Comparing Romeo And Juliet 'And' A Midsummer Night's Dream

Although many Shakespearean plays are very similar to one another, two stand out from the rest as sharing a great deal in common. Specific, solid parallels can be drawn between Shakespeare's plays "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet." The themes and characters are remarkably similar in many aspects. Firstly, both plays highlight the stereotypical young lovers - Hermia and Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Romeo and Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet." Secondly, both plays are very ambiguously categorized. By this I mean that each could have been a tragedy just as easily as a drama (with a few minor modifications). By definition, a tragic play is a play in which the main character has a fatal flaw that leads to

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. This is the dominant theme in Shakespeare 's The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, a play is about two rival noble families from Verona, the Capulets and Montagues. Indeed, the two families have such an ongoing hatred for each other that they are constantly feuding violently without end. Having had enough, Prince Escalus, the Prince of Verona, one day decrees the penalty of death to be upon the person who disrupts the peace again. It is against this vicious backdrop that Shakespeare by contrast, accentuates love in Romeo and Juliet. Three different types of love are depicted: the infatuation of Romeo, the son and heir of Montague, with a woman named Rosaline; the arranged love between Juliet, the daughter of Capulet, and Paris, a kinsman of Prince Escalus, whom Juliet’s parents have chosen to be her suitor; and ultimately, the true love between Romeo and Juliet, whose families are each other’s worst and greatest enemies.

The love that Romeo and Juliet had was very intense they weren’t supposed to be together because of family feud. The capulets and montagues are two different families that have different things that aren 't common on each other. Due to this Romeo and Juliet are conscious that what they have can 't happen but true love can cause people to take many risk. For example Romeo and Juliet can’t be together but they can decide to be together without there parents knowing that they feel in love and that they are planning to get married without their parents permission because their love is more important than what their families think about the difference and

In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet suicide is the direct cause of the two star-crossed lovers to die, though an indirect cause is the long lasting feud between their families. Juliet, thinking she is alone, says “O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. (2.2.3-34)”  She says that because in their “time” it is considered illegal to have family crossed love. After that, she says if Romeo doesn’t let go of his name, then she will. Next, Juliet says, realizing Romeo has been eavesdropping on her, “How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, and the place death, considering who thou art, if any of my kinsmen find thee here.(2.2.67-70)” After Juliet has

This Unit Plan, which will utilize different texts from Shakespeare, will cover many of the Common Core State Standards. One of the standards that will be covered is the LAFS.910.RI.2.6. This standard focuses on students' reading skills in a way to strengthen understanding of an author's point of view or purpose in a text. Students will learn to analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance their point of view or purpose (Educator Toolkits, 2015). We will be reading “Othello” and “A Midsummer Night's Dream” written by Shakespeare as an example to cover these thoughts and ideas. Students will watch “Romeo and Juliet” as a visual to understand the setting and error of the 16th century. Once students have watched and read the plays together,

Similarity is all around us in our everyday lives. In every class we take things are compared to one another. Many times people are quoted as saying, “Everyone is different that’s what makes us the same.” This is a very powerful quote that shows in exact context that similarities are all around us. People we meet, books we read, even the days we live all of very clear and common similarities within them. In the texts of Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Night’s Dream they both were written by William Shakespeare and they both have lovers. Even though they have these similarities the things that will be focused on comparing are Acts 1-3 in Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Many readers may assume that true love is only upon main characters who appear often; but true love is when someone cares about someone and wants to be with that person. A Midsummer's Night Dream, a play by William Shakespeare, a character mixes up who loves who so he can steal his wife’s Indian prince so his wife will give him all her attention again. While some people think Titania and Oberon aren’t in love at first, they are because they have been together for so long and Oberon gets jealous of anything that gets in the way of their love.

