It was all just a dream or was it

A detailed Summary of It was all just a dream or was it

Sometimes in our lives reality can seem like a dream come true, in "A Midsummer Night's

Dream," by William Shakespeare, to the characters, their dreams are reality. Shakespeare

focuses on comic love scenes to portray dream within reality and reality within dreams.

This play takes you to a fantasy world where fairies live and pixie dust is real and where

anything is possible. In this world, dreams become reality and reality is alluded as a

The first act gives us a look at our first conflict. Hermia is betrothed to Demetrius

by her father Egeus. Hermia is in love with Lysander because, as her father describes it,

Lysander has "by moonlight.... interchanged love tokens with my child." Egeus is angry

that his daughter would go against his wishes so he presents his case to the king of

Athens, Theseus. According to the law of Athens, death should be the sentence if you go

against your father's wishes. "By the next new moon," she must make her decision, death

or a life with Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia, of course upset by this news, plan to leave

Athens and marry in another land, "I have a widow aunt.... from Athens is her house

remote seven leagues; there, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee, and to that

So he lies down to sleep. Oberon (King of the fairies) makes Demetrius sleepy so he will

stol'n unto this wood;" Helena is following him and dotting on him. She is in dreamland

Athenian law cannot pursue us." They plan to meet the next night in the woods.

Helena not Hermia, Demetrius and Lysander start a physical battle which escalates the

looking for Hermia. He is looking for them because "thou (Helena) toldst me they were

to just the opposite of what he was feeling before. Now he is in fact in love with Helena.

climax. Everyone is in a rage and a major crisis is at hand. Oberon and Puck realize the

Approximate Word count = 1647
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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