Discuss the Title "Midsummer's Night Dream"
MEG 2 Assignments
Ans. 2 Shakespeare's “Midsummer's Night Dream” is interwoven with supernatural elements such as fairies, elves, unrealistic dreams that have been used as a tool to create confusion and therefore comedy within a dream about romance. Like the witches in Macbeth, the fairies in “A Midsummer's Night's Dream” are very much a part of life and interact with men and this can be clearly seen when Oberon accuses Titania of having an affair with the mortal Thesus.
Dreams within a dream are created within the mid-summer's night dream. Hermia's unrealistic dream about the serpent eating her heart out shows her in a state of insecurity that Lysander has left her in. She then feels she was dreaming a dream thus creating a confusion in her. Perhaps Shakespeare was exaggerating and mocking our own romantic dreams which are most often surreal.
Puck, a fairy, Oberon's court jester has supernatural powers that he uses throughout the play. He can fly the skies and transform others into various forms. He is also maliciously mischievous and creates comedy, confusion and grotesque illusions frightening people and feeding them “love juice”. Puck, innocently applies love juice to the wrong people such as Titania and on waking up she falls in love with Bottom, an ass, thereby creating a comedic surreal confusion.
Ans. 3 Hamlet's conscience wavers between his belief, that the ghost was his father's and his perception of the ghost. The ghost reveals to Hamlet that Claudius is his murderer and asks Hamlet to avenge "This foul and most unnatural murder." Hamlet is hesitant to execute this revenge. Not only is his conscience weighty, but also he is unsure of the ghost's true intent. He is unsure if the ghost is an “evil” and if it has taken the shape of his father. He suspects that the ghost is trying to take his soul by making him murder his father. Hamlet wants to "catch the conscience of the king" so he plans to perform a similar plot on stage, that of
Ans. 2 Shakespeare's “Midsummer's Night Dream” is interwoven with supernatural elements such as fairies, elves, unrealistic dreams that have been used as a tool to create confusion and therefore comedy within a dream about romance. Like the witches in Macbeth, the fairies in “A Midsummer's Night's Dream” are very much a part of life and interact with men and this can be clearly seen when Oberon accuses Titania of having an affair with the mortal Thesus.
Dreams within a dream are created within the mid-summer's night dream. Hermia's unrealistic dream about the serpent eating her heart out shows her in a state of insecurity that Lysander has left her in. She then feels she was dreaming a dream thus creating a confusion in her. Perhaps Shakespeare was exaggerating and mocking our own romantic dreams which are most often surreal.
Puck, a fairy, Oberon's court jester has supernatural powers that he uses throughout the play. He can fly the skies and transform others into various forms. He is also maliciously mischievous and creates comedy, confusion and grotesque illusions frightening people and feeding them “love juice”. Puck, innocently applies love juice to the wrong people such as Titania and on waking up she falls in love with Bottom, an ass, thereby creating a comedic surreal confusion.
Ans. 3 Hamlet's conscience wavers between his belief, that the ghost was his father's and his perception of the ghost. The ghost reveals to Hamlet that Claudius is his murderer and asks Hamlet to avenge "This foul and most unnatural murder." Hamlet is hesitant to execute this revenge. Not only is his conscience weighty, but also he is unsure of the ghost's true intent. He is unsure if the ghost is an “evil” and if it has taken the shape of his father. He suspects that the ghost is trying to take his soul by making him murder his father. Hamlet wants to "catch the conscience of the king" so he plans to perform a similar plot on stage, that of