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Robin Goodfellock In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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“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. Puck is not as boring as the play’s other fairies, he is exciting, prone to misadventure and somewhat goblin-like. One of the fairies describes Puck as a “hobgoblin” and As his “hobgoblin” reputation suggests, Puck is fun-loving and quick-witted – and thanks to this mischievous nature, he triggers many of the play’s most memorable events. Bottom is unique from all the other human characters of the play not only because of his enthuiastic, dimwitted personality, but because he is the only character able to enter fully in to both the human world and the …show more content…

Both Puck and Bottom give a serious comic relief to this somewhat serious story and is a comedian in his own way. Puck's comedy is often at the expense of others, while Bottom's comedy is fueled by his ignorance, it's like almost everything he does is considered hilarious by the audience because of his constant mixing of words, lack of talent, and overly enthusiastic personality. Not only are they good comedic relief, but they have more of an importance to the play because are the only two characters who interact with and progress the three central stories in the whole

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is about two lovers who can’t be together because Hermia’s father won’t let her and Lysander get married so they try to run away. Shakespeare was influenced through many things that led him to writing the play. The play was a counterpart to Romeo and Juliet. The Pyramus and Thisbe story is also connected to the play. Midsummer Night’s Dream has a lot background and historical context.

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Many authors have published articles that treats the subject based upon one aspect of the play. One important element of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the disparity that is distinguished between reality and a world inhabited by fairies and other magical beings and forces.

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck applies the love potion to Lysander (who was sleeping near Hermia). Later, he realizes he made a mistake when he saw Hermia, “but not [Lysander]” (Shakespeare 3.2. lines 41). In this scene, Lysander’s eyes were streaked with the love potion instead of Demetrius, and Lysander fell in love with Hermia when she woke him up. This situation employs the situational archetype of supernatural intervention through Puck’s mistake in applying the love potion, leading to absurd and chaotic situations where characters fall in love with the wrong people.

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In the Shakespearean novel A Midsummer Night’s Dream Puck has lose his humanity and gain wickedness. Do you think Puck one of the most memorable character in the story A Midsummer Night 's Dream? Puck has been the root of all of the problems in the story. Puck controls the love between the mortals. The point I’m trying the prove is the Puck has the fate of the mortals in his hands.

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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.

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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.

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Dreams are wild, magical, and mysterious. The majority of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is spent in a heavily wooded forest full of fairies and irrational young lovers, creating a night only fallible as a dream. The story contains a royal wedding about to take place and the young lovers Hermia and Lysander provoked to eloping because Hermia’s father will only let her marry Demetrius. Hermia’s best friend Helena, who loves Demetrius, tells Demetrius Hermia and Lysander’s plot to escape to the forest nearby so that she may follow him. Local townsmen also decide to meet in the forest to rehearse for a play to be performed at the royal wedding.

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