Essays on A Midsummer Night's Dream

A midsummer Night’s dream is based on the premise that the course within which romantic love runs is not meant to be smooth. There are meant to be hurdles and challenges but if there is real love then it will prevail in the end. Shakespeare…

 Imagine if someone put a spell on you and then you transformed into a donkey. How would you feel? Midsummer Night’s Dreams is a comedy play written by Shakespeare. Magic makes the whole play a comedy because it is used to impact the life of…

The standards of love in society are illustrated within literature in the way love is expected from and expressed to others, setting itself as a reflection of society. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare draws on those expectations and often exaggerated or emphasized illustrations of…

Misogyny is a prominent element of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This can be defined as the “dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women,” (Oxford Dictionary). Set in a patriarchal society, the women in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are obligated to be subservient to…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, composed by William Shakespeare, consists of multiple love stories tied together to create an overarching theme revolving around the idea that love has the ability to take multiple forms. Though the play as a whole may concentrate more on love, ideas…

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Write-Up “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, a play set in Athens and written by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, is one of his more well-known comedies. The play starts out with Theseus, the Duke of Athens, settling a quarrel between a father…

The word wood in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of possibility. In Shakespeare’s time, upward mobility was near impossible lest one came upon a large sum of money and could buy oneself (or one’s father) into the gentry. The wood, or forest, represented an…

Imagery is one of the many literary devices that is used all throughout literature, it consists of detailed descriptive languages that function as a way to guide and help the reader create a different world through piece of literature, in order for the reader to…

As it is a known fact that gender bias and patriarchy are the practices and the ideologies that prevalent in today’s world as well. Maybe they are not practiced the way they were practiced back in the day, but still the harsh reality is that…

‘I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon and make him smile’ (Robin. 2.1. 43-47). Puck, a playful and mischievous fairy is known to be Oberon’s jester who enjoys playing pranks on people. Puck is also known for his fun-loving humor,…

Believed to be one of William Shakespeare’s most impressive comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a visionary and comical tale; nevertheless, its poetic lines convey and incorporate a message of love, reality, and magic. However, the play uses characters to portray helpful life lessons, potentially…

Every character in Shakespeare’s plays has distinct roles, some more clear than others through deep analysis we can see the literal and figurative meaning behind the characters. In Act Two Scene one of Midsummer Night’s dream as playing thet12efb nm fairy, I acknowledge fairies are…

Oberon in Midsummer Night’s Dream  is the master of Puck, King of the Fairies, and husband of Titania.There are different ways to see Oberon’s character at times because he can be a compassionate person or he can be cruel. He genuinely feels sorry for Helena…

Act 1, Scene 1, of A Midsummer’s Night Dream, by William Shakespeare, concludes with Helena thinking about love. From lines 226 to 244, Helena describes the struggles of love and how they relate to her specific situation. She rants about it as she tries to…

In this day and age, we rarely see the idea of patriarchy in the society, or it is just at the point where it is not as bad as the old times anymore that we do not really notice it. It is a social system…