Comparing Ibsen's House 'And A Midsummer Night'

In his critical analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, G. K. Chesterton introduces the idea that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not only the greatest piece of literature produced by Shakespeare, but also the greatest psychological analysis. On the surface, A Midsummer Night’s Dream seems to be an argument against the idea of eternal love and the societal standard of marriage; but under the surface,

In the comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the plethora of comedic styles used by Shakespeare illustrate his intention to poke fun at love throughout the play. The play is notorious for its intricate and irrational plotline, mainly due to the constantly shifting love triangles. Once the powerful fairies become involved

Throughout literary history, different themes have proven to be consistently popular for audiences. The desire to present an accurate reflection of reality has proven to be a major source of inspiration for both authors and readers alike. Reality

The social order and love within A Midsummer’s Night Dream is skewed without the influence of the fairies, yet Oberon, Titania, and their troupe of troublemakers forcibly insert themselves into the plot with their own personal squabbles that exert power over the characters and events of the play. The crazed and maniacal actions of the characters go against the traditional forms of accepted behavior in Elizabethan society, and just like in dreams, they turn the plot topsy-turvy and breed a chaos that runs unchecked until the young Athenians emerge from the woods at dawn. There are many points where sexual roles and norms are challenged during the play, but the most heated is Oberon and Titania’s fight in Act 2 Scene 1. Titania’s refusal to

Within one’s lifetime, the mark to finding oneself is being able to overcome hardships and difficulties in order to unravel the full potential concealed within them. From being manipulated and deceived, this manages to bring about an ability hidden within oneself that can only be triggered by experiencing what it is like to be a victim of deception. In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and As You Like It by William Shakespeare, each author entraps their protagonists with the role of being manipulative or the victim of being manipulated to further enhance the author’s purpose of revealing or unlocking the hidden potential that arose within the characters.

In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare tries to tell the readers that love can often sway people into performing illogical decisions. First of all, love can cause conflict amongst people. This is shown when two of the main characters, Demetrius and Lysander, were fighting with each other for Hermia’s love. Demetrius scorns: “Relent, sweet Hermia - and Lysander, yield. Thy crazed title to my certain right.”(1.1.91-92). The conflict between the two men created tension amongst themselves, Hermia, Helena, and the Noblemen of Athens. Moreover, love is also shown to cause betrayal amongst friends. In the first act of the play, Demetrius was in love with Hermia; and Helena, her best friend, was willing to betray her just for his

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, various references to sight, seeing, and eyesight serve as a constant reminder both to the play’s central characters and audience members of the flawed distortions of appearance, in juxtaposition to the true nature of things—namely reinforcing a constricting tension between appearance and reality. Numerous references to the moon also reinforce the reduced vision, as an effect of darkness, that characters must endure in a world of constant transformation and unrealistic change. In a play where the language of love heavily depends upon sight imagery ry, the magical interventions of fairies—namely, Oberon’s placement of the love juice on characters’ eyes in the play—perturbs their ability to “see” true love. In Act 2, Scene 2, xx declares that 'Reason becomes the marshal to my will / And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook / Love's stories written in love's richest book'. Reason and love, it appears, cannot coexist. In fact, the reference to ‘eyes’ merely reinforces that, as windows to the soul, and entryways to the heart, eyes are merely emblems to the perspective of love, rather than true love itself. Indeed, the fairy world, which is essentially regarded as the dream world, exists with the human realm harmoniously, yet in both worlds love is heavily and consequentially out of balance. As Titania is sleeping, she received the love potion; similarly, Lysander, influenced by the magical love potion, falls in love with Helena upon waking. Not only is magic and dream-like influence the cause of disorder, but also it is responsible

Ibsen also employs the use of many smaller themes within his play, A Doll House. Respect and reputation, love, lies and deceit, and money are just a few of these smaller themes. Respect and reputation are something that the men of this play are obsessed with. Some of the men have good standing in society and would do anything to keep it. While other men have lost their good name and would go to great lengths to get it back. Even though the play is set in a private home, the reader knows that the public eye is constantly peeking in. Another important theme that Ibsen puts in to this play is love. He uses the

The character I chose to analyse is Oberon, the King of the fairies in Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Oberon is an interesting character with many qualities. I will be exploring three traits that contribute to his character. These include: his motivations and personality, how he relates to the

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, four lovers get caught up in love that was a result of magic. Demetrius and Lysander are both after Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander, but he did not get the stamp of approval from her father. Hermia’s father wants her to marry Demetrius, but she does

I decided to do this part of the play because it's  where everything goes wrong. Oberon asked Puck to smear the potion on Demetrius eyes so that he will fall in love with helena. But Puck spreads the magic potion over Lysander’s eyes, thinking Lysander is Demetrius. Lysander falls into love with Helena, who thinks he is toying with her. Then, Puck spreads the potion over Demetrius’ eyes, so that he, too, is in love with Helena. Helena thinks that both boys are cruelly mocking her, while Hermia is left alone and equally confused. Puck's mistake separated true lovers that is hermia and lysander. This part therefore is very significant to the play.

Shakespeare celebrates romantic love but also satirizes it Phyllis Rackin claims that Shakespeare celebrates romantic love but also satirizes it. In this essay, using the example of the comedy “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, we will try to argue that the writer uses the notion of love as a metaphor, in order to explore certain topics concerning human feelings. This play was written in 1595-1596, probably a little later than “Romeo and Juliet” and deals with the marriage of Theseus, Duke of Athens and Hippolyta, the Amazon queen as well as all the surrounding events. The other main characters of the play are Demetrius, Hermia, Lysanderand Helena, the four young Athenians, Nick Bottom, one of the six laborers that prepare a play,Oberon, the king of

To Quote Hamlet, Act Three, Scene Three, Line Eighty-Seven, “No.” (An analyzation of true love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Examples of true love in literature can be found in a myriad of oeuvres and opuses. It is extremely popular in the contemporary era to include romance in a novel. An exemplary

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play about four Athenian lovers. Theseus listens to both Hermia and her father’s request and he tells her to bend to her father’s will or die due to the old Athenian law. Hermia and Lysander flee Athens, into the domain of the fairy kingdom. At this time, Oberon is in a fight with Titania. This fight is over a human child of Titania’s friend. Oberon tells Puck, one of his loyal servants, to get a flower hit by Cupid’s arrow, and drop the oil into Demetrius’s and Titania’s eyes. However, Puck drops the oil into Lysander’s eyes due to Oberon’s vague description, making him fall in love with Helena and despise Hermia. Titania falls in love Bottom, who has the head of an ass, after Oberon places the oil

The Function of Different Settings in A Doll's House and Twelfth Night The setting comparison and deliberation in this essay is between Henric Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". "A Doll's House" deals with the social life and duty, the woman's proper place and role within the family and the society. "Twelfth Night" is about illusion, deception, disguises, madness, and the extraordinary things that love will cause us to do and to see.