Comparing Ibsen's House 'And A Midsummer Night'

While some characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream try to have agency over who they love, they are ultimately controlled by the love potion that was discovered by Oberon, or they are controlled by their parents. This is shown many times throughout the play, displaying that the characters fall in love with the first person that they see when they are under the spell of the potion. Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a result of fate. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oberon discovers a love potion, and he wants to use it on his wife, Titania, to make her fall in love with him again, even after he steals the child that she was ordered to take care of. He then starts to use it on other people too, to help the love triangles in the play all fall into

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

In William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream there is Makeups,Breakups and Love. The characters go through a roller coaster of emotions throughout the play. Many emotions of the characters are made confusing by the king of fairies Oberon and his servant Puck/Robin. The drama throughout the play creates many problems for the characters. One of those characters is Helena, she shows that love is crazy when she talks to Hermia, gives Demetrius permission to beat her and when she talks to Demetrius in the woods.

Help,” (Act III.i) shows the actors running away from Bottom when they first see him. Similarily, magic is used to make lovers within the play desire someone else. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there is a love square between Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius. Oberon tells Puck to fetch a magic flower and drop its juice in Demetrius’s eyes.

Shakespeare suggests dreams are as useful as reason, as demonstrated by Oberon's cover up for his mistakes, Bottom’s mayhem of being in love, and Puck’s closing statement for the play Pyramus and Thisbe. Hermia and Lysander plan to elope, but Demetrius loves Hermia and Helena loves Demetrius. Trying to get closer to Demetrius, Helena tells him about Hermia and Lysander's elopement, and they go searching for them in the woods. Oberon, the king of fairies, overhears this love “mix-up” and tells Puck to look for a flower that has been struck by Cupid's arrow. This flower would work as a love potion, which he then asks to sprinkle on an Athenian man, Demetrius, in the

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedic play about a complex love relationship between four lovers, Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius. The king of fairies, Oberon orders a hobgoblin named Robin Goodfellow or “puck” to retrieve an extraordinary flower so he can put the juice into the queen of fairies, Titania’s eyes. This was an exceptional flower because when the juice is applied to a person’s eyelid, it makes them fall in love with the first creature they see. Robin obtains the flower and drops the juice onto Titania, Demetrius, and Lysander’s eyelids where they fall in love with the wrong person. Titania falls in love with a weaver named Bottom, and Demetrius and Lysander fall in love with Helena. Hermia starts to argue with Helena

William Shakespeare portrays how sometimes love changes as the circumstances change, which indicates that it could not be true love. Throughout the play, several characters change their minds about who they love. For example, when Oberon gives Titania the love potion, she immediately falls in love with Bottom, whom Robin turned into an ass. However, when Oberon gives her the antidote, she “wakes” and her eyes “loathe his visage now” (Shakespeare 4.1.77). Shakespeare puts a comedic twist on the power of “love at first sight,” relating Titania’s bout with Bottom ending as quick as it begun. Often people believe they found their true love only to discover that person is not what’s best for them. Likewise, when Lysander falls victim to the same potion, he declares: “Not Hermia, but Helena I love. Who will not change a raven for a dove?” (2.2.120). Lysander’s fatuation suddenly switches from Hermia to Helena, with his reason being that she’s better looking. Shakespeare is hinting at the fact that people are always chasing the latest and the greatest, be it goods to accessories to love partners, so when someone seemingly better comes around, people often leave whom they previously loved without warning. Additionally, when Demetrius falls under the spell, he denounces his love for Hermia, for now he loves Helena. He claims, “If e’er I loved her, all that love is gone” (3.2.173). Demetrius completely changes his stance on who he loves, and assures Helena he is hers. Shakespeare creates a picture of how people who are quick to love sound in a new relationship, and depicts how fragile their relationship is. Thus, throughout the play and through numerous examples,

The relationship between King of the fairies, Oberon and his wife, Queen Titania is run by manipulation and lies. Oberon wants to use an Indian boy that Titania has stolen as a guard, but Titania does not want to give the boy to him, which angers the king deeply and causes him to prepare a plan to get what he wants. Oberon’s plan is to gather a plant that can make anyone fall in love with anything. In the Article "Oberon And Masculinity In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream," the author states that he achieved his desire by the “attempt to limit woman’s power, and their success or failure to do so affects their participation in the comic world” which accentuates that he degraded his wife from all superiority that she had left and causes her to humiliate herself so he could come out successful and conquer his desire to get the boy (Walters 52). This manipulation of power would be seen throughout the Elizabethan era and many men did believe that using ‘love’ as a way to detour a faster rout in gathering what they wanted was okay, so they used it in any scenario they though was

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.

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

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.

Honor vs shame Succumbing to lies and deceit, lustful temptation, and insubordinate shortcomings, characters in Shakespeare’s plays and histories illuminate the challenges with which significant societal figures fight to preserve their honorable titles while battling the self-consciousness of shame. Indeed, in Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of Shakespeare’s primere comedies, there is an ongoing conflict between submission to passion and loyalty to friends, seen most notably in the character of Proteus, one who “after honor hunts”. Similarly, in Richard ii, Richard as a king is supposedly omnipotent and divine, yet simultaneously prey to his very own weaknesses: it is only during his deposition that he exposes his acute awareness in

The Theme of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare presents us with multiple types of love by using numerous couples in various different situations. For example: Doting loves, the love induced by Oberon's potion and in some aspects, Lysander and Hermia's love for each other; there are true loves: Oberon and Titania, Lysander and Hermia (for the first half at least, as Lysander's love switches to Helena temporarily) and Theseus and Hippolyta. Also, there is Helena's love for Demetrius, which could be described as a true love, even though at first it is unrequited.

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

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 as a theme is prevalent in literature, and the numerous ways that reality and illusion intertwine. In William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the illusory world which the characters inhabit is enhanced by the supernatural. The relationship between Oberon and Titania contributes to the development of the play’s theme of reality and illusion; they are the catalyst by which the play’s action occurs, and their spontaneous natures are countered with human flaws, further