A Midsummer Night's Dream 'The Remake'

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).

Hermia’s speech in Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, contains an abundance of dream imagery. She has awoken from a terrible dream after falling asleep in the forest with Lysander. They were lost and tired so they decided to rest. Lysander wanted to sleep beside her but, she refused since they are not yet married and while they slept Puck applied a love potion on Lysander’s eyes thinking he was Demetrius. Lysander wakes and is repulsed by the sight of Hermia and never wants to see her again because he is now in love with Helena. Hermia awakes from her terrible dream and retells it thinking that Lysander is nearby listening. Then she realizes that he is not there and she does not see him anywhere. Hermia expresses the sentiment that she will find Lysander or she will surely die. She stated,

A Midsummer’s Night Dream is a romantic comedy that Shakespeare had created in the sixteenth century. All the events that happen in the play and the movie are happening around the wedding of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, former Queen of the Amazons.

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare is a story about love. This is a story about 6 main characters that make stupid decisions and do stupid things for love. Shakespeare shows how being in love can make people, lie/break promises, make ugly seem beautiful, and act foolishly/recklessly.

Brelby Theatre Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream really brought magic to life. The story of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream follows the lives of Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, Lysander as they sort out their romantic lives. Meanwhile, Titania and Oberon, the King and Queen of fairies fight over a young boy. Their servant, Puck, helps everyone figure out what they want. Also, a theatre group prepares a show to perform for the wedding of Hippolyta and Theseus.

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.

The role of love is introduced as a dominant theme in many of Shakespeare’s plays, but specifically in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Throughout the play, Shakespeare mocks the nature of love as he shows his main characters’ - Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius - struggle through difficult conflicts to ultimately be with the one they love. Although the course of their love did not go accordingly, the audience comes to find that love ultimately conquers all at the end of the play. Love’s definition can generally mean “an intense feeling of deep affection”; this definition of love is just one out of many as Shakespeare suggests that there seems to be various perceptions demonstrated by the actions of his characters. Although the force of

Written during the Elizabethan era where gender roles played an important part in society and relationships, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare portrays the interaction between both sexes, and the women’s response to the expectation of such norms. Although the characters: Hippolyta, Hermia, Helena, and Titania, are portrayed as objects (both sexual and material) contingent upon their male lovers, they are also given empowerment.

When A Midsummer Night’s Dream begins it has all the making of a tragedy. The father who refuses to let her daughter wed the man she is in love with, who instead orders her to marry a man who he sees fit. Hermias father wants her killed for disobeying her. The mention of death is also

Written in the mid 1590’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of William Shakespeare’s most delightful and eccentric pieces of work (The Life of William Shakespeare). While some of Shakespeare’s contemporaries disregarded the play as “insipid” and “ridiculous”, this romantic comedy has been successful in the theater from its first production to the present day” (Worthen 186). Shakespeare lived during the Elizabethan age, and during this era, learning and literature were thriving in London under Queen Elizabeth’s rule (The Elizabethan Age). The culture and conventions of Shakespeare’s time surface through his choice of characterization and plot. For example, many of the characters in the play distinctly represent English craftsperson’s whose names indicate their skill and position in society - Bottom the weaver and Starveling the tailor, for example. Such depiction “…roots the play firmly in Shakespeare’s contemporary culture, as does the folkloric background embodied in the fairies (Cobweb, Mustardseed), and in the characterization of the sprightly Puck…a familiar figure of English folklore” (Worthen 186). Furthermore, the play reveals the revolutionary insolence of young lovers against arranged relationships/marriages, which was a common imposition in Shakespeare’s time. Despite the fact that England was ruled by a female monarch, women remained powerless over the direction of their lives. This play illustrates the patriarchal paradigm of domination and submission which

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 three friends waiting for the play to begin. We took our seats that were four rows from the front of the balcony I felt that our seats were pretty good since we were more or less close to the stage. The lights finally dimmed and the opera began.

Shakespeare has many subplots that are included in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he identifies the workers in creating a play in Act one called Pyramus and Thisbe for the Dukes wedding Shakespeare added this subplot because I think it enhances the audience’s understanding to become more aware of the theme and characters. I sense it makes people connect more to what is happening in the play as well it reveals more depth of what is occurring in each scene. I think subplots are important In this play because it allows readers to question how the plot is formed, as well to understand the structure that situates Shakespeare and the different inventive process of his work, it makes the play more interesting and is a different way to

To conclude, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” can be related to many experiences in life, like the weather in St. John’s; it is unpredictable and often deceitful on the inside. Shakespearean plays show the rollercoaster of young lovers falling in love often instantaneous, and their falling out of love. Hermia and Lysander both go through challenging times before they could be with each

William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was directed by Kirsten Brant and performed at San Jose States University Theatre. The play takes place in the late 1950s from the eyes of world famous Belgian artist Rene Magritte who is known for his pop-art images illustrating common objects in uncommon settings. This assuredly helps projects the idea of illusion vs reality within the storyline of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The main action of the play consists of several love triangles consisting of four lovers that run into the woods, a lovers quarrel between the fairy king and fairy queen while a group of students rehearsing a play seem to get caught in the middle of it all. The main characters of the play were Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia and

A Midsummer Night 's Dream is a play about love. All of its action—from the escapades of Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena in the forest, to the argument between Oberon and Titania, to the play about two lovelorn youths that Bottom and his friends perform at Duke Theseus 's marriage to Hippolyta—are motivated by love. But A Midsummer Night 's Dream is not a romance, in which the audience gets caught up in a passionate love affair between two characters. It 's a comedy, and because it 's clear from the outset that it 's a comedy and that all will turn out happily, rather than try to overcome the audience with the exquisite and overwhelming passion of love, A Midsummer Night 's Dream invites the audience to laugh at the way the passion of love can make people blind, foolish, inconstant, and desperate. At various times, the power and passion of love threatens to destroy friendships, turn men against men and women against women, and through