A Midsummer Night's Dream Essays

Midsummer Night’s Dream is a Shakespearian comedic play with three separate, converging story lines. The story lines consist of a love feud, chaos in the fairy kingdom, and a group of struggling actors in Athens. The love arc consists of four lovers: Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena. Lysander and Demetrius both love Hermia and Hermia wants to be with Lysander, meanwhile, Helena hopes to regain Demetrius’s affection. The fairy arc is a feud between king Oberon and Queen Titania; the two accuse

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Romantic Comedy Written by William Shakespeare in the year 1595, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of William Shakespeare’s featured play’s that utilizes elements of comedy. Throughout the play, various forms of comedy are used to captivate the reader, and further immerse him/her in the play to the point where the reader can’t help but to keep reading to find out what happens next. In Acts I, III, and V we see a strong element of character comedy. Character comedy

The Shakespeare classic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, grabbed my attention when we read through the summer reading list in class. I’ve read Romeo and Juliet in class, and have read Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost on my own time. However, I did not enjoy any of them. When I saw this play on our summer reading list, I decided to try it out. I wanted to see if I really did, or did not, enjoy Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s play is begun is Athens, where Theseus is duke and Egeus is a lord. Hippolyta, the

A Midsummer Night’s Dream has several themes but there is one that stands out to me. There are many conflicts throughout the play but a majority of them are caused by one character. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare brilliantly displays how love is never clear cut by his use of Puck’s character (who is always muddling everything up). *ADD QUOTES* (after every line break, you need a slash) Puck is a character that is meant for disaster. He is in the story to be a comedic relief

How the real and the imagined worlds are explored in a Midsummer Night’s Dream. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” written by William Shakespeare in 1595, shows us fantastical elements and a griping narrative that demonstrations the values of both the real and imagined world and what links them together. The play has been read and watched for the four decades. Values are very important in both the real and imagined world. In the real world (Athens) there are values that we would see today such as, following

The distinction between reality and dreams can be a fine line, often confounding our perceptions of what is real and what simply appears to be. Shakespeare’s mystical play A Midsummer Night’s Dream examines this concept as the worlds of law and desire struggle against each other. The four main storylines of the play: the royal wedding, the four lovers, the fairies, and the rude mechanicals quickly become entangled in a mix of magic and love. At the head of this chaos is Puck, the fairy servant who

Does the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream lean toward reality or dreams? There are many ways to look at this play, but one cannot help but wonder if the magic that takes place is meant to be seen as real or just a dream. In the end, the world of dreams wins. The first act begins with a fairly realistic tone as it opens with Theseus and Hippolyta talking. Throughout the play they represent daylight—the mature reality of love. Theseus has just won Hippolyta’s hand in marriage through war. There

A Midsummer Night’s Dream transformed and modernized into the 1960’s certainly wasn’t anything I would’ve dreamt of. On October 24, I attended Diamond Bar High School Theater’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” written by William Shakespeare. The plot of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is about two different couples, Lysander and Hermia (Riley Mawhorter and Chloe Reyes), and Demetrius and Helena (Jonah Martinez and Katarina Avalos), who were all being tricked by fairies. And it’s one of those

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

A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes place in the Athens, the capital city of ancient Greece. The plot of the story revolves around Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena. Both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Hermia. Hermia is in love with Lysander and Helena is in love with Demetrius. However, Egeus, Hermia’s father, wants her to marry Demetrius. She refuses and is faced with the prospect of being forced to live the rest of her life as a nun or execution. Lysander and Hermia decide to elope

Life is complicated; no matter what you do or what you try. Problems come all the time, and those problems are the ones who make life better because everyone learns from them. This book “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” created by William Shakespeare is about when Duke Theseus and Hippolyta(the queen of the Amazons) were preparing everything for their wedding. During this, Egeus and his daughter Hermia are having troubles because Hermia wants to marry Lysander but Egeus is forcing her to marry Demetrius(who’s

do they know they are not alone in the forest. Nick Bottom and his mechanicals are rehearsing to perform at the royal wedding. And beyond the humans a group of mischievous fairies. In Evans’ shortened, 90-minute version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, an 8

Weird, unusual, different. These are all the words we can use to describe the book A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. In the book, Bottom gets turned into a donkey, which you don’t see very often. Lysander shows that love is strong when he shows love to Hermia in the play and when he shows love to Helena. Lysander is a regular person who loves girls and wants to be with them. However, Hermia’s father did not want this marriage to happen because he wanted Hermia to marry Demetrius

Characters The Athenians Theseus – Duke of Athens Hippolyta – Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus Philostrate – Master of the Revels Egeus – father of Hermia, wants her to marry Demetrius Hermia – in love with Lysander Helena – in love with Demetrius Lysander – in love with Hermia Demetrius – in love with Hermia at first but later loves Helena The Fairies Oberon – Titania's husband and King of the Fairies Titania – Oberon's wife and Queen of the Fairies Robin Goodfellow/Puck

One of the most popular comedies written by William Shakespeare, a famous playwright of the 16th and 17th century who enthralled audiences with his work, is the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. The play tells of the misunderstanding and trials faced by young lovers who are thwarted by people and situations who are resolute to destroy their relationship. The play’s focus is on Hermia and Lysander, two people frantically in love. Yet the course of true love does not run smoothly for these two. Hermia’s

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, takes the audience on a wild and confusing ride through the human unconscious. From the play within the play, to fairies causing mayhem, what is to be considered reality? The notion of falling asleep and dreaming is introduced over and over in the play, and leaves the audience wondering, is any of this real? Throughout this paper, I will attempt to explain the parallels between Shakespeare’s work, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the work of the Austrian

In William Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” there are various literary devices displayed throughout the play, in particular Act 2 Scene 1. Many pictures, quotes and short descriptions are able to depict these attributes and are displayed within the collage. One of the few purposes of this scene in the play is to introduce the fairies to the audience. This is important as the fairy’s play a large role in propelling the plot forward to its conclusion. The fairies are derived from characters

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is one of many famous works written by William Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the 17th century. It tells a story of eight lovers, four of which simply cannot get along, as two people love the same person and one is left out. However you can learn quite a bit from this story, all you have to do is look closely. Theseus, the duke of Athens, is preparing for his marriage to the queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. Egeus, an Athenian nobleman comes into Theseus’ wedding

A dream is a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occuring in a person’s mind during sleep. Love is a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties. Love and dreams go hand in hand and in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, love takes on many of the characteristics of dreams and the two are almost indiscernible. Some characteristics of dreams are nightmarish, possibly peaceful, short-lived, exaggerated, able to foretell the future, supernatural, uncontrollable, and that they have

essay, I will be discussing two of Shakespeare’s plays, Richard II and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with particular reference to source material and genre expectation respectively. Both plays are interesting, with regards to their relationship with either the original source material for the play, or the expectations of the genre with which they are tied to. In the following paragraphs, I will be discussing A Midsummer Night’s Dream in relation to source material, The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe (from