Father Daughter Relationships In A Midsummer Night's Dream And The Merchant Of Venice

Shakespeare uses the concept of family as a literary aspect in every play he has wrote, whether it be a relationship between parents and their children, spouses, siblings, or close friendship. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare highlights the relationship between a father and his daughter. Both of these plays show examples of how common father and daughter relationships are. Also, it is not unusual for a comedy to have a father demanding that his daughter marry a certain person. The law of the father plays an important role in the stories of both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice.
In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we are introduced in the beginning to a very stock character of an