“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own” is a quote inspired by H Jackson Brown Jr. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a romantic fantasy written by the great William Shakespeare. This story focuses on two young men, Lysander and Demetrius, as they both fall in love with Hermia while lonely Helena hopes to pursue Demetrius. However, a mishap in the woods causes an error and mixes up the love rectangle. On the other hand, Mamma Mia! is a romantic comedy directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Mamma Mia! is about a girl named Sophia who hopes to find her biological father by inviting three possible fathers to her wedding. These two brilliant comedies are shown to exhibit characteristics that may often be found within a fairy tale. These include but are not …show more content…
limited to: an explicit problem, a marriage, and the theme of finding love. Typically, a fairy tale is based on the protagonist as he/she is trying to resolve an issue.
The problem in A Midsummer’s Night Dream is aimed towards Robin Goodfellow’s mistake in the forest involving a love rectangle. This love rectangle lies between Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena. An enchantment leaves them to pursue different partners and blinded by magic. Eventually, all is returned into good order as the spell is reversed. Similarly, the problem in Mamma Mia! is based on Sophie’s wishes to reunite with her father. This proves to be quite difficult because of Donna’s three relationships around the time of her pregnancy. In the end, they all agree to be one third of Sophie’s father and celebrate together. Both of the stories effectively stated a problem as the main characters managed to solve it. In another example, fairy tales are known to finish with a happy ending as the problem is resolved. In A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Lysander and Hermia end up getting married and so did Demetrius and Helena. At the wedding, Similarly, Mamma Mia! ended with Donna and Sam getting married as Sophie and Sky’s wedding was postponed as they wanted to travel the world. Both works concluded with a happy ending which is a common characteristic of a fairy
tale. Finally, both of these works are revolving around the theme of finding love. A dominant theme in William Shakespeare’s comedies convey the theme of love. Lysander and Hermia were in love since the beginning and ended up getting married. Helena was very affectionate with Demetrius and continued to love him when he decided to pursue Hermia. This shows that love truly conquers all, including any obstacle that may arise. This theme was also evident in Mamma Mia! within Sophie’s plotline. Sophie was hoping to find her father so that her parents may be reunited. She realized that bringing happiness to her mother will bring her happiness as well. Later on, Sophie realized that love is discovering yourself through the happiness of others. In the end, she had an amazing fiancée, three loving fathers, a caring mother, and a flourishing future ahead of her. A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mamma Mia! express and include many aspects of a fairy tale with a problem, marriage, and theme of love being just a couple of them. They have very entertaining storylines which never fail to amuse.
When love is in attendance it brings care, faith, affection and intimacy. This is proved true in the spectacular play A Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare. This play displays the facts about lust, hatred, jealousy and their roles in something powerfully desirable. It is entitled love. Love is present everywhere, in every form, in every condition and even when one least expects it.
Comparing Two Film Versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Introduction The two films we have been asked to compare are both different versions of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. The first was a big screen movie, by Michael Hoffman and made in 1998. This film was set in the 19th Century in the fictional city of Monte Athena and starred major actors and actresses such as Sophie Marceau, Kelvin Klein, Rupert Everett and Calista Flockhart. The second was a budget film made for channel 4 by Royal Shakespeare Company. Adrian Noble was the producer
Having read the play “A Streetcar named Desire” by Tennessee Williams and watched the film “Blue Jasmine” directed by Woody Allen, I believe that Williams ‘ character Blanche deserves more sympathy than Allen’s character Jasmine. “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Blue Jasmine” similarly tell the story of a socialite who faces an epic downfall in life. Woody Allen’s film manages to parallel Tennessee’s original “A Streetcar Named Desire” whilst adding a modern twist and subtle adaptations. Despite the similar experiences of the two characters, Blanche faces shame, embarrassment, and guilt to a greater extent compared to Jasmine and therefore is more deserving of our sympathy.
The confusion between “wants” and “needs” is greatly displayed in the movie, “Blue Jasmine” and the book, “A Streetcar Named Desire”. Both main characters, Jasmine and Blanche, have lived lives almost the same as the other but if compared, Blanche has lived worse therefore, she deserves my sympathy.
Love is chaotic and free, and because love is so powerful, we often do extreme and erratic things to capture it. The tradition of marriage, or mawage, is so firmly established in history that the gender roles common to marriage are often inescapable, no matter how strong love is, or how powerful a person is. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare uses imagery to portray the theme of gender roles and show how love has the spell-bounding power to either change or reinforce those roles.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is, in a way, Romeo and Juliet turned inside out--a tragedy turned farcical. The tragedy both are based on is the story of "Pyramus and Thisbe." In one, Ovid's story is treated as a melodrama (in Romeo and Juliet) and in another, it is fodder for comedy (in A Midsummer Night's Dream).
