Melisa Pierre-Louis Professor Brett English 10 December 2nd, 2016 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Annotated essay. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is a comedy that contains a lot of aspects. They communicate in one way or another to the audience, depending on how we (the audience) analyze what Shakespeare is trying to convey.
In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia's love triangle with Lysander and Demetrius is a complex interplay of both fate and agency. Throughout the play, Hermia demonstrates a strong sense of agency in shaping her own romantic fate, while also being subject to the whims of fate and the supernatural forces at play. One example of Hermia's agency is her defiance of her father's wishes for her to marry Demetrius. In Act 1, Scene 1, she says, "I do entreat your grace to pardon me. /
For this close reading assignment, I analyze the first passage of the handout from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As I read the passage I noticed immediately some different literary device and structures that I will unpack and explain throughout this short essay. I will mainly analyze the rhyming structure and the vivid imagery and descriptive words that Shakespeare uses in the passage; as well as what I think is achieved by the use of those devices. Starting right from the beginning I noticed an interesting rhythmic structure throughout the passage, the rhyming couplets of this passage suggest to me that it could be performed in a steady moderate or a vigorous pace.
Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream film adaptation creates a fantastical spin on the well-known Shakespeare play. The director is able to create an effective dream-like setting with the use of projections, lighting, and puppetry. From the beginning, there is a sense of wonder created, as without word or introduction, Puck, played by Kathryn Hunter, glides onto stage and lays down on a mattress supported by branches. Puck is then lifted into the air and a large white sheet consumes the stage. Even for those familiar with the play, such as myself, it immediately commands your mind to travel to the dream world Taymor has created.
In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania and Oberon show the thematic idea of complicated love, because love has its ups and downs. Oberon and Titania see each other for the first time in a while and Oberon says, “Tarry, rash wanton. Am not I thy lord?” (2.1.63). This quote shows that Titania and Oberon hate each other so much.
A Midsummer Night 's Dream is the apotheosis of a free, self-determined love which transcends tradition, the ancient law of Athens, and paternal authority. Schematically, the play is a masque. Shakespeare does not destroy its form, as in the case of the pastoral in As You Like It, but uses another method. The formal, ancient mythology is supplanted by plebeian superstitions (fairies, the mischievous Puck). Shakespeare instills vital emotion into the tenuous scheme of the affected court masque.
Rebellious for Love Persistence, rebellious, romantic are things that are incorporated in A Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare. A Midsummer’s Night Dream is about lovers that get into some trouble in the woods with some Fairies, the first place the lovers were in the forest was because Hermia and Lysander were going to Lysander's aunt's house to get married in secret. Hermia is the Daughter of Egeus who is maker Hermia marry Demetrius. Hermia take love very seriously due to her love for Lysander and not Demetrius. Hermia would rather die than marry Demetrius because she loves Lysander more.
In the real world, love is a very fragile force. Love can be easily broken and manipulated by multiple other outside forces. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the two most basic themes are the chaos and order that are the causes of all the actions that take place. Chaos versus order in A Midsummer Night’s Dream also is a representation of Yin and Yang. Yin, represents the bad or darkness in the world, this is the chaos in the play.
Simon Kwak One Conversation Benchmark One First entry: A Midsummer Night 's Dream 10/21 1. Cultural/Historical context: I discovered that the play was written by William Shakespeare around 1590-1597. The reason why publish date is not clear is due to some information about Shakespeare and his works were not recorded properly, but there are few facts and theories that are clear. One important event that may be related to why this play was written might have been it was for an aristocratic wedding of Lady Berkeley, or Elizabeth Carey.
Robin Goodfellow, better known as Puck, is a servant of the fairy king, Oberon, and also a well-known trickster. Throughout the play, readers/audience see how his tricks and folly affect the other characters in the play, such as his mix-up between Lysander and Demetrius, his spell on Bottom, and how he has fixed everything. The significance of his actions shows how he could be the play’s protagonist, despite there being different sets of characters. In a story, the actions of the protagonist are typically the ones that determine the plot, even if it is simply a mistake.
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” is a comedy written by shakespear around 1594 or 95. It tells the story of four young lovers whos love life is like an emotional roller coaster, a group of Merchants who want to become famous actors, Woodland Fairies who's help doesn't really help at all, and A king who is really excited to marry his Queen. The play is set in a mythical Athens and forest that the Fairy-Folk call home. All of the characters have their own moments in the play and are important in their own way, but the two that people can remember by heart are Robin Goodfellow (Puck) and Nick Bottom. Puck is probably the play’s most adorable character and stands out from the other fairies that drift in and out of the play.
Robin Goodfellow often considered the “heart and soul of the play” (In text citation) helps his master, although, causing much trouble in between, sort the lovers out. The reader is first introduced to Robin Goodfellow when he comes upon a fairy serving the fairy queen Titania. Robin proclaims that King Oberon is having festivities in that particular part of the woods. The fairy then realises who the puck is and gives us an immediate indirect characterization. He declares Robin as an impish and mischievous elf and goes on to list his mischievous antics, “skim{s} milk,and sometimes labour in the quern, And the bootless make the breathless housewife churn” (Shakespeare, 56, Sc. I. Act II, Ln 36-37).
In all modern forms of media (cartoons, movies, books), the distinction between the mind and the heart is always prevalent. Oftentimes, characters have to make a decision that involves choosing what their heart wants, not what their mind wants; or being instructed by antagonists to do the opposite. Humans have always had difficulties making decisions that satisfy themselves, while also doing what those around them want. Through these struggles, the media we are absorbing takes us on a journey through the landscape of a human’s mind, where the battle between primal, subconscious urges are present via struggles of the heart, while the necessity to be severe and follow laws are upheld with the intellectual brain. In William Shakespeare's play
The use and misuse of magic are of great importance in the play, A Midsummer Night 's Dream. It is a recurring theme that is mostly seen with Puck. The use of magic by Puck helps in creating conflict, humor, and balance in play. Shakespeare employs this device in his play to mainly build and establish the theme of love. The role of magic in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is seen as an interference with the human world, however it is still separate from the human protagonists (Noone, 2010).
With many of the different scenes throughout the play, the theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is that love is difficult. In the play when Hermia 's father tries to tear Hermia and Lysander
