A Midsummer Night's Dream Research Paper

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The “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” play, deals with the difficulty of romance. Shakespeare’s voices about love through many of his plays. They contain a just amount of old prose. It is a recurring theme in Shakespeare’s plays, both comedies, and dramas. It is apparent that Shakespeare was infatuated with love. Shakespeare deliberately distances the audience from the emotions of the characters so he can distort the torment and problems that the lovers undergo. He explores various relations in which the lovers choose each other and love in favorite to money and societal status. He uses his skill in figurative language to examine the theme of the unpredictable and irrational wildlife of love. In the beginning, Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, …show more content…

His imaginative world brings these Greek mythology characters to influence a theme of illusion, confusion, escape, and lust. The soon to be a marry couple ask for entertaining distractions for themselves until their wedding. He then introduces innovative small plays into the plot. He brings new characters in these plays within play. “Marry, our play is, The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby” (Shakespeare). Shakespeare presents the framework for the multi-faceted love relationships which take place in the play. These simple, innocent instructions for fun and acting set the stage for Shakespeare to intricately weave the young lovers, the fairies, and the rustics into the …show more content…

He is famous for his alluring displays of verse, or poetry. Shakespeare’s expertise lies in his cleverness in the handling of the complexities and intricacies of literature. Furthermore, Shakespeare uses violence as a force which becomes infectious to many characters in the play. It too influences the plot and the relationships between the couples. It gives the play a melody of violence and malice. For example, “And even for that do I love you the more. I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, Unworthy as I am, to follow you. What worse place can I beg in your love, -- And yet a place of high respect with me, -- Than to be used as you use your dog” (Shakespeare)? It opens the creation of violence in the story. The common issue is what one is willing to do for love and sacrifice. Nevertheless, it extends to the extremes the one would do to acquire that same

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