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Archetypes In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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How can a play and a text portray the same theme? Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and O. Henry’s “Princess and the Puma” share a universal theme of love. William Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” follows a series of characters as they embark on a journey to find love, lose it, and find it again with another in a confusing comedy. “Princess and the Puma'' tells the story of a young man who tries to impress his love by lying to her. Both stories use characters, plot, and format to develop a theme that shows us that love can make us do crazy and unlikely things. The authors use character archetypes to develop the theme of love. In the play, “MSND,” the two lovers, Hermia, and Lysander, decide to run away from their families and …show more content…

This is a pretty irrational thing to do, just because they are in love. They portray the “lover” archetype. Likewise, in “PAP,” Ripley does not want to seem weak or chicken in front of his crush, so he makes up a huge lie about why he did not try to kill the lion, which also is an irrational decision. Ripley also portrays the “lover” archetype that developed the theme. The authors also use plot to develop the theme of love. In Shakespeare’s play, Hermia can't decide between the man she wants to marry, Lysander, or fulfilling her family’s wishes of marrying Demetrius, so she decides to run away with Lysander. Hermia entrusts her best friend Helena with her plan, but Helena could not be trusted because she was blinded by her love for Demetrius. Helena tells her best friend and follows Demetrius into the woods, just to prove her love for him. However, in “PAP” plot is used differently to portray love. Josefa, the princess, does not love Ripley, a young cowboy. Ripley has a crush on her though, but when they are faced with danger, Ripley gets scared, so Josefa handles the problem. Ripley lies to her about why he chickened out, and this makes Josefa love him

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