Essay on Social Order In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Here, the structure and rhyme scheme of the lovers’ lines reveals Shakespeare’s underlying meaning for this otherwise playful comedy. Most of the lines between the lovers in the woods are heroic couplets, rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter. Being nobles, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena speak in the formal, intellectual iambic pentameter; yet, love has left them acting foolish and silly, as shown through the constant rhymes reminiscent of a juvenile love poem. The couplets dismantle the formality and intellectual aspect of the lovers’ language, as the lovers rhyme lines including Helena’s “No, no I am as ugly as a bear,/For beasts that meet me run away for fear” (Shakespeare II.ii.100-101). This structure creates the chaotic, comedic tone of the scene, which ultimately leaves the lovers looking like fools lost in delirium as they run about the woods. Yet, emerging from the woods in Act 3, Demetrius has been detached of his previous life of delusion, saying that it is as if he has recovered from a sickness and now can properly taste. Finally disenchanted with Hermia, Demetrius has realized his true love for Helena. Meanwhile, Lysander and Hermia reunite after splitting earlier in the woods. It was not the lawful decree of the logical Theseus that concluded the primary conflict of this play. The illogical lovers with their heroic couplets ultimately created two stable couples out of the abstract social

Class plays a major role in Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare through the distinction of each character’s class. In the play there are two worlds each with their own social hierarchy, we have the Athenian higher class – Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, Hermia Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius – and the Athenian lower class – Bottom, Quince, Flute, Starveling, and the other commoners – as well as the mythological higher class – Titania and Oberon- and the mythological lower class – Puck, Coweb, Peaseblossom, Mustardseed, and the other servant fairies. However, Midsummer Night’s Dream could have easily been just a love story without the complication of society’s social hierarchy. Through the nobility’s degradation of lower classes and the

Above all the tensions created by the discussion of marriage, Lysander deliver a quotes to his love Hermia. “The course of true love never did run smooth…” (Act 1, Scene 1, line 134) is a famous quote by Lysander. In the quote he conveys to readers that love is not perfect, it also has its ups and downs and that he and Hermia are going through a tough situation. Hermia and Lysander both love each other and have made a plan to meet in a forest and then escape Athens however the problem arises when Hermia has tells Helena this and she plans to tell Demetrius about this so that he will love her and not Hermia. The King of fairies− Oberon hears all this and decides to settle the dispute between all of them. He instructs his assistant Robin Goodfellow to search for Demetrius and put the love juice on his eyelids so that he is compelled to love Helena, he informs him about the dressing style of Demetrius in "thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on" (Act 2, Scene 1, line 263-264). However there is a problem, in the forest there are two Athenian men dressed in Athenian garments and their identities were mistaken; instead of putting the love juice on Demetrius's eyelids Robin Goodfellow put it on Lysander's eyelids. Now Lysander "loves" Helena and wants to get away from Hermia. After discovering Robin Goodfellow's mistake, Oberon tries to correct this mistake by putting the same love juice in Demetrius's so that he loves Helena eyes however

If there was no such thing as sympathy, empathy, or love in our world, it would be a hard place to live. If there was no hard law or reason in our world, it would be a crazy place to live. Neither of these worlds would be anybody’s first choice as a home - it's just common sense take away either of these two fundamental aspects of life, and everything is immediately chaos. In fact, it is only in a world such as ours, where legal and human emotion work together, that we are happy. In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare recognizes this truth and uses the two settings to represent the city of Athens as law, order, civility, and judgment, while the woods represent chaos, incivility, dreams, and love.

William Shakespeare starts with a seemingly unresolvable conflict in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The main characters are lovers who are either unrequited in their love or hassled by the love of another. These lovers are inevitably paired. How does Shakespeare make this happen? He creates many subplots that, before long, are all snarled up into a chaotic knot. So, what actions does Shakespeare take to resolve these new quandaries? He ends up trusting a single key entity with his comedy. It’s only then that he introduces a special character into his world: a mischievous fairy whom is known by the name of Puck. Puck is the catalyst for all these subplots and, indeed, for the entirety of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Try to take Puck

Shakespeare's unique talent for creating poetry is effective in both establishing character and demonstrating the theme. The characters of the play all speak in poetic form with the exception of the English rustics who speak in prose. This helps to place the fairies and lovers on a higher, more transcendental plane than the artisans. Therefore, the artisans become more comical and lighten up the confusing comedy of love. The poetry of Shakespeare's genius also clarifies the play's theme of the extreme confusion and blinding powers of love. The rhythmic words help to create a magical setting of love while the rhymes portray the confusion each character feels while under the stupefying powers of love.

