Symbolism in Midsummer Night's Dream

IntroductionShakespeare

William Shakespeare is regarded as one of the greatest writers of English Language and the world's most eminent dramatist often referred as England's National poet. His works include nearly 38 plays, all of which were classic and acquired a lot of fame. His plays are not only stage performed but also filmed more than those of any other play writer. All Shakespeare's plays are translated into nearly every major language of the world (www.william-shakespeare.info). About the Play

Shakespeare's one of the most famous plays A Midsummer Night's Dream is credence to be written in the early era of Shakespeare's career, which is said to be somewhere between 1594 to 1595. The novel A Midsummer Night's Dream is a tale of simplicity. The author Shakespeare has focused more on emotions and idea in the novel. The novel is actually based on a complex imaginative world that contains modes of dreaming and waking. The characters in the waking mode have a firm belief that they live on the shore which is the only irreversible reality. Here, the controller of the waking mode is Theseus (www.sirbacon.org). Whereas the practical, rational, critical and analytical waking mode is compensated in Dream, through a dreaming mode which is actually an imperceptible and irrational forces that are worked by the fairies. The rational and irrational things go side by side, showing that one is actually incomplete without the other thing. The play's strength is its ironic field of different meaning that is extracted out of mystery as well as history, reality with dream, life and art, nature and culture, masculine and feminine, imbecility and wisdom. It is through this way that the play sensationalizes the combination of opposites at diverse levels. Despite that the play seemed to be whimsical as well as humorous ending on a happy note, still many critics argue about the play and its symbols. The critical comment placed on A Midsummer Night's Dream has many forms including the play as a whole along with its characters and its symbols (www.skyminds.net).Thesis

The Symbolic Roles and Criticism in the play A Midsummer Night's DreamDiscussionSymbolism in Literature

Symbolism enables to understand, enhance and deepen the meaning of the work that is being read. Symbolism refers to any single thing or character within the play or story that has a different meaning or actually is positioned for something else. At times, authors embed images, characters or things that enable in making the more deeper, meaningful, richer and vibrant. Shakespeare has used a lot of symbols in his play (vickie-britton.suite101.com).A Midsummer Night

William Shakespeare has symbolized many characters, events, themes and even nature in the play A Midsummer's Night's Dream. The main title of the play is even symbolized by the author. The title here means that there is something suspicious going on revealing the upcoming essence of the play. Here, the author of the play tries to focus and symbolize making the readers aware of the magical night that takes place in the mid of summer. Symbolically it also focuses narrating the effect of the dream ...