Symbolism In Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare

Did you know that another name for Puck ( Oberon's right-hand man) was Robin Good-fellow but to some of the meaner fairies. He was known as a Hobgoblin because of his bizarre figure. Puck the mischievous, quick-witted fairy that makes many of the play’s events relevant to the modern world. Such as, the uncanny ability to cause mischief and mayhem with the common folk of Athens and especially the main characters of the story. However, there is also many issues and problems with the characters in Midsummer Night's Dream. For example, Puck arguably the most important character in Midsummer Night's Dream, has little character development and there is no true protagonist. Even though many people thought that Puck should be one of the main protagonists of this story.

In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream Titania and Helena is what Helena was foreshadowing when she says “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And/Therefore is winged Cupid painted blind” (234-235). They show this when she loved bottom even though he was an ass and Helena loved Demetrius even though he was a jerk. For example when Titania says to an ass “What, wilt thou hear some music my sweet love?”(4.1124-125). She was catering to Bottom and loved him even though he was an ass.

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2 Scene 2, Shakespeare uses metaphors and personification to show how love affected Lysander's ability to think clearly. Heres a metaphor from the story "Who will not change a raven for a dove?" Line 2.2.120 This metaphor compares a raven to Helena and a dove to Hermia, saying who wouldn't choose Helena over Hermia because that should be basic logic. This statement is unreasonable because now since Lysander has been put under a spell he's been blinded from what love is really about, and now under the spell he thinks all it is is logic to choose Helena over Hermia because to him now Helena is the best logical option.

verses reality. The flower’s love juice is causing lovers to blindly fall in love, with the

Analysis of humor through the use of figurative language in A Midsummer Night's Dream. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s most famous comedy and one of the world's premier comedies, prominently displays figurative language to convey absurd drollery. For instance, Shakespeare's considerable use of both dramatic and situational irony creates an element of ludicrous levity where the scene's outcome is completely contrary to prior understanding. Moreover, in the case of dramatic irony, Shakespeare imposes a comedic dearth of knowledge in which actions are misunderstood, producing a farcical outcome of profoundly comedic proportions. Furthermore, both diction and characterization are extensively used as devices for humor, often paired with

Shakespeare’s usage of metaphor and simile in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is best understood as an attempt to provide some useful context for relationships and emotions, most often love and friendship, or the lack thereof. One example of such a usage is in Act 3, Scene 2 of the play. Here, the two Athenian couples wake up in the forest and fall under the effects of the flower, thus confusing the romantic relationships between them. Hermia comes to find her Lysander has fallen for Helena. Hermia suspects that the two have both conspired against her in some cruel joke, and begins lashing out against Helena. She says “We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, / Have with our needles created both one flower, / Both one sampler sitting on one cushion, / Both warbling of one song, both in one key; / As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, / Had been incorporate. So we grew together, / Like a double cherry, seeming parted; / But yet a union in partition / Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: / So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; / Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, / Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.” (Shakespeare 2.3.206-13). Shakespeare writes this list of vibrant metaphors to establish the prior relationship between these two characters and to make it evident how affected Helena is by this unexpected turn of events, as well as to add a greater range of emotion to the comedy, thereby lending it more literary and popular appeal.

Shakespeare wrote the play a Midsummer Night’s and he added irony into his play. He has many of the different kinds of irony in his play dramaticl, verbal. He uses them through his characters Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena, and others. In the story they characters love gets all mixed up when the fairy king Oberon uses a flower to change who the men love and he also uses it on his wife Titania and she falls in love with a donkey man Bottom.

In William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" many symbols, imagery, allusions and dramatic irony are portrayed throughout the play. The collage helped to showcase the major idea's and connections to the play with the use of the dramatic elements.

Shakespeare was an avid and sophisticated reader of Ovidian myth. Additionally, he was a metamorphic artist and clever writer who must have been well-informed about the classics to borrow inspiration from numerous classical sources. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a typical example of Shakespeare’s comedies that dramatize the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. It emphasizes on the conflict between social convention and love. The poem has no particular written source but is inspired by various sources and allusions derived from Greek and Roman history, poetry, and drama.

Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular play. The comedy is famous with fancy weave motifs of ancient mythology, literature and English folklore. It gives the impression of a completely unique combination of real and fantastic, funny and serious, poetry and humor. In this play there are two main lines – real and fantastic. Classical ideals are valued above contemporary folk narratives.

A Misummer Night’s Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare. In this play there are multiple themes however the most evident theme is love. Why is love an evident theme? It is an evident theme because the play commences with two Greek mythology characters─ the Duke of Athens, Theseus and Amazon queen Hippolita planning their marriage. However as Theseus plans his marriage he has to help Egeus persuade his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius. Unfortunately both the Duke and Egeus failed to persuade Hermia into marrying Demetrius so the fairies (another set of characters. The fairies in this play consisted of goddess of chastity and Queen of fairies, Titania and King of fairies Oberon and his assistance Robin Goodfellow) decide

Understanding A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare. The play is about a group of young adults that have fallen in love and the king and queen, as well as the king and queen of the fairies of the fairies attempting to make the right people fall in love while trying to get their marriage back together. After accidentally making the wrong people fall in love.

An example of this is the moon, the symbolism of which is reflected in the title, the midnight setting and inspires open air performances. Purpose-built playhouses served as a stage in Elizabethan times and were located outside the City, and ‘where the central acts of A Midsummer Night’s Dream take place: a location beyond authorized boundaries, where game-playing and role-playing are freely possible’ (Hackett, 2000, p.33). The moon is symbolic of time, chastity and sexual desire. Its importance within this extract is emphasised with the use of both alliteration ‘The moon, methinks’ (Line 170) and personification, ‘looks with wat’ry eye,’ (Lines 179). This personification of the moon is then linked by repetition to the personification of a flower, a symbolic reference to the female, ‘And when she [the moon] weeps, weeps every little flower / Lamenting some enforced chastity’ (Lines 180-1). It is a reference to Theseus’s warning to Hermia in Act 1, Scene 1, that if she refuses to marry Demetrius she will ‘endure the livery of a nun’ (REF NORTON HERE). Another example of symbolic meaning in this extract is Titania. The presentation of her as a woman of high status and importance is reflective of Queen Elizabeth. A critic of Elizabethan writing, Louis Montrose, argues that ‘moments of textual disclosure also illuminate the interplay between gender politics in the Elizabethan

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play that utilises comedy to convey complex ideas that are seen throughout the play, concepts like the jealousy Helena has towards Hermia, Egeus’s strong hostility towards Hermia and Lysander’s relationship and unrequited love. He uses comical tools like unconscious irony and hyperbole to turn rather difficult topics into humorous representations of them. Events like how Puck thinks Titania had fallen in love with him, not knowing he was bearing the head of an ass, are portrayed in a humorous way so the viewer understands the meaning, but sees it as a light- hearted narrative. Shakespeare carefully uses comedy that does not overpower the meaning of the play, but puts a completely different perspective on some of the themes.

The story of A Midsummer Night's Dream was mainly about love and its abnormal dealings. In the play, Shakespeare tried to show that love is unpredictable, unreasonable, and at times is blind. The theme of love was constantly used during the play and basically everything that was said and done was related to the concept of love and its unpredictable ness. Shakespeare made all of the characters interact their lives to be based on each other’s. At first, everything was very confusing, and the characters were faced with many different problems. In the end, however, they were still able to persevere and win their true love, the love they were searching for in the first place.