During our script reading of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” I’ve had different impressions of characters and themes brought up. The play begins in Athens where Don Theseus is preparing for his marriage to Hippolyta, four days from the beginning. During his preparation he is approached by Egeus, a father who is asking for enforcement of his arranged marriage for his daughter Hermia and her chosen husband Demetrius. Hermia fights this because she’s in love with Lysander, but the Don agrees with her father, leaving her and Lysander to plan to elope and run away with one another. Hermia tells Helena, her best friend who’s hopelessly in love with Demetrius, of her plans before heading home to prepare for their wedding, leaving Helena to mope before …show more content…
He makes Puck, his jester and right-hand, obtain a man and turn him into a donkey, who ends up being Nick bottom, the weaver and aspiring actor who was near the woods with his other playfellows. Titania falls in love with Bottom and Oberon obtains the boy, but not before telling Puck to help the lovers by putting the potion of Demetrius. This plan fails and both Demetrius and Lysander fall in love with Helena before Oberon corrects it as well as Titania’s love focus back to him and Bottom back to normal. The play ends with Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena, and Theseus and Hippolyta marrying and watching the play performed by Bottom and the other rude mechanicals. The language used in the play, while being confusing due to the difference Shakespearean dialect and modern speech, is straightforward in ideas and comparisons, such as in the discussion between Hermia, Egeus, and Theseus at the beginning of Act One Scene One as well as the “play within a play” at the end of Act Five. The characters within the play may not all have a direct relation with one another, but eventually they all connect; whether it be through romance, work, or even through just where they live, they somehow