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A Midsummer Night's Dream Essay

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a romantic comedy that was written by Shakespeare in 1596. It begins with confused relationship among 4 characters which are Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena. Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other, Demetrius also loves Hermia, and Helena loves Demetrius. The unfair wedding of Demetrius and Hermia leads them to chaos in the jungle where the fairies live. In the jungle, Demetrius was spelled by mistaken that make he falls in love with Helena. Finally, it ends with marriage, happiness, and celebration. Although this movie ends with this rule of comedy, there are scholars who notice some tragedy beneath the happy ending, which are Hermia’s father disagrees with the marriage of Lysander and Hermia and

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