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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Introduction

A Midsummer Night's Dream was the creation of great Shakespeare by the end of 16th century. This play depicts how young lovers fall in and out of love in a short period of time. Shakespeare has induced a magical potion in his play to make it more enchanting for the viewers. The midsummer night's dream is one of the most well-known plays. Shakespeare is considered as the greatest writer of the English Literature.

Discussion

The play represents four interconnected plots. In the first plot, Theseus the Duke of Athens and Hippolyta the Queen of Amazons were going to be connected in wedlock, and for that purpose, great celebrations were planned in the woodland forest. On the second plot, Egeus took her disobedient daughter named Hermia to the Duke as Egeus wanted her to marry a man of his choice who was Demetrius but Hermia did not want to marry him because she was in love with Lysander. Duke commands her to marry Demetrius or otherwise she has to face the penalties in terms of death or entering in a convent according to the Athenian Law. Both the Cupids Hermia and Lysander decided to elope and confide at their friend Helena who was secretly in love with Demetrius. She tells him about the Hermia's plan, and all four of them decided to set out in the forest.

“Love looks, not with the eyes, but with the mind;

And therefore, is wing'd Cupid painted blind:

Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;

Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:

And therefore, is Love said to be a child,

Because in choice he is so oft beguiled”.

In the third plot, Peter Quince and his group were planning to perform a play in the wedding of Duke. So they decided to practice the play The Tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe in the same forest. In the last plot, in the forest, the Oberon and Titania who were the fairy King and Queen were arguing each other. Titania was refusing to give her page-boy to Oberon. On her refusal Oberon orders his servant to get the magic plant called love-in-idleness in order to cast a spell on the rebellious Queen. The juice of the plant has magic as when it squeezes on the eye when asleep, makes them fall in love with the first living thing seen upon awakening. King puts the juice on Queen in order to punish her because he knew that when she would wake up she would first interact with the animal as they were in the forest.

“And here I take this charm from off her sight, I will make her give up her page to me” (said by Oberon)

The tradesmen were rehearsing the play in the forest and Puck, the Kings servant magically transforms Bottom's head in to the donkey's head. The other members of the group got terrified and flee from the forest. When Titania got up, the first creature she saw was Bottom and therefore, ...