Midsummer Night's Dream

Hermia’s speech in Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, contains an abundance of dream imagery. She has awoken from a terrible dream after falling asleep in the forest with Lysander. They were lost and tired so they decided to rest. Lysander wanted to sleep beside her but, she refused since they are not yet married and while they slept Puck applied a love potion on Lysander’s eyes thinking he was Demetrius. Lysander wakes and is repulsed by the sight of Hermia and never wants to see her again because he is now in love with Helena. Hermia awakes from her terrible dream and retells it thinking that Lysander is nearby listening. Then she realizes that he is not there and she does not see him anywhere. Hermia expresses the sentiment that she will find Lysander or she will surely die. She stated,

Good morning/afternoon [teacher] and class. Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet conveys human experience effectively, as the use of tragic and comic genre conventions engages the audience as well as stays accurate to the current time period.

In Act II, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare adopts a solicitous tone and utilizes personification, oxymorons and symbolism to foreshadow the tragic end of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Shakespeare utilized personification to set the scene of the act.In the scene, Friar Lawrence is gathering plants before the day’s break, he states that “The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night” (2.3. 1), which makes it seem as though the mornings brightness replaces the dark, frowning night. By comparing the two, Shakespeare contrasted the good and the evil; what happens in the night versus the day. This quote initiates the contrast of what could happen with Romeo and Juliet’s love. After setting the scene for the rest of the soliloquy, Shakespeare utilizes an oxymoron to show the course of Mother Nature: “The earth that’s nature’s mother is in her tomb; What is her burying grave, that is her

Out you green-sickness carrion! Out you baggage! / You tallow face!’(3.5.153-158). Romeo and Juliet also had to deal with a lot of stress

In this play there are two groups; the Chorus of Old Men and the Chorus of Old Women. The Chorus of Men is first to appear carrying wood, torches, and fire pits to the gates of the Acropolis. The Chorus of Men is an old bunch of men who

In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, the protagonist, Romeo, is continuelly characterized as downhearted and bewildered through the use of figurtive language. One day, Romeo’s Mother and cousin, Lady Montague and Benvolio, have a conversation about how Romeo has been “... [Shutting] up his windows, [locking] fair daylight out, and [Making] himself an artificial night…”(1.1.141-145), everyday when he comes home. Through the use of imagery, the reader sees Romeo sit in his room not allowing any light to come through his windows, essentially not allowing any positivity or happiness into his life. By making himself an “artificial night” he has darkened his spirits to an even more extreme level than they already were.

The strongest emotion humans can exchange is the feeling of affection and love. In Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare the characters of the play will do anything for love. It does not matter whether love is one sided, like as the case of Helena, or forbidden by your lovers father as Lysander , taking risks and fighting for love, as Hermia did is how true love is shown. Even though love takes them on difficult paths in the end they find their ways to happiness.

Romeo: "But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." (ACT II, scene 2)

“Audiences can gain a better understanding of ways to behave in a specific relationship through comparing past and present representations of them in texts.”

Shakespeare’s usage of metaphor and simile in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is best understood as an attempt to provide some useful context for relationships and emotions, most often love and friendship, or the lack thereof. One example of such a usage is in Act 3, Scene 2 of the play. Here, the two Athenian couples wake up in the forest and fall under the effects of the flower, thus confusing the romantic relationships between them. Hermia comes to find her Lysander has fallen for Helena. Hermia suspects that the two have both conspired against her in some cruel joke, and begins lashing out against Helena. She says “We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, / Have with our needles created both one flower, / Both one sampler sitting on one cushion, / Both warbling of one song, both in one key; / As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, / Had been incorporate. So we grew together, / Like a double cherry, seeming parted; / But yet a union in partition / Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: / So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; / Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, / Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.” (Shakespeare 2.3.206-13). Shakespeare writes this list of vibrant metaphors to establish the prior relationship between these two characters and to make it evident how affected Helena is by this unexpected turn of events, as well as to add a greater range of emotion to the comedy, thereby lending it more literary and popular appeal.

Perhaps one of William Shakespeare's greatest plays of all time, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play intended to be watched, rather than read, with an imaginative mind. It is a play that is in the genre of romantic comedy. The romantic aspects of the play are made possible with the characters of Theseus and Hippolyta, Lysander and Hermia, Helena and Demetrius, and Oberon with Titania. However, the comedy that is involved in this masterpiece is mostly shown through the lines of Nick Bottom. Although many plays are dull and repetitious with romanticism, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a romantic play brought to life with comedic characters like Nick Bottom.

The scene ends with Helena on stage by herself stating, “Things base and vile, holding no quantity / Love can transpose to form and dignity”(1.1.232-33). In other words, even if something may seem ugly and unappealing to one person, it can seem perfect

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play about four Athenian lovers. Theseus listens to both Hermia and her father’s request and he tells her to bend to her father’s will or die due to the old Athenian law. Hermia and Lysander flee Athens, into the domain of the fairy kingdom. At this time, Oberon is in a fight with Titania. This fight is over a human child of Titania’s friend. Oberon tells Puck, one of his loyal servants, to get a flower hit by Cupid’s arrow, and drop the oil into Demetrius’s and Titania’s eyes. However, Puck drops the oil into Lysander’s eyes due to Oberon’s vague description, making him fall in love with Helena and despise Hermia. Titania falls in love Bottom, who has the head of an ass, after Oberon places the oil

It was a mad time full of pranks and confusion, just as in the play. This name, ‘Twelfth Night’, therefore seems appropriate for this play due to all the confusion and the banter that goes on in the confusing storyline. In Twelfth Night we see different types of humour. There is the word play, the vulgar humour of Sir Toby, stupidity of Sir Andrew, Malvolio‘s foolishness , and the general confusion caused by Viola's disguise.

In Oedipus the King, a play by Sophocles, we see the struggles of a man destined to murder his father and sleep with his mother. While the story centers around the royalty commonly found in a tragedy, the lower class are a very important part of the story and help propel the narrative forwards. The lower class characters who affect the story the most are the messenger who delivers the news of Polybus’ death to Oedipus, the Shepherd who rescued Oedipus from the talons of death, and the Chorus who represent the people of Thebes. The narrative of the play is heavily catalyzed by these key minor characters, and without them the story would not have taken place in the same way it had.