Midsummer

A Midsummer Night’s Dream a romantic comedy is a full play written by the great William Shakespeare between 1594 and 1595 (Shakespeare 1265). Shakespeare had written this play to only be displayed on stage and only displayed on stage not read. The play is mostly considered romantic comedy and it is about the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, and dramatizes the idea that “the course of true love never did run smooth” (Shakespeare 1265). There are plentiful characters…

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…

In the story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, four young lovers experience hardships when it comes to their love. Hermia and Lysander are in love, but her father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius. Demetrius is in love with Hermia, but despite his feelings, Helena is in love with him. Throughout the story, the lovers have to overcome many conflicts, such as a mishap with a love potion. All of the complications have one thing in common. They all represent that the quote, “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…

the infamous play, Midsummer Night’s Dream, the chracter known as Robin Goodfellow AKA Puck is, against all odds, is the most powerful character in the play. There is no one who has more power and influence than little Puck. Puck is a mischeivous little fellow, and he does indeed find a way to strike fear into people’s hearts, while still being a great guy who is loved throughout the land. Oddly enough, but the fun-sized fairy of Puck is, in fact, feared by the society in Midsummer Night’s…

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…

The course of 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…

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was a groundbreaking play, which expressed an array of themes in a light-hearted, comedic setting. The main theme Shakespeare conveys in this play is the difficulty of love. He conveys this idea of love’s difficulty through the use of comedy and make-believe creatures. This essay will explore that theme, providing evidence of why I believe that it is, in fact, the overriding theme of this play. The theme was not only portrayed in the text; rather, to truly…

Commonly in a comedic play it is said that “all’s well that ends well” in the case of the resolution of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” this is certainly true, the disorder and manipulation caused predominately by is resolved through both Oberon’s guiding wisdom and Puck’s manipulation. There are many happy endings; some of them are more convincing than others, for example Lysander and Hermia’s relationship, would be seen by all audiences as plausible while Demetrius and Helena’s relationship is…

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…