A Critical Analysis of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" William Shakespeare, born in 1594, is one of the greatest writers in literature. ... One of which is "A Midsummer Night's Dream." ... The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. ... "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a comedy combining elements of love, fairies, magic, and dreams. ... (Scott 382-385) Mark van Doren explains the language and poetry in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as an immense expanse of Shakespeare's extraordinary poetic imagination. ...

• Word Count: 2837
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Loves Misfortunes A Midsummer Night's Dream, is a romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare. It deals with the feelings of love and marriage as well as the laws and social order of the time. The story contains fairies and other mystical creatures who take it upon themselves to guide the mort...

• Word Count: 740
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Critique of A Midsummer Night's Dream I went to see Nevada Ballet Theatre's rendition of A Midsummer Night's Dream on Friday October 4, 2002 at UNLV's Judy Bayley Theatre. ... A Midsummer Night's Dream focuses around the tangled web of four lovers who are the subjects of Duke Theseus' court, and who get accidentally mixed up in the magical world of elves and fairies. ... Overall I really enjoyed watching A Midsummer Night's Dream. ...

• Word Count: 1146
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Two themes present in many of Shakespeare's plays, the transition of reality into only a dream and the absurd nature of love form a large part of the dramatic content of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In Act Four Oberon tells Titania that Bottom will "think no more of the night's accidents / But as the fierce vexation of a dream" (IV.i.65-66). ... Dislocations of the senses occur several times in A Midsummer Night's Dream, their chief effect being to dislodge the eye from its primacy, but this is the most extended instance. ... Perhaps the most famous line from A Midsummer N...

• Word Count: 922
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the comic play of A Midsummer Night's Dream, there were many elements of fantasy and confusion. ... Another pattern that reoccurs throughout the whole play is the time of day or night. Most of the play is at night. ... The transformations a heart and any change happens at night. The night fabricates the world of illusion within the walls of the forest. ...

• Word Count: 803
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

3 Major Themes in A Midsummer Night's Dream In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare heavily uses contrasting to tell this story, by using 3 groups of extremely different characters. ... As things go on during the night, Puck makes an attempt to fix his mistake- only to make Demetrius also fall in love with Helena. ... The 3 main themes portrayed in this story were blind love, dreams, and magic. ... Dreams are shown again and again throughout the play, they are linked to the bizarre magical happenings in the forest. ...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Symbolism and Imagery in A Midsummer Night's Dream In A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare brilliantly uses the night as a motif which plays a valuable role in the play. ... The dream and introspective vision are made possible by night and darkness; the idea of a dream plays with the same transformation of vision: a dream is only visible when the eyes are closed, when vision is inward-looking. ... In daylight, the four lovers go on to recount their dreams together, struggling to make sense of the night through the framework of the dream. "And by the way let us recount ou...

• Word Count: 1268
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Similarity "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet" both show how powerful love can be. ... "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a play about magic, transformations, and how love fits into this type of world. ... It feels as if Shakespeare had this dream, or fantasy, of his own that he intertwined into his style and method of writing. ...

• Word Count: 570
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Be it a father's affection for his daughter, one's love for their soul mate, or the obsession for a child, love can be found as the source of problems throughout William Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Nights Dream. ... In A Midsummer Night's Dream there are three basic and very separate classes. ... These mystical creatures living in the forest are largely responsible for making A Midsummer Night's Dream as humorous as it is. ... When Titania wakes up from the spell she thinks she's merely had a dream: "My Oberon! ... And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but...

• Word Count: 1378
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Melissa Sweeney English 3150-Section 7 May 13, 2002 Foolish Lovers Puck a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream says, "Lord what fools these mortals be" (3.2.115). ... What have you come by night and stolen my love's heart from him?" ... who more engilds the night" (3.2.186-187). ... The four young lovers of A Midsummer Night's Dream act in ways that are not logical. ... A Midsummer Night's Dream. ...

• Word Count: 958
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the play A Midsummer Night's Dream love was a main concept. However, in order for the emotions of love to take their place, there is a need of power to generate it. Only through power is love really made evident. The power of authority, the power to transform perceptions and the power of infat...

• Word Count: 1738
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"The course of Love did never run smooth" I do believe that this statement by William Shakespeare is utterly true. After reading the play, it really does widen my view about the difficulties faced by each lover. From there we can detect different types of couples [warrior couple, immortal cou...

• Word Count: 1095
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School