Shakespeare’s dramas deal with timeless themes such as e.g. love and hate, life and death, in a fairytale-y way, with a pinch of intricate entanglements, in such a way that makes the classical Greek love triangle seem trite. The language in the 400-year-old text is at once lyrical and hard-hitting, providing with a liveliness that still affects the present day reader. Shakespeare’s significance in the history of literature is invaluable, and his style has influenced authors since the 1600s. Not only has his works been a source of inspiration

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.

What is true love? What is fake love? How can we tell the difference? William Shakespeare, in Midsummer Night's Dream demonstrates how fake love crumbles and how true love perseveres. New relationships can be easily broken if they are fake.

In William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” two worlds are distinctly contrasted throughout the play. These worlds serve to be the extremes both in thought and action. One world is the Athenian state; which is governed by order, law and reason; whereas, the forest or fairy world lies within the domain of imagination, where anything is possible. While both worlds are paralleled in the play, they have complex interactions in which the characters succumb to influences to influences from both of them. The ruler’s of these two worlds, Theseus in Athens and Oberon in the Fairy world, play critical roles in the events of the story in which their actions and decisions transform the lives of the young lovers. Theseus’ initial rulings for

What Richard Alleva is saying is that Nick Bottom is one of the greatest characters that provide comic relief in Shakespeare’s play. Shakespeare uses Bottom to provide comedy to the play, in which most of the play is based around him and his antics. Bottom messes up grammar, spelling, and everything that Quince, the author of "Pyramus and Thisbe," had wanted for the play for the Duke and Duchess. Examples of his Ass like qualities are seen in the first act. For instance, Bottom says “You were best to call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip” (1.2.2). What makes him a fool in this statement is that he uses the word generally, instead of the word individually. Also he uses the word scrip, when he really means to use the word script. Another great example of Bottom’s foolishness, acting as Pyramus: "Thisbe, the flowers of odious savors sweet" (3.1.59). This mistake perfectly reflects Bottom because he should have said the word ‘odors' instead of ‘odious' in the sentence. Odors means "fragrant smells," while odious means "repulsive." This humor is obvious to everybody watching that Bottom had made a mistake. So these are just a few examples to explain how Bottom was a fool and provided laughter.

Mandy Conway Mrs. Guynes English 12 16 March 2000 A Critical Analysis of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" William Shakespeare, born in 1594, is one of the greatest writers in literature. He dies in 1616 after completing many sonnets and plays. One of which is "A Midsummer Night's Dream." They say that this play is the most purely romantic of Shakespeare's comedies. The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. This extraordinary play is a play-with-in-a-play, which master writers only write successfully. Shakespeare proves here to be a master writer. Critics find it a task to explain the intricateness of the play, audiences find it very pleasing to read and watch. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a

Both Hermia and Lysander are young and they do not care for society’s custom’s and rules. In Athens people must suppress feelings and impulses and only make choices or decisions based on logic. While Athens is a placed where u don’t have to power to show or act on raw emotion such as love, the fairy world represents man’s ability to show and act on emotions. Things like adventure, romance, fear, foolishness, and mockery are unwelcomed by Athens but welcomed by the fairy woods. This is why they leave Athens and go into the fairy woods to be in love with one another where rational thinking doesn’t matter. “Lysander and myself will fly this place.” Unlike Hermia and Demetrius, Theseus and Hippolyta are both in love with each other even though being forced to marry each other. Theseus the king of Athens, is the highest symbol of law and order in his kingdom. After Theseus won a war with another kingdom, he chooses to marry their queen, Hippolyta. “Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword, and won thy love, doing thee injuries; But I will wed thee in another key, with pomp, with triumph and with reveling.” His was inspired by love, but the political ramifications of their marriage are what made the

5. She decides to enter a nunery and live alone if she cannot marry Lysander.