Week THreE - MSND
“The course of true love never did run smooth,” explains Lysander, articulating one of A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s most important themes-that of the difficulty of love.
Most of the conflicts in the play surround love, but it is not a love story per se, it has elements of love within it but this is for the audience’s amusement. Helena constantly chasing Demetrius and Lysander gentle words to Hermia. It is a play that the audience knows shall end well because of the tone throughout it. The troubled tangle begins when two men love the same woman and one of the women, Helena , who loves Demetrius wants nothing to do with her. With the help of some medaling nymphs and fairies this lover’s tangle is resolved.
Titania and Oberon also have their issues. The comedy at Titania’s expense when she falls passionately in love with the ass-headed Bottom. The law of nature, how can someone so beautiful and refined find pleasure in the grotesque Bottom. Oberon knows he is doing an injustice and set things right again and those issues are also resolved in the end.
The fairies add that magical enchantment to the play and maybe Shakespeare put them in to offer the audience something magical where they could be transported to another world and leave their own worries behind for an hour. They held the key; well Puk did, to the supernatural power of love (symbolized by the love potion) and to create a surreal world. Even though this love potion is misused and chaos erupts magic is used to restore the status quo to the four youths.
Dreams, well this must be important considering it’s in the title. The dreams that occur in the play are linked to the bizarre, magical mishaps in the forest. Hippolyta’s first words in the play relate to dreams, “Four days will quickly steep themselves in night, / Four nights will quickly dream away the time”, and other characters mention dreams throughout. The theme of dreaming occurs mainly when characters attempt to explain bizarre events in which they are involved.
Dreams seem to be timeless, and things that are normally impossible happen and they happen to you. All this adds to the colour, mischief, magic and light heartedness of the play. A play to be enjoyed by all. Shakespeare's beautiful language, the prose and poetry he uses throughout gives the plays it's softness and mystical magical qualities. That of deja vu and the strange things that love can do to you and what it can make an individual do. Love is beautiful and to be enjoyed by all in all it's different shapes and form. Shakespeare a romantic at heart with such intense words.
This is Puk By Joshua Reynolds.
Commented on http://gengen89.livejournal.com
Most of the conflicts in the play surround love, but it is not a love story per se, it has elements of love within it but this is for the audience’s amusement. Helena constantly chasing Demetrius and Lysander gentle words to Hermia. It is a play that the audience knows shall end well because of the tone throughout it. The troubled tangle begins when two men love the same woman and one of the women, Helena , who loves Demetrius wants nothing to do with her. With the help of some medaling nymphs and fairies this lover’s tangle is resolved.
Titania and Oberon also have their issues. The comedy at Titania’s expense when she falls passionately in love with the ass-headed Bottom. The law of nature, how can someone so beautiful and refined find pleasure in the grotesque Bottom. Oberon knows he is doing an injustice and set things right again and those issues are also resolved in the end.
The fairies add that magical enchantment to the play and maybe Shakespeare put them in to offer the audience something magical where they could be transported to another world and leave their own worries behind for an hour. They held the key; well Puk did, to the supernatural power of love (symbolized by the love potion) and to create a surreal world. Even though this love potion is misused and chaos erupts magic is used to restore the status quo to the four youths.
Dreams, well this must be important considering it’s in the title. The dreams that occur in the play are linked to the bizarre, magical mishaps in the forest. Hippolyta’s first words in the play relate to dreams, “Four days will quickly steep themselves in night, / Four nights will quickly dream away the time”, and other characters mention dreams throughout. The theme of dreaming occurs mainly when characters attempt to explain bizarre events in which they are involved.
Dreams seem to be timeless, and things that are normally impossible happen and they happen to you. All this adds to the colour, mischief, magic and light heartedness of the play. A play to be enjoyed by all. Shakespeare's beautiful language, the prose and poetry he uses throughout gives the plays it's softness and mystical magical qualities. That of deja vu and the strange things that love can do to you and what it can make an individual do. Love is beautiful and to be enjoyed by all in all it's different shapes and form. Shakespeare a romantic at heart with such intense words.
This is Puk By Joshua Reynolds.
Commented on http://gengen89.livejournal.com