A Midsummer Night's Dream

One of the most fascinating characters in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow. In English and Celtic folklore, the word “Pouk” was a medieval term for the devil: “Robin Goodfellow” was also a nickname for the devil. Although Puck shows antagonistic qualities, many critics believe Puck to be the closest thing to a protagonist A Midsummer Night’s Dream has. Puck is the only character that is directly involved in all of the action that takes place

Dreams In A Midsummer Night's Dream A dream is a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during slumber. They are at the same time both realistic and unrealistic. Dreams play a huge role in A Midsummer Night's Dream, because after being affected by the love juice, the characters always think they were dreaming. This is an appropriate metaphor for describing what happens to the characters in the play because the love juice puts them in situations which are both real

In the play of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” it has an agitator, a mischief-maker, and a snake which is Puck. Based off of the things in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Puck is the cause and the reason behind all of the problems in the play. Puck created chaos between the lovers in the play, Puck is also is the reason why bottom really started acting like a “ass”, and how Puck has shown that he is the protagonist in the play based off of his actions. In Act 2, Scene 1, Puck gets a flower so that Oberon

Understanding A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare. The play is about a group of young adults that have fallen in love and the king and queen, as well as the king and queen of the fairies of the fairies attempting to make the right people fall in love while trying to get their marriage back together. After accidentally making the wrong people fall in love. As the play progresses the king of the mortals is planning to get married and has

Alas, love can be a great source of confusion and sorrow, but it is nevertheless probably the most powerful feeling a human being can experience. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lysander says that “the course of true love never did run smooth” (Shakespeare 1.1.134), which is seen in the quarrels between the couples throughout the play. Shakespeare makes use chiefly of the fairies’ supernatural powers to settle the love conflicts and portrays the irrationality in love of the characters

Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare is a story about the patriarchal relationships between the two chracters and it explains how men use their authority on the women because they think themselves are superior to women. In Midsummer Night’s Dream has Patriarchal laws. The relationship between king and queen of fairies is not good and it is not like any two married wife and husband, and like that the relationship between Hermia and her father (Agues) is very ugly because her father is very strict

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a tale surrounding the love of a couple forbade to wed and the misadventures following their resolution to elope. The story follows different characters of varying scopes throughout the night that all encounter some level of magical interference to their lives. The following analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream explores the role of magic within the play, and how it affected each of the principle characters. “The use and misuse of magic has an important

In William Shakespeare’s famous play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theseus and Hippolyta plan to marry in four days. Lysander and Hermia run away to elope so she can avoid her father’s pick for her, Demetrius. He follows them and is followed by Helena. Oberon, the fairy king, squeezes a magical potion onto his wife Titania’s eyes so that he may have the baby currently in her care for his court, and she will fall in love with the first living creature she sees. However, Puck causes some extra mischief

Rough Draft One of the last Shakespearean works of Elizabethan England, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is laced with a progressive line of feminism, which is coupled with an air of sexual freedom that would have been very much in line with the views of the ageing monarch, and may have been written as a tribute to her rule. Although such a feat would be considered remarkably progressive at the time, Shakespeare's conservative plebeian audience still obligated him to include a more traditional ending.

discrepancies of human life are seemingly simplistic and, to an extent, comical as seen in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Our constant turmoil and strife due to trivial standards can be seen as humorous to even the most unamused. However, a deeper insight into the way in which we view life itself reveals a more profound understanding of the world around us. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the audience was able to clearly see numerous incongruities between four primary characters: Lysander,