Comparing The Midsummer's Night Dream And 500 Days Of Summer

The texts Act I of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, “Life In The Elizabethan England,” and “Bringing Home The Wrong Race,” all have similar ideas about love, and the restrictions that surround it. Each one have distinctions, these differences give each other a take on the situation of love. These distinctions of the relationships, the similarities, and the differences all make up the body of each text.

One thing that is timeless is that teenagers will always fall in and out of love quickly. In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare, the theme of love is evident among the characters and love affects them all differently. Like many other Shakespearean plays, “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream” delves into the lives of young lovers who fall in and out of love magically all in the span of one night. This paper will explore how Shakespeare shows the reality of, loves difficulty on Hermia through her trials, tribulations and triumphs.

All Shakespearean plays are interpreted very differently and all versions we watched were very different. Shakespeare created these plays to allow people to put their own spin on the stories, and that is what each of the producers, and film directors chose to do. The two plays I watched were the 1999 interpretation, and A Midsummer Night's Dream" presented by Rice University Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts. After watching both of them and seeing the difference between the two, the 1999 version caught my attention the most for many reasons.

“The course of true love never did run smooth,” comments Lysander of love’s complications in an exchange with Hermia (Shakespeare I.i.136). Although the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream certainly deals with the difficulty of romance, it is not considered a true love story like Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare, as he unfolds the story, intentionally distances the audience from the emotions of the characters so he can caricature the anguish and burdens endured by the lovers. Through his masterful use of figurative language, Shakespeare examines the theme of the capricious and irrational nature of love.

Love is a timeless topic which Shakespeare explores in depth in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream “. Shakespeare utilizes the format of a play within a play to communicate the complexities of love. Love is a force that characters cannot control. The play includes scenes of lovers searching for fulfillment in the arms of characters who are unavailable. The magic love potion wreaks havoc between actual lovers and it is clear just how negatively it is portrayed. The entire play revolves around the difficulties of maintaining love and how foolish and insecure the pursuit of love can make us. It also touches on the fickleness of love, that love can be

Love is such an abstract and intangible thing, yet it is something that everyone longs for. In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the difficulty of love is explored through the obstacles that characters have to face while pursuing their loved ones. Those characters that are in love in the play were conflicted with troubles; however, the obstacles of love do not seem to stop them from being infatuated with each other. The concept of true love is examined throughout this play. By creating obstacles using authority and a higher power, Shakespeare examines the power of love. Through Hermia and Lysander’s loving words, it is reasonable to conclude that love conquers all if you believe in it.

Michael Hoffman’s 1999 film version of Shakespeare's midsummer night’s dream was able to modify the audience experience of the play. Michael Hoffman had successfully turned the play into a film and was able to show a visible expression of the characters to the audience. He had also made some changes, like the settings and made his version modernized. Though the film was based on the Shakespeare’s play, the audience’s experience is still different.

He says, “Is there no play, to ease the anguish of a torturing hour?” implying that his biggest concern is taking his new wife to bed. Overall, we see that Theseus exhibits a different kind of love to the other lovers, as his views of love fit the boundaries of law, reality, and reason. He sees love as being dreamlike and magical, which causes him to act in a way that is not perceived as loving. For example, how his words of love towards Hippolyta seem much more forced than the exchanges between other couples such as Hermia and

Certain parallels can be drawn between William Shakespeare's plays, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and "Romeo and Juliet". These parallels concern themes and prototypical Shakespearian character types. Both plays have a distinct pair of 'lovers', Hermia and Lysander, and Romeo and Juliet, respectively. Both plays could have also easily been tragedy or comedy with a few simple changes. A tragic play is a play in which one or more characters  has a moral flaw that leads to his/her downfall. A comedic play has at least one humorous character, and a successful or happy ending. Comparing these two plays is useful to find how

William Shakespeare is well known to write his plays within two categories, Comedy and Tragedy. Shakespeare’s plays are categorized by which architype that particular play concludes upon. If the play ends in the fall of the main protagonist, it is identified as a tragedy; if the play concludes on a wedding it is identified as a comedy. For Shakespeare, in these two genres of plays a usually hidden third element able to adapt the traditional understanding of the genre into something different. The absurd, and often exaggerated, farce is a form of comedic theater carries its presence in the comedic presentation of several of Shakespeare’s plays.

The nineteen ninety-nine version of A Midsummer’s Night Dream was richly and beautifully acted. Starring Calista Flockhart, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christian Bale, Kevin Kline, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, and Anna Friel showed how a play adaption could still stay true to the playwright in a different era. The actors in the film made their characters come to life. Calista Flockhart played Helena, the hapless, scorned, unloved woman who desperately tries to pursue Demetrius. The character traits that Helena posses were well displayed by Flockhart. She was relentless, pathetic, pitiful, cowardly, ambitious, and love-struck all in one. The emotion displayed was emasculating. Every scene lived up to the play. Anna Friel played Hermia excellently. She was out spoken, strong minded, and sassy. She went for what she wanted and didn’t back down.

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.

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

Comparing a play to its movie adaptation is something that is hard to do since there is no tangible way a person can capture the original then change it to make the movie version of it up to par to the original. From the original play of A Midsummer’s Night Dream that was created by Shakespeare in the movie version of it created by Michael Hoffman, there are many similarities and differences that are in the movie some are very stark while others are very subtle differences.

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