The Existence Of God In A Midsummer Night's Dream
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare questions the reality of the audience through pagan elements and subjectivity. He also disobeys the Great Chain of Being by subtly questioning God. When Shakespeare was writing A Midsummer Night's Dream, coarse ideas weren't allowed. He uses the fairies and as a way to question God. Using the fairies' magic powers, he makes the lovers fall for one another randomly. Shakespeare is establishing that love is random because he isn't including what most people thought was real; God. Henceforth, he is disrupting the Great Chain of Being by questioning the existence of God. The subjectivity in the play has the power to disrupt the Great Chain of Being and ultimately question the authority of the God
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At the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream, he tries to make up to the audience after disrupting the Great Chain of Being. He is questioning their perception of life throughout the line. At the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck tries to make up to the audience after disrupting the Great Chain of Being. He is questioning their perception of life throughout the line. Puck states: "if we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended" (5.1.440-44). Throughout the play, Shakespeare has been disrupting the Great Chain of Being through women, fairies, and many other things. In the time when he was writing the play, such disruption would not have been tolerated. He uses Puck to tell the audience to disregard anything that has offended them for his safety. Similarly, Puck is also questioning the existence of God in his line by saying that it is all a dream. Back in Shakespeare's time, they thought dreams were messages from God. Freud had not yet explained what they are to the common people, so they had every reason to believe this theory. Nowadays, most people think of dreams as a pagan idea, which would be odd and unreasonable to the king back then. Truthfully, even though it seems like Shakespeare is apologizing for his questioning of the Great Chain of Being, he's really just questioning it
At the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream, he tries to make up to the audience after disrupting the Great Chain of Being. He is questioning their perception of life throughout the line. At the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck tries to make up to the audience after disrupting the Great Chain of Being. He is questioning their perception of life throughout the line. Puck states: "if we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended" (5.1.440-44). Throughout the play, Shakespeare has been disrupting the Great Chain of Being through women, fairies, and many other things. In the time when he was writing the play, such disruption would not have been tolerated. He uses Puck to tell the audience to disregard anything that has offended them for his safety. Similarly, Puck is also questioning the existence of God in his line by saying that it is all a dream. Back in Shakespeare's time, they thought dreams were messages from God. Freud had not yet explained what they are to the common people, so they had every reason to believe this theory. Nowadays, most people think of dreams as a pagan idea, which would be odd and unreasonable to the king back then. Truthfully, even though it seems like Shakespeare is apologizing for his questioning of the Great Chain of Being, he's really just questioning it