A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedic play that was written by William Shakespeare between 1595 and 1596. It is based around four interconnecting plots, all connected to the celebration of the wedding between the Duke of Athens—Theseus and the Queen of the Amazon—Hippolyta. The play is set in the woodland, under the light of the moon. Marriage, courtship and relationships are explored throughout the duration of the play. There are several relationships, love, hate and yearning between the The…

A frame story is a story constituting a frame for another story or a series of other stories. The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is comedy consisting of a frame story and four other concurrent stories. The frame story in the play is of the marriage between Theseus, the duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, the queen of the amazons. The other four stories are: the dispute between Hermia and Egeus; the play, put together by laborers for Theseus’s wedding; the dispute between Oberon and Titania, the king…

Two of the main themes discussed in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are love and magic, and one must reflect on how the two correlate between the main characters. Lysander, Hermia, Helen, Demetrius, and Titania are all greatly affected by the use of magic in this story. They seem to already struggle with developing relationships, and the tricky, unpredictable use of magic is of no help to them. In this essay, I will prove that magic undeniably has a negative effect on love and…

William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a play about the difficulties of love and how magic comes with a price. Puck also known as Robin Goodfellow is Oberon the King of the fairies jester. In this play, Robin Goodfellow or Puck could be a protagonist and an antagonist of this play for the soul fact that he causes all the conflict and he develops everyone. He is a troublemaker in the play because he applies the “love juice” to the wrong Athenians. Therefore, in this paper I am going…

When you are in love, does it alter your perceptions? Well love can make you do reckless and careless things without noticing. In Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it shows comedic scenes, of which involve the love in between characters. In this play, William Shakespeare portrays the foolishness in love, as it induces the impedement of judgement portrayed by the characters: Helena, Lysander and Titania. The lack of judgement caused by love is shown through the Helena, who has…

As i was reading a midsummer night’s dream I came across a bunch of different loves. There is friendship, forced, and romantic love in this novel. They are all from different people that have different reasons and meaning behind them. Love can be either a very amazing thing or a very bad thing depending on what kinda love is brought around you. Friendship love is the kind of love that never can be broken. It is a strong bond that lasts forever. You guys do not have to hang out every night, or…

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a comedic play written by Shakespeare in around 1595 that is about the love complications between Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia. Throughout the play, many things go wrong that disrupts the order. From the use of potions to the conflict between fairy royalty, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has an obvious order vs disorder theme that teaches about Shakespeare’s world and beliefs. The theme of order and disorder can be seen in many instances in the play.…

require the use of a thesaurus or an English teacher to understand, the fundamental ideas of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, are correct in everyday life. Shakespeare’s plays often consider deep questions about law and justice, as well as getting the reader to think about the role that the law has, both in the story, and in real life, which then applies to the English curriculum today. Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there was a law in Athens which gave the citizens, specifically fathers, the…

Ever noticed that there are similarities in Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream? These plays are both tragedies that are written by William Shakespeare. Not only are some of the characters alike, some of the things that happen in the plays are as well. To start off, both plays include some kind of comedy in them. In Romeo and Juliet, the nurse tells her long story about how she raised Juliet because Lady Capulet could not. The nurse refused to stop talking which embarrassed Juliet.…

Let’s start from the very beginning. In the play, Midsummer Night’s Dream, there's some issues among gender equality. But I suppose that was expected from a play that takes place in a time where there was no such thing as gender equality. Now let’s get into some examples of gender inequality! One example of a time where I thought there was an issue in Midsummer Night’s Dream, was when Egeus was forcing Hermia to marry Demetrius, even when she had clearly told him that she wanted to marry…