From the very first scene and conversation in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the notion of dreams foreshadows the major underlying concept of the play, the suggestion that it is all merely a dream. ... Hippolyta encourages them by saying, "Four nights will quickly dream away the time." There's that word "dream." ... And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream." Again, Puck reinforces the dream's role as a "medicine" by asking the possibly offended audience to pretend that they had simply fallen asleep and "visions did appear" in their dreams. ...

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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. ... It is also the way that Bottom deals with his nightmare of an imaginary dream that is important and interesting. ... Perhaps the most famous line from A Midsummer Nights Dream is when Puck remarks, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" ... Towards the end of the passage, Demetrius says "And by the way let us recount our dreams." (IV.i.195) It is interesting that like Bottom, the lovers h...

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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. ...

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In the comic play of A Midsummer Night's Dream, there were many elements of fantasy and confusion. The play was creatively written, and the spells as well as the fairies made it interesting at all times. In Shakespeare's plays he develops many patterns. One of his patterns was the different rela...

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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. ... Neither character is mixed in with the dream aspect of the play; in fact, Theseus represents order. ... 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 a dream, Gentles, do not reprehen...

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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...

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• Grade Level: High School