A Midsummer Night's Dream

Twin Falls High School performed William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is set in Athens, Georgia around the time 2029. They performed this play in the Roper auditorium and the director was James Haycock. I went to see this play on October 8th, and the performance dates were October 7th-10th. I believe that the purpose of this play was to entertain the audience. A mother that didn't approve of a love and a sister that was jealous introduced the beginning conflict.…

In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Great Chain of Being is a concept demonstrating that everything in the universe has a place in a “divinely planned hierarchal order” (The Great Chain of Being). God is at the top of the hierarchy and it descends, from kings to peasants, to husbands andto wives. All four female characters women break The Great Chain of Being in different ways: Hermia goes against her father’s wishes and runs away with Lysander, Helena seeks after Demetrius…

In Hamlet, Shakespeare only includes two women in the play, they are both close to the main character, Hamlet, who sees both in two completely different ways and therefore treats them differently too, one with cynical love and the other with a regretful hatred. In Hamlet, Hamlet pretends to be crazy because he is plotting against his murderer of an uncle, Claudius, who killed his natural father and married his mother. From the statement of old King Hamlet, about his brother Claudius poisoning…

Jane Fonda said it perfectly, “As an actress you spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.” I’ve always been fond of the performing arts. The stage draws me in. I enjoy exploring methods from Michael Chekhov, like imaginary body, and balance and form. As someone who greatly appreciates the theatre, I feel that it is important to educate others on the difference between a play, and musical. For both a play and musical, dialogue is used to convey the story. Plays…

Christy Chandra Professor Landreth GSI Aileen Liu English 117A Essay #3 8 December 2015 What’s In A Name - “Fair” In A Midsummer Night’s Dream In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it can be noticed that there have been numbers of appearances of the word “fair” that is being uttered by several characters to their targets, such as Hippolyta and Hermia. At the beginning of the play, i encounter the first word “fair” that comes out from Theseus, the Duke of Athens to his fiancee, Hippolyta. Based…

Tasneem Adi Chandler Barton English II 12 February 2018 Dream Theme of Gender Gender tensions arise from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” due to the complicated romantic and familial relationships. At the beginning of the play, a young woman argues and fights her dad over the right to marry the one she loves. Although she was already partnered with her spouse by her father, and if she declines her father’s wish, then she will be exiled or killed. Shakespeare questions some stereotypes about gender…

Throughout the analysis of the play, we thought of some philosophies that we can relate to the play. The philosophies that we can relate to this play are Romanticism, humanism and paroxysm. In humanism, it is about freedom to choose or free will and the power to solve their problems. We can relate humanism to the part where Lysander and Hermia decided that they will run away and live together peacefully. It is shown in this part that the couple fought for their love and they have shown their…

those who have dealt and are dealing with the same thing. It takes the classic battle and develops a new villain, something that is contemporary. Moreover, it uses elements from today's postmodern genre, and the historical work A Midsummer’s Night Dream to portray this conflict. This pushes the idea that fairy tales are constantly evolving, and are typically more than one genre. Furthermore, the setting of the narrative seems to rest on another paradigm; the mind of a parent dealing with a…

Shakespear play A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that consists of a comedy and mostly romance of four lover's that fight to be together which eventually gets the characters into problems. There are many examples of patriarchy throughout the play, the one that stud and persuaded me the most is how man hold all the power over the women, and women are largely excluded from everything. The women on the other hand have no say on the commands that they are given by the man, the women are treated…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by the poet and playwright William Shakespeare(1564-1616), was first published in the Quarto edition in 1600, although it is suggested, that this play was ‘first put on in court in 1595’ (Salgado, 1975: p. 116).Whether this play was made in the early 1580s or later than that, became a controversial matter. Francis Meres’ in his Palladis Tamia Wits Treasury (1598), mentioned A Midsummer Night’s Dream as ‘one of a dozen Shakespeare plays’(Stritmatter, 2006: p.…