Midsummer

Shakespeare’s play a Midsummer Night’s Dream takes place in Athens. A woman named Hermia and a man named Lysander want to be married, but the girl’s father refuses and wants Hermia to marry the suitor he chose who was Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia then decide to run away to the woods that surround Athens, where they escape and get married. Along the way there are difficulties in their story. A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s theme is Love, but then it is not love, but the difficulty of love. These…

story. With being the main focus of the story, there becomes responsibilities and pressure put on the protagonist (Protagonist- Examples and Definition of Protagonist). In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Puck and Hermia are the main characters. Puck meets most all of the “duties” that the protagonist in a story. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck is a very powerful creature. With Puck being an elf or goblin, he enjoys playing practical jokes on mortals; however, his name can also align with some…

across. A famous poet that conveys this message is William Shakespeare. In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, four lovers contend each other to show the importance of love. Particularly Lysander and Hermia, who want to marry each other. The quote “The course of true love never did run smooth” is a matter of fact, one of the most important quotes in the play, explain how love has many obstacles. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the obstacle of true love’s course is Egeus. Egeus, Hermia’s father,…

is a magical, mysterious, and mesmerizing feeling. It can be felt all around the world in between many different people, even multiple people, but when multiple people become involved, a lot of contradicting reactions can result. In Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, we can see how multiple love triangles bring drama, humor, and terror to the play. All three reactions create clumps of crazy chaos to the script and lure the reader in. We first see the love triangles appear when Hermia’s…

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, there are two prominent settings with opposing forces that are central to the context of the play. These two different settings explain Shakespeare’s underlying messages and themes that he wanted to convey to his audience. The setting the readers are introduced to first, Athens, is meant to represent the harshness of the real world, while the other main location, the forest, has a more lovable and happier notion. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream,…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written by Shakespeare, is a comedic play about several parties, taking place just outside of the city of Athens. One of the main parties include Oberon the Fairy King, Titania (his wife), and a puck called Robin Goodfellow. Another group of characters incorporates the lovers Hermia and Lysander, and another man and woman named Demetrius and Helena. The third party, composed of several actors named Bottom, Flute, and Snug, plan to perform the play Pyramus and Thisbe…

William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream illustrates the wavering love between characters Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena. Shakespeare highlights that humans are primarily governed by individual emotion, rather than reason. This is very apparent in the passage, at the beginning of Act Five. Theseus states: “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends” (5.1. 4-6). This passage is important because it…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is a comedic play, with a complex plot, that was written for entertainment. In this play Hermia and Lysander are in love, but Hermia is being forced to marry Demetrius, who is loved by Helena. Hermia and Lysander run away, Demetrius and Helena follow them, they all get lost in the woods. The King and Queen of fairies, Oberon and Titania, are in an argument which leads to a love spell being cast on Lysander and Demetrius which causes conflict with…

Midsummer Night’s Dream Control People often like to control people to get some sort of advantage and superiority over others, but that usually ends up causing complications. This is what happens throughout the whole play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Control is something that almost every character in this play wants, but this is only short-term. When one character tries to control another, it always ends up back where it was in the beginning and doesn’t work out. In the…

The word ‘love’ can be strange, beautiful, and can be difficult for people. There are many different types of love to experience. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, shows how love is experienced and demonstrates different types of love. There are many different types of love in this play, such as forced love, romantic love, and parental love. These types of loves will describe the play by William Shakespeare. There are many different types of love shown in William Shakespeare’s…