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A Midsummer Night's Dream Diary Entry Essay

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Journal Entry 1 Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. New York: Barns & Noble, 2007. Print. Acts 1 and 2, Pages 20-111 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 a duke and Egeus is a lord. Hippolyta, the amazon queen, is to be wed to Theseus. The setting does change to a forest off Athens later. Egeus wishes his daughter, …show more content…

For now, I’d like to remain neutral on the topic. Shakespeare has always seemed, to me, something you have to like to be “an intellectual.” So, I avoided Shakespeare at first, not wanting to form an opinion on him until I was older. When I finally did read a few of his plays, I hated them. They were tedious to read, and the plot was always boring, old fashioned, and outdated. I’ve appreciated A Midsummer Night’s Dream more than I usually appreciate Shakespeare, but not enough to say I like the book yet. It’s still very tedious to read Shakespearean script, and the plot is still a bit dull for modern times. However, I don’t hate the story, it’s keeping my attention decently, and isn’t nearly as boring as Romeo and Juliet. I’ll wait to form a strong opinion until the end of the …show more content…

However, the conflict has been made much more complicated by the ending of Act two and the entirety of Act three. The original problem, was that Demetrius and Lysander love, Hermia loves Lysander, and Helena loves Demetrius. At the end of Act three, a lot was changed, Hermia still loves Lysander, and Helena still loves Demetrius, but the two men now love Helena. This is a brand new conflict and it makes the story more interesting. Honestly, the ending of this play is most likely pretty predictable. I assume that Oberon and Titania resolve their issues, and make up. Robin will have fixed the young Athenians so that Hermia and Lysander love each other, and Demetrius and Helena love each other. What I’m hoping for, is for the play that Bottom and the others are working on, to be actually be acted out in the play. From a personal standpoint, I think that would be really meta. Since A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy, I expect a happy, silly ending. Journal

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