Both Romeo and Juliet did not choose to be born in a certain family, especially the two that are sworn enemies, they were born as a gift to life, unknowing of their surroundings, and the mess they were forced into. Just like how they were not born to be “Romeo, son of the Montagues” or Juliet, daughter of the enemy of Montagues”, they were born to be a person, just like everyone else in life, we find our reasons of being alive, we don’t chose them. They did not choose to fall in love, it's what the heart does, its what its made for, you don't choose who you love or if you love at all, it's inevitable to be distracted by love and what it will do to you. Your love for someone isn’t what you choose, you can’t force yourself to love someone without falling apart inside and realising how sworn to secret you are, you cannot love a girl because she’s beautiful, beauty is seen in different ways, it wears out, and you see who they they really are. If

A Midsummer Night’s Dream was written in about 1595 by William Shakespeare. The play was written as a comedy and is set on June 24, which is St. John the Baptist’s festival. The festival was a celebration of the birth of St. John, often being called the “summer Christmas” or the Midsummer Day or night. In England, the midsummer night was believed to have brought about witchcraft and magic, which Shakespeare portrayed through the fairy world in his play. Shakespeare set his play in Athens, Greece, since St. John is a saint of the Greek Orthodox Church.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play depicting the trials of love. The plot revolves around two separate couples and their off note love triangle. Essentially, Egeus wants his daughter to wed one man, but it turns out she is in love with another man. During this essay, we will compare and contrast these two couples relationship and describe the challenges along the way. The fairies in this play do not make the situation at hand any easier for the couples. Mischief and confusion is brought by the fairies, and in the end, the problem will be fixed once and for all.

The Shakespearean notion of comedy and tragedy have been interpreted by countless critics as absolute contradictions of one another. For instance, there is a belief that the everlastingly romantic tale of Romeo and Juliet is unambiguously a tragedy, just as A Midsummer Night’s Dream is undoubtedly a comedy. Each possesses separate, defining, characteristics which drastically alter the storyline of a play, and develop the end into either one of comedic proportion: in which there is the promise of character procreation, or a tragic one whereas the ending will signal their untimely demise. In this manner, they are a complete antithesis of one another.

Almost everyone knows the name William Shakespeare. Everyone who knows Shakespeare knows he is a famous poet, playwright, and actor. Some may even say he is the greatest writer in the English language. But what Shakespeare is widely known for is his many plays. One of his most recognizable and beloved plays, of love and heartbreak, is the tragic drama Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare left no stage direction with this play, leading it to be interpreted in many ways. This week an English class watched three different Romeo and Juliet films to find the many ways they can be interpreted.

Secondly, feuding family’s and family beliefs. I’m Romeo and Juliet there were two family’s that the tale was evolved around, the Montagues and the Capulets. These two family’s were sworn enemies, having an extensive history of violence. This violence has resulted in the death of many. With Romeo belonging to the Montague house and Juliet belonging to the Capulet house, communication was completely forbidden, let alone intimate relationships. They both ignored this and choose each other over there family’s. Later on in the novel, the Capulet family had set up an arranged marriage between Juliet and Paris. With Juliet already “in love” with Romeo, she stated that she did not want to marriage to take place, with Juliet’s father responding that she must marry Paris. He stated “An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend; And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee, Nor what is mine shall never do thee good: Trust to't, bethink you; I'll not be forsworn.” Yet she still disobeyed her father, choosing Romeo, not taking into account what she would do if the

In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare Hermia and Helena are two friends that differ in many ways. These two women are considered a friends with the main difference of one having confidence and other one lacking it. Helena is fighting for the love of Demetrius, while Hermia has the love of two men, including Demetrius himself. Helena is desperate for the love of a man that was once hers, but stolen by her friend. They are noble friends who are also envious of each other. A love potion is conducted which throws this love out of proportion without anyone’s consensus. The theme of this play is love’s difficulty, Helena and Hermia connect to this through the personal destruction of their own friendship just for the love and false love of Lysander and Demetrius.

Throughout the years of history many plays have been reenacted into modern day movies. For example, the play Romeo and Juliet was estimated to be written by shakespeare by 1591-1595, and since then, many movies have came out to reenact Romeo and Juliet. Another example of a play is Twelfth Night. It was written in 1601, and by 2006 it was reenacted into a movie named She’s the Man. Although they are not exactly the same, like the time period, the culture, and the target audience, there are other things that are similar between the two, which are character names, the plot points, and the theme.