A Midsummer Night's Dream Essays

Midsummer Night’s Dream is a Shakespearian comedic play with three separate, converging story lines. The story lines consist of a love feud, chaos in the fairy kingdom, and a group of struggling actors in Athens. The love arc consists of four lovers: Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena. Lysander and Demetrius both love Hermia and Hermia wants to be with Lysander, meanwhile, Helena hopes to regain Demetrius’s affection. The fairy arc is a feud between king Oberon and Queen Titania; the two accuse

A Midsummer Night’s Dream has several themes but there is one that stands out to me. There are many conflicts throughout the play but a majority of them are caused by one character. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare brilliantly displays how love is never clear cut by his use of Puck’s character (who is always muddling everything up). *ADD QUOTES* (after every line break, you need a slash) Puck is a character that is meant for disaster. He is in the story to be a comedic relief

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Romantic Comedy Written by William Shakespeare in the year 1595, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of William Shakespeare’s featured play’s that utilizes elements of comedy. Throughout the play, various forms of comedy are used to captivate the reader, and further immerse him/her in the play to the point where the reader can’t help but to keep reading to find out what happens next. In Acts I, III, and V we see a strong element of character comedy. Character comedy

The distinction between reality and dreams can be a fine line, often confounding our perceptions of what is real and what simply appears to be. Shakespeare’s mystical play A Midsummer Night’s Dream examines this concept as the worlds of law and desire struggle against each other. The four main storylines of the play: the royal wedding, the four lovers, the fairies, and the rude mechanicals quickly become entangled in a mix of magic and love. At the head of this chaos is Puck, the fairy servant who

Does the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream lean toward reality or dreams? There are many ways to look at this play, but one cannot help but wonder if the magic that takes place is meant to be seen as real or just a dream. In the end, the world of dreams wins. The first act begins with a fairly realistic tone as it opens with Theseus and Hippolyta talking. Throughout the play they represent daylight—the mature reality of love. Theseus has just won Hippolyta’s hand in marriage through war. There

The Shakespeare classic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, grabbed my attention when we read through the summer reading list in class. I’ve read Romeo and Juliet in class, and have read Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost on my own time. However, I did not enjoy any of them. When I saw this play on our summer reading list, I decided to try it out. I wanted to see if I really did, or did not, enjoy Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s play is begun is Athens, where Theseus is duke and Egeus is a lord. Hippolyta, the

How the real and the imagined worlds are explored in a Midsummer Night’s Dream. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” written by William Shakespeare in 1595, shows us fantastical elements and a griping narrative that demonstrations the values of both the real and imagined world and what links them together. The play has been read and watched for the four decades. Values are very important in both the real and imagined world. In the real world (Athens) there are values that we would see today such as, following

Andrew Muckle Professor Boots 15 April 2016 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Opera On Saturday April 16th, I attended A Midsummer Night’s Dream, an opera by Benjamin Britten at Boston University. I have never been to an opera before, so I went in wondering if I would enjoy it as much as I enjoy the orchestra. I read a review by Gillian Daniels who said “It’s an opera faithful to the spirit of its material” having me go in with somewhat high expectations (Daniels). I walked into a fairly large theater with

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the supernatural helps to produce both negative and positive outcomes in the play. The supernatural in A Midsummer Night's Dream is represented through the activity of fairies, magic, and gods such as Cupid. The supernatural works to join the imperfect world of mortals while at the same time upholding the dreamlike state of the ideal world. The conflict begins when Oberon punishes his wife, Titania, for not obeying him and refusing to surrender the Indian

A Midsummer Night’s Dream transformed and modernized into the 1960’s certainly wasn’t anything I would’ve dreamt of. On October 24, I attended Diamond Bar High School Theater’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” written by William Shakespeare. The plot of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is about two different couples, Lysander and Hermia (Riley Mawhorter and Chloe Reyes), and Demetrius and Helena (Jonah Martinez and Katarina Avalos), who were all being tricked by fairies. And it’s one of those