Examples Of Control In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream involves a lot of the idea of agency and choosing whether to listen to voices of authority and lose your freedom, or to do what you believe you should do at the risk of losing everything . The plot opens up many opportunities for characters to demonstrate agency. Many characters are strong and demonstrate agency throughout the play, such as Hermia and Lysander. Others only show agency for part of the play, such as Titania. The play shows that when the power in the play is being abused, the characters that choose to have agency and strength end up being more successful at the end.

In his comedic play, A Midsummers Night Dream (1595), William Shakespeare utilizes the enchanting adventures of young Athenian lovers and a group of low-class rudimentary actors and their shared experiences with supernatural creatures to portray the opportunity of being in command of their destiny. By presenting conflicts to these three diverse realms, Shakespeare allows these characters to connect despite their hierarchical distinctions to reveal their determination to conquer their adversity. He uses dramatic irony, metaphor, and symbolism to heighten the audience's awareness of their self-determination and their firm control on their future. Shakespeare inspires the public by instilling in them that despite their challenging circumstances, they can still be masters of their own fate, bestowing a feeling of newfound hope and freewill.

Sometimes having control can go another way which could be happiness. The play A midsummer night’s dream is a example of this like how Hippolyta and Theseus both take control in confessing their love to each other and that leads to them getting married. “‘Now, fair Hippolyta, Our nuptial hour draws on apace. Four happy days bring in another moon’”. (I.i.1-3) You can tell by reading this quote that there is happiness in their voice and happiness by tracking the days till their wedding. This is how gaining control can lead to happiness by two people’s love for eachother like Theseus and Hippolyta. Also in the movie She’s the man at the end Viola tells the truth and they all forgive each other which makes everybody happy.

Exerting the type of power that is influenced by malicious intentions can cause one to make decisions that are not beneficial to others. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is written within a time period and setting that favors men instead of woman. In other words, men have all the authority to control the events that occur in their own lives as well as the lives of others whom are considered insignificant. The plot displays the catalysts that ignite many characters’ desire for control that is misused by higher status people. Shakespeare’s use of characterization demonstrates how the wanting of control causes the characters to act irrationally through the misuse of power. Shakespeare’s use of setting, plot and characterization causes the ordeals

In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to follow her father’s orders to marry Demetrius and instead, demands to stay with Lysander. To act on the situation, Egeus appeals to the duke, Theseus, to force his daughter to marry Demetrius. Turning to Hermia, Theseus then tells her:

People come up with contradictory answers when they try to describe love. Love lasts forever between two people whom fate matches together. Love changes like the tide; it spreads any direction on a whim as one gleans new information about the object of his or her affection. Some people say they control their own emotions; they allow themselves feel what they want to feel. Yet others say free will does not apply to emotions, love in particular, and that everyone lives without knowledge of what can appear just around the corner. In the Elizabethan era romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare uses hilariously absurd situations to attempt to explain human behavior in the face of love, to prove that love turns people into complete fools when they fall for someone else.

For example, Egeus stated, “Since she belongs to me, I can do what i want with her- as the law says: I can either make her marry Demetrius or have her killed”( I.i.ll.41-43). This demonstrates that Egeus wants Hermia do what he wants, and since Hermia was so in love with Lysander, she decided to plan something, she planned to escape to the forest and that way Lysander and her can get married. The law states that she must follow her father’s wishes. Hermia refuses to the law and the law decides to give her until the wedding to decide whether to get married or die. Lysander tells Egeus and Theseus that Helena is in love with Demetrius and that she wants to marry him. Helena is so in love with Demetrius that she is very jealous, because Demetrius who she loves, is going to marry Hermia. Hermia gets annoyed with Helena’s attitude and decides to tell her the plan Lysander and her have. Hermia also tells Helena not to reveal the plan, but Helena thinks that if she tells Demetrius the plan he would change his mind and would

Have you ever been pulled over by a police officer? Or been told what to do by a boss at work? If you have and you do what the person asks then that person has succeeded in controlling you. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, control is a major theme. Within this play there are many characters that are able to control others and there are people that are controlled. The play is about Hermia, an Athenian lady, who wants to marry her true love, Lysander, but can not because her father is forcing her to marry a man she doesn’t love. Another manipulative character in this play is Oberon, the Fairy King. He puts a magic love spell on three of the characters throughout the play. A character

Have you ever been in a situation where you tried to control someone to get your way but the complete opposite happens. A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, is an example of control because each character tries to gain control to get what they want. One of the characters in the play is Egeus who tries to control his daughter, Hermia, into marrying Demetrius but she doesn’t love him, she loves Lysander. He is to blame, because he is the reason why this whole conflict even began. Due to this I believe that the case is made that it is not possible to control others.

Control is the power to influence or direct a person’s behavior or a course of events. There is a story by William Shakespeare, who wrote a lot of plays. One of the plays he wrote is called Macbeth. Macbeth is a Scottish General and the Thane of Cawdor, he’s a powerful man and also a brave soldier. He is led to the wicked thoughts by the Three Weird Sisters.

The theme, fate vs. free will, occurs multiple times in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Fate vs. free will, occurs in Acts, One, Two, Three, Four, and Five. Shakespeare uses the magic of fairies, or character to influence situations and people. The fairies take away free will on multiple occasions, which creates conflict or a comical tone during scenes. Few occurrences of free will take place in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Firstly, Eques will not allow Hermia to marry Lysander. Hermia loves Lysander, but Eques, her father, disapproves of Lysander. Next, Puck, a magical fairy, influences multiple characters throughout the play. Characters include, Lysander, Demetrius, Bottom, and Titania. These characters lose free will and are all influenced

Theseus only allows Hermia three options: to die, to obey her father’s wishes and wed Demetrius or to become a nun. The law was is an obstacle because it prevents Hermia and Lysander from being together.

Hermia lived in a male-dominated society hence her father had the authority to do with her as he likes. Friendly Love This type of love exists between friends could have developed over a period of time and it can exist between different kinds of people.

By using Egeus, Shakespeare shows that it is insoluble to control others. In act 1 scene 2 lines 41-44 it says “[c]onsent to

Hermia is recognized as an inferior character due to her fathers commands-Egeus. Hermia endeavours to get Egeus to give permission for Lysander and herself to get married. However, he responds with a rational answer, giving her two choices: “Consent to marry with Demetrius…” “…or to her death, according to our laws…” (Shakespeare 1:1 40,44). This passage stats how Hermia is given the option to marry Demetrius or to be killed by her fathers request. Also, it describes that this act is legal and right in the laws of the Athenians as Egeus mentions. This means that women throughout the town are forced to do what their fathers say. Which proves that woman are powerless and males are given the role of superiority, this makes the society unjust. Hermia is shown as powerless towards what