A Midsummer Night's Dream

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare there are many symbols and key words that are emphasized throughout the play. A key word that comes up a thirty-four times is fair. This word is used to describe not only people, but it is also used to describe how someone is treated and it could be either an adjective or a noun. The way Shakespeare uses the word fair is not like the way it is used now. Most people use it to describe whether or not they were treated right, where as Shakespeare uses it…

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”(Shakespeare,91) A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set both in Athens and also in the forest. Hermia is the daughter of Egeus, a nobleman from Athens, who approves of her marrying Demetrius. Hermia is not in love with Demetrius and wants to marry Lysander. The problem is that Egeus does not approve. This play demonstrates many different types of love, including forced love, romantic love and friendship love. Egeus, tells the Duke of Athens, Theseus, to carry out…

reaction, a rush of dopamine in the human brain. In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream the psychological lens reveals how, many characters acted out in psychological distress due to a mix of love and dreams which form a potent “magic” or drug that can result in self discovery when love is blind and becomes revealed. Love is like a drug, especially in this tale of lovers. Dreams are a window to the soul and this dream could be a window into the audience's soul as well as shakespeare's…

"The course of genuine romance never ran smooth," remarks Lysander of adoration's complexities in a trade with Hermia (Shakespeare I.i.136). In spite of the fact that the play A Midsummer Night's Dream absolutely manages the trouble of sentiment, it isn't viewed as a genuine romance story like Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare, as he unfurls the story, deliberately separates the gathering of people from the feelings of the characters so he can personification the anguish and weights persevered by…

Journey of Love In a person’s life they encounter many different people and they experience several types of love. As is the case in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are numerous types of love in this play. We start off with the love between Theseus and Hippolyta, at one time meeting in war and now discussing their wedding. From there we are introduced to Egeus, Hermia, Demetrius and Lysander. The different types of love in this group range from parental, true and even possessive…

the end, the protagonist must find happiness for a play to really be classified as a “comedy”. But what if the happiness of a protagonist is only created through the use of magic unwillingly forced onto the character? In Shakespeare 's “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” the character Demetrius is forced into loving Helena due to the faerie king Oberon’s magic spell. While Helena, who views Demetrius as her true love, get her “happy ending” once the two are wed, Demetrius’ side of things is less than…

The author uses settings, imagery, and symbolism to clearly express his theme of love. A social and political comedy by Shakespeare, deeply rooting to love as humans ultimate weakness and downfall. Setting dictates the mood, the way the story is portrayed, as well as the way the reader connects with the characters. Many times throughout the play fairies cast the potions upon the Athenians to control their love. Yet every time it is determined by who they see when the wake up first thing in the…

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” This is a quote said by Lysander in the play Midsummer Nights Dream. In this quote, Lysander is describing how love is not always easy. There will be road bumps and difficulties to lead to happiness. In the play, there are many situations where love does not run smooth. There are three couples that are good examples. The couples being Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena, and Titania and Oberon. The first couple that demonstrates this quote…

In A Mid Summer Nights dream. perception v.s. reality becomes a major aspect of the play because of the contrast of the woods and the city. In the woods there is much deception form the characters and fairies to make the lovers perceive love for each other but unwilling love. The city is full of chaos and people telling each other what they need to do, but un the city the lovers still understood how they felt and had some sort of control over their emotions. Egeus is trying to force his daughter…

Did you know Hermia being tortured by a law? Well, The Duke of Athens, Theseus, declared this law when him and Hermia’s father were discussing issues to each other. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Hermia was affected harshly by the her father and the Athenian Law. Hermia was treated unfairly by her father and the Athenian law because she either had to marry Demetrius, be killed, or become a nun. The first reason Hermia’s choices were unfair is because she had to marry…