A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 Scene 1
Intro:
Shakespeare has always come across as a legend in the writing world. In the following series of blogs I will be writing about one of Shakespeare’s most famous and well known plays; A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It includes love, betrayal and of course magic. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set in a forest where four troubled teens find themselves mixed among the deception of the fairies. In Shakespeare’s plays he always seems to produce a few monologues or soliloquies. During the following blogs I will be analysing a monologue spoken by the power hungry fairy king, Oberon. At this moment of the play in Act 2 Scene 1 the chaos begins. Through these blogs I will analyse Oberon’s monologue and prove it’s importance to the whole play. (Warning: includes spoilers).
Background:
One of the key monologues during A Midsummer Night’s Dream is when the king of the fairies speaks to his trusted servant and troublemaker Robin Goodfellow aka Puck. He explains to Robin Goodfellow that a flower with all the love of one of cupid’s arrows can make any woman or man fall in love with the first creature it sees when it awakes. …show more content…
Egeus comes to Theseus to request his daughter Hermia be forced to marry Demetrius (a noble man). Demetrius is willing unlike Egeus’s daughter Hermia. Hermia doesn’t want to marry Demetrius because she loves Lysander. Lysander is an equal to Demetrius and loves Hermia. Theseus gives Hermia options; marry Demetrius, become a nun or die. Helena, Hermia’s best friend is in love with Demetrius but he loves Helena. Lysander and Hermia decide to run away to his aunt’s house to elope. They tell this to Helena, and Helena decides to tell Demetrius to win his favour. We find out more about the twisted love square as the four young adults travel through the
Shakespeare has always come across as a legend in the writing world. In the following series of blogs I will be writing about one of Shakespeare’s most famous and well known plays; A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It includes love, betrayal and of course magic. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set in a forest where four troubled teens find themselves mixed among the deception of the fairies. In Shakespeare’s plays he always seems to produce a few monologues or soliloquies. During the following blogs I will be analysing a monologue spoken by the power hungry fairy king, Oberon. At this moment of the play in Act 2 Scene 1 the chaos begins. Through these blogs I will analyse Oberon’s monologue and prove it’s importance to the whole play. (Warning: includes spoilers).
Background:
One of the key monologues during A Midsummer Night’s Dream is when the king of the fairies speaks to his trusted servant and troublemaker Robin Goodfellow aka Puck. He explains to Robin Goodfellow that a flower with all the love of one of cupid’s arrows can make any woman or man fall in love with the first creature it sees when it awakes. …show more content…
Egeus comes to Theseus to request his daughter Hermia be forced to marry Demetrius (a noble man). Demetrius is willing unlike Egeus’s daughter Hermia. Hermia doesn’t want to marry Demetrius because she loves Lysander. Lysander is an equal to Demetrius and loves Hermia. Theseus gives Hermia options; marry Demetrius, become a nun or die. Helena, Hermia’s best friend is in love with Demetrius but he loves Helena. Lysander and Hermia decide to run away to his aunt’s house to elope. They tell this to Helena, and Helena decides to tell Demetrius to win his favour. We find out more about the twisted love square as the four young adults travel through the