A Midsummer's Night's Dream Essays

Submitted By locohotcoco

Words: 445

Pages: 2

Open Document

By the end of Act Two, in the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, the character pairs: Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena, and Oberon and Titania are similar because nobody loves the other. Lysander and Hermia were supposed to run away together to get married, but while Lysander was sleeping his eyes were anointed by a flower that had Cupid’s love potion on it and the first person he sees, he will fall in love with. But Hermia wasn’t the first person he woke up too, even though she only about six feet away, Helena was. Helena was roaming the woods looking for Demetrius when she stumbled upon Lysander and thought he was dead. So now Lysander loves Helena while she loves Demetrius. Demetrius, on the other hand, is in love with Hermia and he has her father’s approval to marry her but Hermia is in love with Lysander, so she will have a great surprise when she finds out that her soon-to-be husband is now in love with her best friend. Oberon and Titania are King and Queen of the fairies. Oberon is still in love with Titania even though he cheated on her with Hippolyta, who is getting married in 4 days. But Tiania is ignoring Oberon and focusing all her time and attention on her late friend’s indian son. By the end of Act Two, Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena, and Oberon and Titania are very much alike. One character loves another but the other character loves another who loves another.

The magical flower that contains Cupid’s love potion acts as a metaphor for the way infatuation acts in real life

Worlds Collide: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Question2: Worlds Collide: A Midsummers Night’s Dream focuses on explaining how crazy and illogical love really is. To convey these themes Shakespeare uses two different settings in the play to show the contrasts. One is Athens, the rational world, and the other is the forest, the irrational world. The play takes place on midsummer’s night’s eve, a time of mayhem and chaos. A Midsummer’s night’s dream has a convoluted plot of intricate characters and a spider web of relationships. Shakespeare…

Words 546 - Pages 3

Symbols In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love is like a dream- it’s magical and wild and unpredictable, it forces us to behave in ways that are absurd and irrational, and it radically changes our perceptions of other people and our own reality. Dreams are considered a very important symbol in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Dreams are used as an extensive symbol because most of the play’s atmosphere has a dream-like feeling. For example, the setting takes place in a magical forest with wild elements, including fairies with…

Words 248 - Pages 1

Compare The Image Of Magic In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Kelley K. Melancon English II Honors 18 March 2013 Compare The Image Of Magic In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare shows his great writing skills involving metaphors, imagery, and magic. This essay is written to prove how great and affective thee three things are in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In this play, the usage of metaphors. Imagery, and magic help readers better understand the writing. Shakespeare’s metaphors that were incorporated…

Words 677 - Pages 3

A Midsummer Night's Dream Patriarchy Analysis

In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer's Night Dream, Athens has a very strict patriarchy which helps maintain The Great Chain of Being. Despite this, Shakespeare grants the female characters’ agency throughout the play. The Great Chain of Being is a Renaissance concept wherein every being has a place assigned by God based on his or her ratio of spirit to mass. Consequently, God is at the top, then the Angels, followed by humans, animals, and lastly non-living things. Even within these divisions, there…

Words 159 - Pages 1

Forced Love In A Midsummer's Night Dream

William Shakespeare “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” was a composed play about a love affair that can be based on forced love. The unrealistic types of forced love are what Shakespeare uses to distinguish his character’s roles towards one another. Love, dreams and comedy are the three types of themes that mostly stand out in this play. These certain themes are what determines the formation of the play. Those private exposures and Shakespeare’s clever use of fairytales is what individuals in everyday life…

Words 817 - Pages 4

Human Behavior In Hamlet Essay

feels that humans never are truly being themselves. Human behavior is influenced by surroundings. Most people are only ever truly being themselves when they are completely isolated. Shakespeare’s plays Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and A Midsummer’s Night Dream have characters that have varying behaviors. Shakespeare is commenting on how humans do not have a true identity, because they can be easily influenced by outside forces. In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses Hamlet to show how behavior is determined…

Words 1114 - Pages 5

Shakespearian Comedy Essay

Ryan Hoffman 10/25/12 Shakespeare Friedberg Contesting Patriarchal Marriage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Marriage during Shakespeare’s time period was more than just a relationship between two willing parties but rather an arrangement for transferring property between families and generations of legitimate children. According to historian Lawrence Stone, “Marriage was used as an institutional device to ensure the perpetuation of the family and…

Words 1484 - Pages 6

Midsummer Night's Dream Compare And Contrast Pyramus And Thisbe

In the play Midsummer Night’s Dream there was Lysander and Hermia who loved each other but couldn't be together. When comparing them to a greek mythology story they are very similar to Pyramus and Thisbe. They have many similarities, but also some differences. It will be interesting to find out what impact they had on the play, because they were very important characters. Even though they are two different stories I think they compliment each other very well. In Pyramus and Thisbe’s original story…

Words 686 - Pages 3

Puck In A Midsummer's Night Dream

In the play, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Puck, the jester, is a very important and meaningful character. Puck is introduced in Act two as fairy who is playful. He creates many of the issues that happen throughout. He is the closest thing to the protagonist in the play. Puck uses his quick-witted and sly personality to mess with people. He likes to create trouble and make other fairies laugh. Puck is the jester of Oberon. His job is to make Oberon, the King of all fairies, laugh. In addition…

Words 859 - Pages 4