A Midsummer Night's Dream: Hidden Subtexts

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Would you believe that much of your entertainment is filled to the brim with encouragement for the use of drugs, sexist behavior, and even slavery. It is important to recognize the hidden subtexts in our entertainment because many of them have very dark hidden meanings that may be subliminally sneaking into your conscious if you are not aware of it. For example Scooby Doo, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and even Shakespeare's classic play A Midsummer Night's Dream are all examples of media with hidden subtexts. The classic cartoon show Scooby Doo is filled to the brim with subliminal drug usage. In Scooby Doo you have four teenagers and a dog trying to solve mysteries. Two important characters are Shaggy a lanky, easily spooked, empty headed teen and Scooby is a dog that can speak pretty fluent english with a thick accent(Hanna). This is the first problem: dogs can't talk but it could just be a hallucination from drug use. Another point is that Shaggy and Scooby are always hungry. Maybe it's because they're getting the munchies from all of the drugs they’re taking. Scooby and Shaggy have three friends that help with the mystery solving. The criminals they are catching are usually just a man in a …show more content…

For example, in the beginning of the play Hermia wants to marry her lover, Lysander, but her father wants her to marry Demetrius even though they’re are in the same class. She takes this up with Theseus the king of Athens he says she had three options marry demetrius, become a nun, or death. Later in the play we’re introduced to Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of the fairies who are arguing about who gets the child given to the queen from a priestess. Guess what? The king gets the child in the end with no consequences! This is blatantly sexist because the men always win whatever arguments they make and always get what they

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