A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Why are you grown so rude? What change is this, / Sweet love?” (Shakespeare 2.3.272-273) Hermia responds to Lysander’s change in feelings caused by a love potion. Hernia is a static character while Lysander is dynamic in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In this play written by Shakespeare, there are many characterizations, dramatic techniques, and themes. Likewise, playwright Henrik Ibsen used many of the same techniques in A Doll’s House. One prominent technique used by both playwrights is…

Being clever and proud of oneself is healthy, but an egotistic nature and slyness is not. In William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck, a fairy and servant of Oberon, exhibits these traits. He is self-centered and loves to make a joke out of others by fooling them. Through Puck’s speech and actions, he can be characterized as mischievous and arrogant. Puck is displayed as mischievous through his actions done on other characters. When Puck is communicating with an unnamed fairy, the…

not everyone will agree with your love decisions and try to put blocks in your way. When this occurs, we have what’s called tunnel vision and our eyes are only set on the prize. Hints the question: What is everyone after? In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare this play has a lot of different branches leading in many directions but they all lead back to the same tree. We see people struggle to get what they all are after. In the beginning of the play two people are…

A Midsummer’s Nightmare Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream suggests that its relationships are happy ones, but this suggestion is complicated. In fact, the interplay between each of the couples indicates a nefarious quality present in all these relationships. This sinister quality can become even undeniably present in productions of this play. Brown writes that while scholars cannot consider any performance to be an authoritative adaptation, every performance brings interpretative…

“The course of true love never did run smooth,” and neither is it near perfect. Love is stupidity with a smile, blind trickery, and spontaneous thoughts (1.1.134). Throughout William Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” he portrays the theme of love through his characters as erratic, blind, and foolish. Shakespeare was not the slightest bit modest when illustrating how inconsistent love is. By speaking through his characters, Hermia and Lysander, Shakespeare demonstrates how…

In Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare wrote a lot of the story about the hardships of love. Sometimes it doesn't always go the way you want, and it can be very confusing and difficult to earn from someone. In the play, Helena does everything she can to get Demetrius to love her when the only girl he wants is Hermia. Lysander and Hermia go through many obstacles and hard times to try and be together. In the beginning, all Demetrius wants to do is to marry Hermia, but that is not her wish. At…

In Act III Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare has Peter Quince, Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Tom Snout, Robin Starveling, and Snug act out of the famous tale of Pyramus and Thisbe. However, he decides to portray the story as a tragic comedy rather than a tragedy. When the actors assign the roles, the story is introduced as a piece of comedy rather than the sad tale of two ill-fated lovers. Then, when the playlet is performed, the audience’s comments mock it. Finally, Bottom’s…

manifest itself in many ways in the theatre. In many of Shakespeare’s plays gender is shown through marriage or love and often not the love people think is acceptable or that ends the way the characters would like. The plays Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare both end with the main characters paired off into couples. In these relationships Shakespeare has created couples that will ultimately be unhappy due to longing for a person they can’t have or being…

Can magic be used for good, or could it be used to benefit one person? In the book A Midsummer Night’s Dream there is a lot of magic that comes into play. Oberon and Puck use a magic that makes people love the first thing they see. Their magic effects the four lovers along with Titania. The magic is used for their own amusement. Puck and Oberon use magic for good and bad because they want to be the centers of control, and they use it to get what they want. Control is a big part of…

In his play A Midsummer Night 's Dream, William Shakespeare explores the various themes of opposition, and the effect they have on his characters. One such theme is that of duty as opposed to desire. Duty is a moral or legal obligation, an action or task that one is required to perform. While desire is a strong want or longing for something. The first example of duty as opposed to desire comes within the first monolog of the play. Theseus, the Duke of Athens expresses his frustration of having…