The Purpose of Authority in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Make the State the provider, employer and moral authority. To do this, the State has to convince the masses that only it can provide and bestow equality, rights and privileges - a benevolent dictatorship along the lines of Huxley’s, "Brave New World Revisited".

Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream involves a lot of the idea of agency and choosing whether to listen to voices of authority and lose your freedom, or to do what you believe you should do at the risk of losing everything . The plot opens up many opportunities for characters to demonstrate agency. Many characters are strong and demonstrate agency throughout the play, such as Hermia and Lysander. Others only show agency for part of the play, such as Titania. The play shows that when the power in the play is being abused, the characters that choose to have agency and strength end up being more successful at the end.

In the event that the government turns out to be tyrannical, the people have the power and the right to overthrow it and bring appropriate changes for the good of all. However, this change has to be instituted rationally (Riley, 1990).

15. What does a messenger report that unsettles Macbeth’s sense of security? A moving forest

Control is a big part of Shakespeare's Midsummer’s Night Dream and is what brings the whole story together. Whether, it is parental control, or it is the control of peers this story is full of it. Control is expressed with all of the characters, no matter how powerful or what their role is. Hermia and Helena two of the four teenagers and are best friends, but they have many problems throughout the story due to the other. Hermia and her father Egues are another example of control in this story. This shows two of the different kinds of control Shakespeare's Midsummer’s Night Dream has and also shows two of the controlled relationship that makes up the story.

government the government might abuse it, and inflict tyranny among its citizens. This idea was a

When they go out in the world, they act differently and try to fit in with their peers. Shakespeare shows the duality of life when Lady Macbeth is speaking to Macbeth "Look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't." Shakespeare uses the metaphors of flower, to show that Macbeth will act like he is pure and innocent and the serpent, to show his betrayal and evil. These metaphors give the reader an understanding of what Macbeth is becoming, a deceitful murderer. Shakespeare also shows duality after Macbeth is told news that he is the new Thane of Cawdor and is talking to himself regarding the witches prophecy. "This supernatural soliciting cannot be good, cannot be ill." Shakespeare uses this paradox to show Macbeth's confusion and how he is unable to understand whether his situation is good or bad. Macbeth's duality is a concentrated version of our society and how we

In the city of Athens the strict laws forbid Hermia and Lysander from happily marrying each other. For this, they conclude that the only way that they can be truly happy together is if they run away with each other to the rule free forest. Lysander and Hermia believe that the forest will offer them an escape from their dictated lives in the city.

The forest in the story stands fear for the people.They make a law for the

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The exposition begins in Athens with Hermia being forced by her father, Egeus and Theseus, the duke of Athens, to marry Demetrius, a man she did not love. She was in love with Lysander. Since they could not marry, Lysander was to meet her in the forest so they could run away to his aunt’s house in another city. Hermia’s best friend, Helena, was in love with Demetrius, who did not love her. She told him about the plan and followed him to the woods to see what was going to happen, the woods were also filled with fairies. The King of the fairies Oberon and the Queen of fairies Titania were fighting over a changeling boy because the king wanted to use the boy as his page.

Nature is constantly changing, and many books make use of this fact to give it more dimension. Between its use of animals and weather, Macbeth is no exception to this trend. Shakespeare explores social order and the effect of switching it around by bringing in two examples of order among animals. He also incorporates changing weather, and its strikingly similar to Macbeth. In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses nature to parallel the developments of the play as fair turns foul and foul turns fair.

The first requirement for a legitimate state is that they provide protection for the people’s rights. Whether it be conventional rights or moral rights, the state should give more protection than without a state at all.

Many writers use a country setting to establish values within a work of literature. The use of a country setting is apparent in William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The play consists of a group of lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena. Hermia and Lysander love each other. Demetrius is loved by Helena who he used to love but has now moved on to loving Hermia.

7. Both Hermia and Lysander will run away to his aunts house away from the reaches of Athenian law and be engaged