William Shakespeare 's ' The Bed '

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,

"I gouged his eyes out..." His eyes erupted into a cascade of sorrow as he silently sobbed. I could only stare for the longest time til my mind could comprehend the possibility.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a masterful piece of literature that both directly and indirectly comments on the reality of control and power in Western cultures. Shakespeare’s ability to depict human nature gives us insight into how English society functioned in his lifetime, but more importantly allows us to analyze our own perspective of ourselves and the world around us. One way Shakespeare articulates his ideas is through well constructed metaphors and similies, resulting in more powerful writing. One very significant metaphor is spoken by Theseus early on in Act 1, scene 1. Egeus has brought his daughter, Hermia, to the royal court to for Theseus’s opinion on Hermia’s marriage. Egeus has arranged for Hermia to marry Demetrius, a very worthy suitor, but Hermia is truly in love with another man, Lysander. This dilemna is explained to Theseus and he states, “To you your father should be as a god;/ One that composed your beauties, yea, and one/ To whom you are but as a form in wax/ By him imprinted and within his power/ To leave the figure or disfigure it” (I.i.51-55). In summary, Theseus is defending Egeus by saying Hermia was created by Egeus and his will determines her fate. Behind this metaphor is a simple idea that proves how a desire to control can have many unintended consequences as well as negative effects. In order to understand this concept more effectively, it is crucial to analyze how influence is structured socially. The quote demonstrates

Love is many things, and is also used as a reference to sight and vision such as blindness. It is much more than aesthetics and wields the power of sight, and can also cause chaos and destruction. Similarly, Shakespeare utilizes two types of blindness by love; the first being physical due to a love potion a fairy king, Oberon orders upon the humans in Shakespeare’s, A Midsummers Night’s Dream. The second, being metaphorical due to Antony’s immense amount of love towards Cleopatra, in which hinders his political motivation in Shakespeare’s, Antony and Cleopatra.

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been categorized as a comedy play because of all the characters being passionately in love to the point of being foolish. It’s a play all about love, and the characters that are in love are only young adults, so they are still naive when it comes to love. Their naivety and foolishness regarding love is what allows them to be taken advantage of by mischievous fairies when they all run away into the woods. By critiquing the love affairs and numerous misunderstandings that occur within the mystical woods, I argue that Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream portrays the characters’ young love as a foolish fantasy with drastic consequences.

Colonel Lambert looked at the General, “Alright, what can I do for you? I’m sure you’re not visiting to check on my health.” The Colonel said while smiling.

I kiss the paling violet lips frothing from mouth. I taste his fear against my tongue. “I’m sorry… I didn’t mean it.” I prop his head in my hands.

Roy awoke in the hospital, but felt like he was still sleeping. There was a smooth feeling. He felt as though he was drifting as he glided down the halls gazing into the rooms of suffocating eggshell rooms. He felt the dry and crisp air swim down his lungs. He could see the blinking lights and the running nurses, yet he could hear nothing. He felt so oblivious as Roy made the loop back to his room. He laid into the dry starchy sheets and felt as the dust rose around him. And suddenly he began to shrink. His body rose slightly up from the bed and he felt a fleeting sensation… He looked down to see his nimble hands shrink. He flew his skin get lose and then altogether it tightened, and Roy was standing in front of the pillow. His head barely matched the tip of the pillow. And he measured only four inches tall. He stood on the mattress and made beardy a dent. This was crazy and Roy was scared. Began to how and they felt a strong, warm wind. And soon it became more powerful, until he was pushed against the mattress. He looked up and saw the vent blowing down. He moved away from its range then shimmied down the side of

Shakespeare’s language usage in Midsummer Night’s Dream is full of strong metaphors to help emphasis important laws on human nature. A perfect example of a metaphor Shakespeare uses to shake up our understanding on people is when Hermia states, “That he hath turn’d a heaven unto a hell!” while exchanging words with Helena. This metaphor was used by Hermia in an attempt to explain the strength of her love for Lysander and to ease Helena’s uneasy mind. Her uneasy mind was apparent upon the initial greeting offered by Hermia. Instead of a formal greeting back, Helena begins complaining about how lovely Hermia’s features are. Concluding her rant, Helena asks Hermia for advice on how to win over Demetrius. Hermia, seeing Helena in clear distraught, attempts to ease her mind by telling Helena of her and Lysander’s plans to leave Athens. Upon doing so, she directly relates Athens to a “paradise” she once knew. The restrictions within Athens, preventing her from loving Lysander, has turned this “paradise” unto a “hell”. This is made clear to the reader when Hermia says, “Before the time I did Lysander see, / Seem 'd Athens as a paradise to me”. Hermia’s love for Lysander simply trumped her love for Paradise and in having to decide between the two, Hermia chooses Lysander. Throughout the rest of Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare consistently uses powerful metaphors, such as the one Hermia gave, within the dialect of the characters to draw conclusions on the chaotic and foolish

Jagger picks me up, an arm under my knees and one around my back, holding me, almost protectively, against his chest. Again, I stay perfectly limp, despite how close I am to him right now. I feel Jagger tense at the name, they called him. He’s a person, not some weird number. “Well, since my ability didn’t knock her out, like you were hoping, I didn’t really have a choice in the matter, unless you wanted her to kill me,” he growls. I bet he’s at gun point and that’s why he’s so

‘Don’t do this to me.’ My voice was small. The dread started to set in. ‘I don’t know what I would do if…’

"No! I must kill myself for what I have done!" He dramatically pulled a knife out and pointed it at his neck. "Wait! What are you doing?!" I shouted, before slapping the knife out of his hand. "You shouldn't kill yourself over one simple thing, you-" I saw his eyes, they looked like a dam holding back water was about to explode. He hugged me, before saying, "You're the kindest person I

Just like the way we think of it in today’s society, love, in a classical Shakespearean play is heavily influenced by other people. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written by William Shakespeare, is a very unique comedy in which love has a different definition with everyone in the play. The play portrays the adventures of four young lovers and a group called the mechanicals along with their interactions with woodland fairies and a duke and a duchess. This work is widely performed around the world, and it’s no wonder, it 's about the world 's most popular pastime, falling in love. But as the mischievous Puck knows, falling in love can make fools of us all. The message conveyed of the nature of love, in the play, is that no matter how hard you try, the control of love is out of your hands, but is in the hands of society.

In A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Shakespeare tells us a poet’s task is to transform “things unknown” to shapes that give “to airy nothing a local habitation and a name,” suggesting a defined context (“local habitation”) and words (“a name”) (5.1.65). Without a named place we live in a chaotic world. Likewise, without the development of language from a pool of amorphous sensations in our brain we cannot begin to approach creativity. Words and how they are used become tools to chisel meaning from undefined emotion. This process of making creative order out of chaos begins with the child’s sense of wonder and curiosity.

The mission was already a success, you said so yourself, and I figured instead of just disappearing and waking up here, I ought to do something that would make a difference. That choice would 've saved hundreds of our soldiers in a real battle, and I think that 's worth losing me for, don 't you? I thought you were supposed to teach us battle strategy, sir, not just how to accomplish our mission and run away."