William Shakespeare's Creation of the Magical World of the Fairies in Midsummer Nights Dream

William Shakespeare's Creation of the Magical World of the Fairies in Midsummer Nights Dream

I feel that the fairies are the very heart of a Midsummer Nights

Dream. It is because of fairy magic that we can call some of the

action a dream. Nearly everything revolves around them such as nature,

humans, emotions, settings, life, death and the weather. Most of the

things that happen in the play have some relation to the fairies. All

the magic and fantasy that takes place mostly in the middle section of

the play comes from deep in the forest, which is the fairies home.

Just imagine if fairies really did have magical powers, everyone would

love to have them, you could do whatever you wanted with them for

example cause mischief, which is what a lot of the play is about. The

fairies are responsible for all of the mischief and fun that takes

place. The language they speak is very poetical; and harmonious, some

of the best poetry spoken in the play is spoken by the fairies.

The fairies are a big part of the natural world, especially the

forest. This is where they live. The fairies do the work of the

forest. This is a quote from act 2 scene 1 the conversation between

fairy and puck:

"……The cowslips tall her pensioners be,

……I must go seek dewdrops here

…… And hang a pearl in every cowslips ear"

The fairies seem to have a power over nature. There is another example

of this in the quarrel between Titania the Queen of the fairies and

Oberon the King of the fairies.

The quotation goes:

Titania:

"But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport

Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain"

And also she ...

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... has supernatural powers, but also powers over the

fairies. In act 3 scene 1 she promises Bottom that if he stayed with

her she would give her fairies to him to look after him.

" I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee,

And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep

And sing, while thou on pressed flowers doth sleep".

At the end of the play the fairies use their powers to bless the

mortals. I think Shakespeare is trying to show a good side to the

fairies not just their mischievous side. This is really used to

benefit the audience, a feel good factor about the fairies attitudes.

I really enjoyed reading Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream,

because it opened up a new world for me of magic. You can get trapped

into the play like magic. You almost feel as if the fairies are real

but we just don't know it.