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Research Paper On A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A midsummer night’s dream

"A Midsummer Night's dream" is one of the most frequently performed Shakespeare's comedy adaptation is the most popular，Many people have come into contact with Shakespeare through the "midsummer night's dream”.

In recent decades, the composition of containing dream because, so many psychological analysis of the master's favor. Because the content mention father intention master daughter, the desire to control the Cassiopeia, so some cite feminism to discuss this.

The description of Athens City couple Hermia and Lysander, Hermia’s father opposed them together, he asked the Duke ordered to if Hermia won't marry Demetrius, she will be sentenced to death. Hermia love Lysander deeply, and because her best friend Helena loved Demetrius , so she did not want to obey his father's orders. Hermia and Lysander decided to escape from Athens, and Demetrius and Helena followed them. …show more content…

But due to all sorts of accidental mishaps, Duck mistaken object, he drop the water on Lysander's eye，made Lysander fell in love with Helena. Oleron knew that after the mistake, quickly put the water into Demetrius’s eyes made him also loves Helena, then put the antidote poured into Lysander's eyes dispel magic, let Demetrius continue to crush Helena.

The forest represents passion, anxiety, confusion, undisciplined, hidden many unpredictable factors, and even the crisis of identity misplacement. It's like a troubled dream. The space-time is quite different from the real world. The city of Athens, representing the social mechanism and the order of social operation, can resolve all the

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