A Midsummer Night's Dream Essays

Midsummer Night's Dream “"You simply cannot control other people's thoughts or actions and you can't even necessarily control your own thoughts and feelings... All you can do is make your choices of what you do with your life and what your actions are and sometimes when you do let things go and you're more passive or more active” (Tobey). What this quote means is that no one has control over other people’s actions and that you can only control yourself, you should allow things to happen on their

Melanie Hernandez Mrs. Kineman English 10 Honors August 11, 2015 A Midsummer Night’s Dream The pursuit of love can make us irrational, foolish idiots. In the play “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream” show “The course of love never did run smooth”. Love is complicated and can make people do foolish things. Are they implying that their love is foolish because they are young or that foolishness is naturally expected from someone in love? It can be seen that the young Athenian lovers that their love for

Uranus’ moons are named after the characters A Midsummer Night’s Dream; namely, Titania, Oberon and Puck. A single planet, Uranus, connects each of these moons and these moons affect Uranus equally though the constant lunar revolutions. Similarly, Titania, Oberon and Puck are connected by the single fact that they live in the forest and the forest affects their actions. To the different characters, the moon is a perfect icon for A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the play itself is largely about subjectivity

In “A Midsummer Night's Dream” is a play with light comedy. Traces the romantic getaways of four young Athenian lovers; Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena who were in the woods trying to escape from the life they didn’t want. Theseus, Duke of Athens, is preparing for his marriage to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, a four-day festival and entertainment to everybody in the palace. Egeus a nobleman, walks into Theseus’s court with his daughter, Hermia, and two men, Demetrius and Lysander. Egeus

In the play A Mid Summer Nights Dream there are many characters who teach us different life lessons. The characters that teach us the most important lessons are Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, Helena, Robin, And oberon. Out of all these characters I think one teaches us a very important life lesson. The character I am speaking of is Lysander. Throughout the whole play Lysander constantly showed the audience that you should never stop believing. The first time this theme appeared was in act 1 scene 1

A Midsummer’s Night Dream, possesses four different perspectives of one intertwined plot. It begins with Hippolyta and Theseus planning their wedding. Then, the conflict is introduced where a young woman, Hermia, has to choose between marrying a man she does not love, Demetrius, or being punished by death or becoming a nun for disobeying her father because she loves another, Lysander. There is also a woman, Helena, who is in love with Demetrius, but he does not feel the same towards her. These young

Nick Bottom, or Bottom as he is commonly referred to, is a focal character of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare that plays a part in all three storylines. Several times throughout the play, Bottom’s arrogance is highlighted. Bottom believes that he is a very good actor and director, even better than the others performing and directing the play as can be seen when Bottom tells Quince to let him play more characters in the play and when he says that the play has “things that will never

All meaningful relationships are based on trust. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, however, the characters jeopardize their relationships with others by breaking the trust that bonds them together. They betray each other knowingly and unknowingly. In the play, it is evident that it is not acceptable to betray others to serve personal needs, for the characters blindly chase love, use their authority to daunt others, and let the power of magic sway their morals. Firstly, the rash

In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Shakespeare, we are introduced to many characters. There are many “main” characters and an example of two would be Helena and Hermia. In many ways the two women are very similar. However, throughout the play, we notice several ways they differ. For starters, they are the same gender and they happened to grow up together. Helena and Hermia were best friends until the men came along and forced them apart. They also get confused by the same men. Lysander and Demetrius

It is common for stories to use love to create a conflict. It creates tension in the story and can also convey a idea about love. The play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, is one of these wide array of stories which use such conflicts. In fact, most of the conflicts in the play stem from the troubles of love. Some romantic problems in the play include arranged marriages and imbalance. The four lovers, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena, have a complicated relationship. Helena