Central Conflict In The Dream In Midsummer Night's Dream

Midwinter 's Night Dream

William Shakespeare has become one of the most famous and influential writers in English literature and his work has been reenacted and studied all over the world for several centuries. However, we often do not get the chance to admire all of his other plays as the school curriculum in high school only covers his four most famous tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. Now, as a college student, I am able to appreciate his work more as I have recently seen Shakespeare Midwinter Night’s Dream which is based on Shakespeare’s real play Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, a comedy that portrays the events that surround the marriage of a Duke, the love of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors who must

For example, the central conflict and the main action of the play happen right in the first three scenes of act one, when Hermia’s dad Egeus goes to complain to Theseus that his daughter does not want to obey him to marry Demetrius a young man who has his consent to marry his daughter. Yet, Hermia is not in love with Demetrius, she is in love with Lysander, a young romantic and funny nobleman who is also in love with Hermia. On the other hand, Helena who is Hermia’s friend is deeply in love with Demetrius, but he does not love her as he is in love with Hermia. As a result of this conflict, Hermia and Lysander decide to run off to the woods to escape from their hierarchical society, where Demetrius and Helena later join them. Once in the woods, the story complicates things for the four lovers as Oberon, the winter fairy, tries to make Demetrius fall in love with Helena. But, this does not go according to his plan, as his servant Puck mistakenly puts the love potion on Lysander while he is asleep. This mistake causes Lysander to fall in love with Helena when he wakes up. In the effort to fix his servant’s mistake, Oberon enchants Demetrius with the love potion, and he too falls in love with Helena, when he wakes up. In the end, Oberon is able to lift off the enchantment of Lysander

As we learned in class, the work of stage designers and technicians is very important because they are the ones who set the style and the tone of the whole play as well as the mood of the atmosphere of the play itself. However, their work differs in that a stage designer tries to give the audience a sense of the time and place for the play, while a stage technician makes sure that everything that is going on in the theater stage is in order and in sync, including the lighting, scenery, and props. For instance, in this play, the scenery offered a very natural visual look of what a person can imagine a winter forest may look like. Also, the costumes for this play were within the winter theme as the main characters wore modern winter attire like boots, scarfs, and mittens. However, the winter fairies had a very angelic look and whenever they came to stage their wings would move in a way that made them look like they were actually flying. On the other hand, the lighting of the stage was also helpful because I was able to focus my attention on a certain actor or action that was being done on stage. Finally, the sound was very important in this play, especially in the scene where Oberon and his servant Puck apply the love potion to Demetrius, Lysander and the queen of the fairies while they are sleeping in their forest, because it makes the flower seem as