A Midsummer Night's Dream Research Paper

CRITICAL/ANALYTICAL RESPONSE

“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” James M. Barrie. Dreams, it can be defined as fantasies, desires or goals, it is hope, aspiration and ambition but most importantly, it is life. Dreams exist in every human being, from little children to the elders, they all have dreams. One can has as many dreams as he wants, from small to big but to accomplish them is not an easy task. To accomplish a dream, in requires hard work, ambitions and sacrifices, one need to surmount every kind of obstacles to achieve his dreams even to go against conformity. In the play “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” by William Shakespeare, Hermia decided not
After the war with the Norwegians and the traitor Macdonwald, on the way back to Forres, the King’s castle, Macbeth heard the witches’ prophecies of him being King of Scotland, after that he began to have ambitions and dreams for the future but was disheartened when the King announced that his eldest son Malcolm to be heir to the throne. After telling his wife about the witches’ prophecies and the disappointment at King’s announcement, Lady Macbeth came up with a plan to kill King Duncan immediately during their party that night. At first, during the party, Macbeth decided not to proceed with the plans since it went against his nature as loyalty and amicable and also against the conformity of the laws, but because of his ambitions and dreams were already too high, he followed his wife’s corrupted plan to commit regicide against the King during his sleep. Macbeth’s action showed that because of his dreams and desires to be King; he was willingly to commit any deeds to achieve it even though it meant to kill the King and steal the throne for himself and because of that dream, he had to betray his loyalty and humanity to be King. Not all dreams are good dreams; sometimes it is a nightmare that
During his reign, Macbeth obsession to the throne had made him an unjust King, therefore Malcolm and Macduff fled to England to request for an army to over throw Macbeth. After the English King had granted Malcolm and Macduff the English army, with Malcolm was the commander the English and Scottish armies joined forces in Birnam wood around Dusinane castle where Macbeth was staying. In Macbeth’s castle, everyone including servants, doctors and even soldiers had fled for their lives except Macbeth since he desired to be King forever and foolishly believed in the witches’ prophecies the he could not be killed by any man of woman born. After the huge army broke through Dusinane castle, Macbeth in order to protect his throne had killed numerous of soldiers but in the end, he was killed by Macduff. Because of Macbeth dreams and ambitions of being King of Scotland, he chose not to conform to the laws and rules, therefore he became an unjust King who killed his best friend and his comrade’s family and at the end he had to pray the price for dreaming too