A midsummer night's dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is the best of Shakespeare's early comedies. It is an unrealistic fantasy concerning lovers, fairies and royalty. Its action centers around four lovers' plights brought about by the fantasy world in which they enter. All through this play, there is a supernatural force that changes the lives of all that come in its path. However, the audience naturally questions whether this supernatural force is real, or is it merely just a dream. Regardless of whether it is an illusion or not, can be debated endlessly depending on what viewpoint one chooses to support. The bottom line is that supernatural illusions are at the heart of this Shakespearean play A Midsummer Night's Dream. These illusions are represented to the audience by the means of fairies who are able to intervene with whom ever they please. The fairy world created by Shakespeare for this play, whether real or fantasy, is full of chaos, hardships and confusion that instantaneously effects the inhabitants of the real world. Throughout the play, there are many facts to support the argument that the fantasy world of the fairies is indeed contaminated with faults. There are three main groups of people that provide evidence
Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, From our debate, from our dissension; Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, The King and Queen of the fairies Oberon and Titania, are perhaps the best example to use, when attempting to demonstrate the disorder that occurs throughout the fairy world. They are quarreling over a young Indian boy that Oberon wants and the queen refuses to give him up. There is immediate tension as soon as these characters are introduced. Oberon address Titania as "proud Titania" and calls their meeting unfortunate and she replies by calling him "jealous Oberon" and starts to leave, saying that she has forsworn his bed and company. This argument between Oberon and Titania proves that the world they live in, has problems of it's own. This becomes even clearer when the royal Titania express her feeling by saying, Lysander's dramatic change in devotion is unmistakably due to the potion that Puck was ordered to put in Demetrius' eyes. Although Puck's intentions are good this time, he still nevertheless manages to deprave Hermia from Lysander's true love, thus proving once again that their fairy world can be as corrupt or even more corrupt than the factual world the four lovers occupy. What, can you do me greater harm than hate?
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Approximate Word count = 2418
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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