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

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.

Humanity has often discussed love and relationships, as these are key to the human person due to the opportunities and paths that emerge to improve one’s life in a unique manner by engaging in a loving relationship. Literature, ever since its inception, had an innumerable amount of stories that involved the commonly recurring themes of love and relationships. This is not mere coincidence, rather, an essential, intrinsic part of mankind to desire to engage in these relationships, thus, the literature of love and relationships resonates within us. William Shakespeare, the legendary British playwright of the Elizabethan era, was famed for writing numerous plays, however, many of his plays dealt with these common themes: love and relationships.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Shakespeare’s greatest comedy is all about love. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a skillful interweaving of four plots involving four groups of characters: the court party of Theseus, the four young lovers, the fairies, and the “rude mechanicals” or would-be actors”.

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.

Analysis of the Character Theseus Love is a theme that is greatly explored throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and is experienced in many different ways among the different characters. Focusing on the character of Theseus, we see that his portrayal of love is very different to the rest of the lovers, and we even question whether he is experiencing love at all. His character and views on love develop drastically during the play, and I want to explore this progression in detail.

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 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.

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