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An Analysis Of A Midsummer Night's Dream By William Shakespeare

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The whole play was mainly two things humor and expressing an opinion. Through out the whole play Shakespeare made it clear and vivid what the story was going to consist. He shows the love between four characters, which have all been messed up and normally should be a very hot and heated storyline. However in this play he uses a lot of high comedy instead of low comedy to get rid of these tense situations. Let's look how!

He first introduces comedy into the play in ACT 1. The quote: "By all Vows that men ever broke.(In number than woman ever spoke)" is a first example of high comedy. We can see he's already joking about men how they break more vows that women can ever speak. Which later on could be true in the story. Also in the next ACT the quote: "I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus." would be an example of high comedy from showing that even in this tense situation he will kill her but asks for her not to haunt him (Demetrius). It's not ever true love is what we can see from this quote. …show more content…

what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamour'd of an ass." is really ironic and high comedy at the same time. The audience knows she had been "namour'd of an ass" which is ironic, but very funny how since she was under a spell did not know. As this quote that love can sometimes be blind. "I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me; to fright me, if they could." is another example of ironic and high comedy for the audience. We know they had made an ass out of Bottom, but of course he does not know of it. These quotes showing little instances of comedy for the

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