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. /
Power, privilege, and the false persona that comes along with it clouded Bottom’s judgement in this passage from the play, “ A Midsummer's Night Dream,”. He went from being a mild mannered hard working weaver to becoming a spoiled, entitled aristocrat, and back. As Bottom says, “Scratch my head Peaseblossom. Where's Monsieur Cobweb?”, he is using words like monsieur that he would not be using before his change. Bottom also, has servants at his command is acting like a king commanding them to feel his ears, get him food, and do his busy work.
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.
William Shakespeare creates a theme of a common dream within the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the main character’s dreams focus on the premise of love. If Egeus’ dreams were fulfilled than his daughter, Hermia, would marry Demetrius, the suitor that he has chosen for her, but Hermia dreams of marrying Lysander and his feelings are mutual. While Demetrius wishes to comply to Egeus and marry Hermia, Helena dreams of spending her life with Demetrius. The Duke, Theseus, and Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazon, also wish to marry one another. Even the fairy world is incorporated in this theme.
After completing, presenting and seeing the final performance of act 1, scene 5 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, I feel content and confident in how it turned out. I liked the musical theme and how the final performance had a variety of modern music from today, which made the production more upbeat and enjoyable to watch. Overall I feel our production went well. In the pitch, we promised that with the investments made into our acting company, we would invest more into the musical aspect and background sets. Since I was not at all familiar with how musicals work, I think I was successful at fulfilling the promise of including more singing in the production.
Lysander and Demetrius, Helena and Hermia, each of them switches roles and becomes the other person. One of the primary ways that Shakespeare indicates maturity is to make his characters distinct. At this stage of the play the lovers are clearly not yet mature enough in their love to escape from the forest. Puck makes this clear by the way he leads them around in circles until they all collapse in exhaustion. It is this interchanging that must be resolved before the lovers can fully exit from the forest.
Cason Smithey 1/13/23 Ms. Kucic 6th Period A Chaos and Confusion Sometimes control may be needed but it can also lead to chaos. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is about a couple who is forbidden from love and they decide to sneak into a forest and things don't really go as planned. Multiple Characters in this story are guilty of controlling other people. A controlling Father, A jealous king, And an overconfident clown
My group for this assignment consisted of Kirill, Olivea and Fahad. We chose the pages 83-89 of A Midsummer’s Night Dream to bring to life. In this part of the book, Puck and Oberon realize they messed up. Then, Hermia accuses Demetrius of killing Lysander. Finally, Oberon and Puck both try to fix their mistake.
Some people feel that it`s quite challenging locating differences between a written story and its film, though, however, some people find it considerably simple to detect differences between the pair. A Midsummer Nights Dream was undoubtedly great cinematic film made in 1999. However, the written play of A Midsummer Nights Dream was much more detailed and more informational. The differences I noticed were the following: The Indian boy and his role, the setting, characters and examples of similarities. First of all, the primary anomaly I noticed implies the Indian boy and his role during the piece.
Humans make many choices in life, but every single decision leads down to one end, even if they do not realize or do not expect how it will turn out. However, every person’s decision will fall into place and lead to their fate. In the story A Midnight Summer’s Dream, William Shakespeare shows the effect fate has on everyone’s life. Set in the Greek times, the main characters, Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius, Oberon, and Titania are all in a big love circle with fighting, and people loving different people. While going through this confusing time, they start to figure out what their fate in fact is, even if it is something they did not expect, and most come to understand that they cannot change it and that no one should mess with it.
Philosophical approach on the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream Submitted to: Prof. Eliezer V. David Submitted by: Jan MarveManaligod KristianDacara Bryan RonhellTangonan MarckRacell Diego BSME-2C Philosophy is the study of the theoretical basis of a particular branch of knowledge or experience. In every story there is a philosophy. It is the way of the author to show the moral lesson of the play.
The theme of dreams is very important in the Midsummer Night’s Dream play by William Shakespeare. The dreams in this play help emphasize the meaning of the play. Hippolyta’s first words in the play evidence the prevalence of dreams (“Four days will quickly steep themselves in night, / Four nights will quickly dream away the time”), and various characters mention dreams throughout the play as well. Shakespeare managed to present ideas of dreaming brilliantly throughout the play.
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” The title suggests an atmosphere of fantasy and imagination, which is a pretty accurate description of the magical woods where characters experience events that seem more like a dream than reality. Shakespeare wanted the audience to capture the feeling of fantasy and reality. What is this word that people use that they call “love?” Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. This word seems like such a small word but in all reality, the word is strong.
This is what the lovers wanted at the beginning of the story; to marry the one they love. And with Theseus bringing final closure and order to what chaos occurred in the forest, the four lovers will get married along side Theseus and Hippolyta back at Athens. In the forest outside of Athens, chaos and order are present throughout the plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the forest, the fairies attempt to manipulate the love between the lovers and bring chaos upon them.
