Midsummer Night's Dream Archetypes

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“Beware of your stereotypes and prejudices, they can trap you in a box and make you miss what life has to offer you”─Med Yones. One has to see past the stereotypes in life, just as one should do for A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. This literature masterpiece entails a quarrel of a pair of lovers caught entangled in a treacherous web of tainted love and magic. This comedy, viewed through the archetypal literary criticism lens─which focuses on the stereotypical aspects─, makes the audience wonder and push beyond the boundaries of the stereotypes with the tale. Combined with its other elements, A Midsummer Night's Dream is more entertaining and meaningful when viewed through the archetypal literary criticism lens; such as in Act 1: scene 1; Act 3: scene 2; and Act 5: scene 1 in both the printed text and the 1999 film versions.

Archetypes are in every movie, book, tv show, and so on. An Archetype is a typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature. There are many different archetypes in the movie The Princess Bride. Westley is a great example of the chief archetype. The chief archetype is known and born to be a leader.

Character archetypes are present in almost all fairytales, fables, novels, poems, and folktales. An archetype is a character or situation that repeats universally throughout stories. In Perseus, King Acrisius learns that his daughter, Danae, is going to have a son that will kill him. He fears what the gods will do to him if he kills his daughter, so he imprisons Danae.

What is an archetype? An archetype is a universal symbol, may be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting. (Literary Devices, 2016). Archetypes can be used to describe different types of people. People can be any type of archetype good or bad.

An archetype is a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology. Everyone has archetypes, some being stronger than others. Archetypes help define who you are on the inside and how others see you. I believe that my strongest archetypes are the innocent, the lover, and the fool. One of my strongest archetypes is the fool.

An archetype is an ideal example or model after which other things are patterned. It is also known as a universal symbol, character, theme, or even a setting. They recur throughout human culture. Some examples may include : the hero, the mentor, the journey, good versus evil, etc. Those are some of the most common archetypes in literature, mythology, and dreams , because they are representations of universal human experiences. Archetypes can also offer a better understanding into the characters we try to flesh out in mere words.

Archetypes are a recurring actions or attributes that represent definitive events in a person's life or a specific character. They are universal emblems in literature that correspond to various aspects of human, behavior, and culture. They are usually incorporated, by writers to symbolize relationships between divergent charterers, situations or symbolically natural opposites. They are a major factor in writing literature because they help shape a piece of literature. Archetypes are a major part they help illuminate the purpose of different characters and bonds between each other. The film Big is a classic film due to, the captivating idea of turning a boy into a man and the use of specific archetypes such as mentors, earth mother, star-crossed lovers and much more. It also is an excellent presentation of the archetypical cycle.

Love, while considered to be a wonderful experience, can also be a turbulent force that causes chaos. In Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, love contributes much to the conflict involving Lysander, Demetrius, and Hermia. This conflict is shown in three ways: Hermia's life is threatened for wanting to marry the man she loves. Hermia and Lysander are forced to make a risky decision to preserve their love, and a hateful relationship forms between Demetrius and Lysander due to their love for Hermia. The confused relationships between these lovers causes turmoil within A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In literature, an archetype is a symbol, character or a setting that represents universal patterns of human nature. “Love is a heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake - it’s everything! Except what it is.” Love is naturally the most famous and dominant theme in this play, But not the only dominant archetype. Another dominant is death.

An archetype is a main character, an action, or a situation that seems to symbolize ideas related to human beings. (literarydevices.net). Such symbols help create an understanding to the deeper meaning within the poem. The main kinds of archetypes, but the three types that are obvious in this poem are: situational, character, and symbolic archetypes.

In the play A Midsummer Night’s dream by William Shakespeare, the readers learned about two lovers who run away to the forest, a fairy king and queen who are fighting over an Indian boy, and actors who are trying to entertain the duke and the duchess. A fairy named Puck tampered with relationships and caused confusion, anger, and sadness. Although there are many options on this play the one that stood out the most is how important of a role Puck played in the play. The first key idea is that Puck puts the flower juice on Lysander's eye making him fall in love with Helena. The second key idea is that Puck changes Bottom’s head into a donkey and how Demetrius falls in love, and the third key idea is how Puck changes Bottom’s head back into a human head.

“O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence! Love takes the meaning in love's conference.” Lysander's quote, “The course of true love never did run smooth,” is proven throughout the play as three couples face challenges and hardships as time goes on, that no love is easy and that anyone would do anything they can to keep the love they have. In “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” there are many examples of rough love, as seen with Hermia and Lysander when Lysander stops loving Hermia, when Helena love Demetrius but he does not love her back and with Titania and Oberon, as they argue over the changeling boy.

Archetypes are types of characters who appear repeatedly in literature, theater, and film. Writers have been using archetypes for many years much in the same way that we use genre today.

Earning Love Fairies, flowers, and love are three very crucial elements of the classic book, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. This classic tells the story of Hermia, Helena, Demetrius and Lysander, and their journey through the forest one fateful summer night. Lysander is one of the main characters, and has a lot of influence over the book. Lysander thinks of love as something you earn, not give away, and this is shown by his love for Hermia, his sudden love for Helena, and him once again loving Hermia. When we first meet Lysander, he is following after Hermia and her father, Egeus, trying to get his approval to marry Hermia.