Love is a powerful emotion, capable of turning reasonable people into fools. Out of love, ridiculous emotions arise, like jealousy and desperation. Love can shield us from the truth, narrowing a perspective to solely what the lover wants to see. Though beautiful and inspiring when requited, a love unreturned can be devastating and maddening. In his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare comically explores the flaws and suffering of lovers. Four young Athenians: Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, and Helena, are confronted by love’s challenge, one that becomes increasingly difficult with the interference of the fairy world. Through specific word choice and word order, a struggle between lovers is revealed throughout the play. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses descriptive diction to emphasize the impact love has on reality and one’s own rationality, and how society’s desperate pursuit to find love can turn even strong individuals into fools.
Humanity has struggled with the enormity of fate since the beginning of existence. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth demonstrate fate’s wicked nature where its collision with mortals results in absolute tragedy. However, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, fate assumes a lighter identity, a stark contrast to fate’s usually ugly face. This new role also demonstrates a new relationship between man and fate. Shakespeare’s use of dramatic irony illustrates the parallel between the mortal and immortal worlds to present the grave concept of fate in an unthreatening manner, thus enabling man to comprehend the inexplicable.
Othello The movie O, directed by Tim Blake Nelson, is a modernized version of the play Othello written by William Shakespeare. Both the film and the play bear striking similarities, although this adaptation of Otello also includes some different characteristics than the original play text. The similarities and differences are distinguished through the modernized plot, cinematic techniques used to illustrate the play text as a tragedy and successfully retaining the tragic structure of the play Othello. The modernized plot has a few similarities and differences from the original play text. In the play Othello, war scenes are performed off stage and are usually occurring during a storm.
In the common world, the newfound love is believed to change people’s lives by giving them new perspective of the world – often beneficial but also often negative. In one of the most beloved work of Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oberon, the king of the fairies, feel jealous of prideful minded Titania, the queen of the fairies, for which Oberon uses a magic love potion to hoodwink Titania into falling in love with a donkey-headed man. Similarly, in Hitchcock’s movie Vertigo, Scottie’s vertigo results him to be used as a victim for the cunning plan of Elster, Scottie’s old friend, for killing Elster’s wife. Nevertheless, Scottie ends up falling in love with Judy, a woman who disguises herself as Elster’s wife, which prevents Scottie
William Shakespeare has provided some of the most brilliant plays to ever be performed on the stage. He is also the author of numerous sonnets and poems, but he is best known for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. In this essay I would like to discuss the play and movie, "Romeo and Juliet", and also the movie, Shakespeare in Love.
"Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it." (Ray Bradbury) Love has always been a prominent subject in literature due to its relatability. Authors have often used love to convey certain messages, to move their stories along or simply to further captivate the reader's attention. Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Shakespeare take advantage of this by including love into their pieces of writing. Othello and The Great Gatsby both demonstrate similar portrayals of love. The love that is depicted between characters, the author's general message surrounding love and the use of love as a sub-theme all prove that these two publications resemble one another.
Love plays a very significant role in this Shakespearian comedy, as it is the driving force of the play: Hermia and Lysander’s forbidden love and their choice to flee Athens is what sets the plot into motion. Love is also what drives many of the characters, and through readers’ perspectives, their actions may seem strange, even comical to us: from Helena pursuing Demetrius and risking her reputation, to fairy queen Titania falling in love with Bottom. However, all these things are done out of love. In conclusion, A Midsummer Night’s Dream displays the blindness of love and how it greatly contradicts with reason.
...n every fairy tales, the tragedy identifies their own unique character, and symbolizes the plot to overcome it. After overcoming the hard times, during the plot is solved, and then describes the happy ever after. In The Shining the happy ever after was when Wendy and Danny were able get into the snow car and flee together, while Jack was freezing and dying. Sometimes the happy ever after do not happen with a kiss. In Hazel and Gretel the characters were able to trick the witch and scape. So, the fairy tales the evil never dies, but is destroyed.
A love story is a genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love. Although, the basis of Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent are love stories, there are more important themes to these stories than the romance portrayed in these fairytales, which Disney touches on, but Robert Stromberg brings more emphasis to; evil from different perspectives, the act of rape, and the theory that love conquers all.