A Midsummer Night's Dream

what it means to be human. What is in our nature to do as humans. Just what lies within the mind of a certain individual, from their dreams to their basic desires. Love, sex, money, companionship and the like are all components to what makes a human an individual. Within Shakespeare’s plays, or fiction as a whole, there is a type of essence that defines a story’s…

characterization and plot instances that make you question just how normal these couples are. When taking a look at the couples in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and briefly at Othello, the complexity of the relationships shows that nothing is quite as it seems. The first couples we’re going to be looking into are those from A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Titania and Oberon, Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius. Titania and Oberon, the queen and king of the fey, possess…

Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been analyzed using nearly every form of critical theory available. The introduction to the Arden edition of the play is the best representation of the many types of criticism, and their varied topics, that have been used when addressing the play. The play has been read as a New Historicist piece, a queer piece, a feminist piece, and many more, but many of these readings overlook where their analyses stem from. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the…

Throughout the Elizabethan era women were made to obey men. A perfect representation of this is in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream where the playwright William Shakespeare depicts the relationship roles between men and women in everyday society. As Lisa Walters writes, “In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Athens is a patriarchal domain ruled by Theseus, where the ‘father should be as a god’ and Amazons are conquered and married” (157). Shakespeare’s play demonstrates the unfair power and…

compels them to act in the most extreme of ways, ending their lives so that they can be with the one they love in death. Additionally, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare explores how love can defy all logic and how it is practically a drug, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is wing 'd Cupid painted blind (A Midsummer Night 's Dream, 1.1). Shakespeare even introduces a humorous display of how love is blind when he has a beautiful fairy princess fall in love…

Visual Learning and Literature Throughout history, literature has always been a gateway for people to expand their knowledge and their imaginations. However, some pieces of literature are hard to understand, no matter how high your reading comprehension, there are important pieces that may be missing from their understanding. Meaning, one could only just be scratching the surface of a piece of literature. Therefore, one cannot simply read something, one has to immerse themselves in the…

for the role of Hermia in your upcoming production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare. While I may be young, I believe that my understanding of Hermia’s character and the conflicts she faces in this play make me well suited to play this part, as with this knowledge and my experience I would be able to effectively portray a generally strong but complex character like Hermia. In the beginning of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” William Shakespeare shows that Hermia is…

These two lovebirds have always been in love with each other, so much that they decided to elope one day and get married in the woods without anyone knowing. Lysander had a strong love for Hermia, but a love potion was accidentally placed on his eyes causing him to fall in love with Helena and started having a strong dislike towards Hermia. Hermia and Lysander’s relationship represents true love. The course of their love doesn’t run smooth, as stated by Lysander “The course of true love never…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Theme of Love’s Difficulty Shakespeare in the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ looks at how the characters fell in love with other characters who appeared to be beautiful to them. One thing that stood out about the kind of love that the characters shared in the play were that it faced a lot of challenges. The idea of Shakespeare in this context was that people who at one point appear to fall involve in their lives might later seem to be repellent and unattractive. The…

Shakespeare’s readers learn many things through his work and the literary and dramatic devices he used shows them many lessons and techniques to improve our writing. His plays teach us ways we can be a good citizen, thinker, and writer. In Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, I learned that citizens are the ones who have the power to decide who is trustworthy. Whether we are choosing a leader for the community or not, we need to know who can be trusted. Shakespeare shows us the difference or…