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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’S FEMALE CHARACTERS In William Shakespeare 's play ‘A Midsummer Night 's Dream, ' women in the society are depicted to possess some limitations that limit their being while others are depicted to possess strengths that make them achieve in life. The world around which women live is full of limiting factors, factors that hinder the full expression of women’s interests. Examples of these situations are when Hermia’s father wanted…

Introduction There are various types of love portrayed in the writings of William Shakespeare in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are several forms of love depicted in the play, including parental love, forced love, romantic love, as well as jealousy to name a few. Early in the play, the character Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.1.134), this theme carries through the remaining scenes of the play as various sets of characters undergo a series of trials…

love is rarely harmonious, and is often susceptible to lack of reason and sense. Unrequited love is a tragically universal theme experienced by most that cruelly targets its victims with little discretion. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theme of love’s uncontrollable power is reflected through a metaphor mouthed by an emotion-blinded Helena after she follows Demetrius to find Lysander and Hermia in the woods during Act Two, Scene One: “You draw me, you hard-hearted…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Transitions of The Court and The Forest A transition is defined as the passage from one scene to another with the effects of music or other sound effects. Transitions are an art form in themselves and actually offer some insight into the two completely different worlds of love depicted in Shakespeare’s play. In Peter Hall’s film version of the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he uses transitions to differ between the unbending and strict truths of the…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is about 2 lovers Hermia and Lysander that run away into the woods. They run away because Hermia’s dad wants her to marry Demetrius who follows them into the woods, but Hermia doesn’t want to marry Demetrius. Helena, Hermia’s friend loves demetrius into the woods. Fairies see the arguments and stuff and try to fix it but make it worse by making the wrong people fall in love. They end up fixing it and get who wants to love each other, to love each other. I think that…

First, I would like to start off saying that Shakespeare’s plays aren’t all bad. I mean, they can have some interesting stuff in them. And this is the case for a Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sure, it has some interesting stuff in it, but it’s mostly bad. Well, it’s not necessarily bad, but it’s boring. And when I say boring, I mean boring. There were some pretty good parts, though. Like when Demetrius falls in love with Helena from a love potion. Or when the two stories come together and make…

Controlling another's actions may be wrong but all in all you can get what you want by doing it. Control is a reoccurring topic in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. In A Midsummer Night's Dream the two character’s Demetrius and Oberon both use their ability to control others and are even controlled by each other. Oberon is the king of the fairy world, he puts a spell on his wife, Titania. The spell will make her fall in love with the first thing she sees when she wakes up, he…

My Experience: A Mid(Winter) Night’s Dream On November 16, 2016 at 8pm, I attended a play entitled A Mid(Winter) Night’s Dream. Since I myself know very little about shakespearean plays, I walked in expecting a dramatic, serious play, but was shook to realize that it was actually a hilarious comedy. I brought a friend to watch the play with me, and even she was saying how much she loved it while walking out of the theatre. Not only was the play overall remarkable, but it also showed many lessons…

and reinforces boundaries –albeit unstable boundaries– informs the failures of love. Moreover, boundaries and expectations that reinforce constructs of concepts exemplify an overarching insecurity towards love in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. One way to examine how love fails is by looking at the way Shakespeare presents the synthesizing of concepts and boundaries. Thus, one might look at the player’s representation of Pyramus and Thisbe –“ ‘A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus/ And…

Written sometime between 1590 and 1597, Shakespeare wrote, what is now labeled as, one of Shakespeare’s most famous and original comedy. In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Shakespeare uses forbidden love juxtaposed with arranged marriages to demonstrate that “the course of true love never did run smooth,” (1.1.134). This story develops in Athens, where Hermia loves and wants to marry Lysander, but Hermia’s father, Egeus, does not approve of Lysander and wants Hermia to marry Demetrious. It is…