Essay on Dreams

amazing story that is William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Each one brings a new aspect of and an air of magic. They all are able to be their own stories, but together create a masterpiece that has survived throughout the years. By way of love, magic, and the fairies is how they all combine. Dr. James Olson once said that “Mixing sprites and lovers, fantasy and reality, William Shakespeare’s work is truly A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”1 The fairies are a major part of the play. “The…

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck serves as Shakespeare's voice in the play. He is no regular character, shown by the fact he is the only single person in the play, taking him out of both the fairy and mortal world. Puck not only uses the characters to his liking, but also his audience. Puck is the mischievous sprite who serves Oberon, the Fairy King. Puck or Robin Goodfellow is a sprite or fairy who plays annoying tricks on people or helps them out with their chores…

In the play “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” written by William Shakespeare, all the lovers are swapped around exceedingly that they seem almost interchangeable. The similarities and confusion of love between characters causes love itself to seem like an illusion. The characters should have been clearly distinguished to make the play comprehensive, therefore, characters are not wrongly identified. Shakespeare should have used a technique in which the audience would be able to make not only…

Shakespeare uses marriage frequently throughout his plays, and very few of them turn out well, or if the marriages do work out, an abundance of effort must be done to achieve this. In Elizabethan time, people married and the women served the men, This was simply how life functioned. However, in Shakespeare’s plays, does he show that this is a bad idea? Shakespeare’s was hastily married and this could have resulted in a substandard marriage, this certainly could have also affected Shakespeare’s…

“The American Dream,” states historian James Truslow Adams, “is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” It is known as the common goal amongst many that thrive in America; although, that is not always the case. In the years since Adams himself first coined the term, opposing sides have grown to relate the American Dream with the corruption that follows its devastating failure,…

To understand “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”, one needs to know that there are three worlds happening in this play; there is the human world with the Athenians, the Fairy world, and a “play within a play” that the Mechanicals put on. The action starts when Theseus tells Hermia she has four days to decide whether she is going to marry Demetrius, become a nun or be put to death. While this is happening in the human world the fairy king, Oberon wants a child that the fairy queen, Titania is raising.…

Control is a major theme in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare. Helena likes Demetrius but he likes Hermia. Hermia’s dad, Egeus, is making her marry Demetrius but she doesn’t want too, she likes Lysander.I believe that is possible to control other person’s actions because they use their power over someone and prays on their weakness. It’s supporting because Egeus has the right to control Hermia because Egeus is Hermia’s Father. Egeus controls Hermia by making her marry Demetrius…

In “A MidSummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare is a romantic play about love conflicts between to “couples”. Lysander is a young man who is deeply in love with Hermia but another man named Demetrius loves her as well. Helena, Hermia’s sister loves Demetrius. Hermia is decided that she wants to marry Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. They went threw a moments of confusion because a bad character named Puck applied a love potion on Lysander's eyes which made him fall in…

The final use of the word tongue occurs in Puck’s final soliloquy in which he breaks the fourth wall and addresses the audience, reminding them that if they are unsatisfied with the events, it is merely a play--“but a dream” (V.i.428)--and not reality. The play and its contents are fake (emphasized by acknowledgement of the audience), much like the love depicted within it is. Puck remarks, “Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue” (V.i.433), suggesting that by ending the play now, the audience and…

In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Robin Goodfellow, also known as puck, is more than just another character. Puck is known from English mythology known for creating mischief, and Shakespeare makes a fitting character to the name. Puck is an important character in the play. What Puck is known for plays a big role. He creates tension among other characters, and restores the peace. Puck’s mythological origins are played well in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Puck creates mischief and…