Metaphors In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Melisa Pierre-Louis Professor Brett English 10 December 2nd, 2016 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Annotated essay. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is a comedy that contains a lot of aspects. They communicate in one way or another to the audience, depending on how we (the audience) analyze what Shakespeare is trying to convey. Many authors have published articles that treats the subject based upon one aspect of the play. One important element of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the disparity that is distinguished between reality and a world inhabited by fairies and other magical beings and forces.

Throughout Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, magic, illusion, and enchantment maintain common themes surrounding the main characters in the play. Most simply, magic is surely in the eye of the beholder - whether they realize it or not. Inherently, love, can be viewed as a type of illusion, or better yet, magic. This being said, perspective is one of the most important elements to consider when analyzing what relation magic has to love; and in this case it is illustrated both as supernatural and natural. As we can clearly recognized in the play, love is portrayed a type of magic - this is the “natural” side of things.

Many authors who write plays include several different types of figurative languages to emphasize meaning within the play itself. Shakespeare, a famous English poet, often called the master of figurative writing has embedded many figurative languages within his plays including Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare's eloquence has inspired many authors to have figurative languages within their plays. Many of Shakespeare's figurative languages can be found in his soliloquies to express further meaning of what the character is saying. In a soliloquy said by Juliet herself, Shakespeare has included figurative writing such as: Allusion to give the reader an understanding of Juliet's impatience to see Romeo, foreshadowing to provide insight of a tragedy bound to happen later on, and a metaphor to help the reader understand Juliet's comparison between Romeo's lightness and the worlds darkness.

There are many similarities and differences between some of literature’s most famous works. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare can be compared to Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird. Both works are very well-known to most. There are obvious relationships between the two. Despite an obvious difference, that one is a play and one is a novel, they can be compared with their plot, literary devices and subjects.

William Russell English 9 2/28/17 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Essay (Final Draft) For centuries, literary works have relied on love to establish engaging subplots and presidential character motivations; however, different authors have interpreted this complex emotion with varying degrees of success. In the play A Midsummer Night's Dream, love is depicted differently depending on the relational status of the characters and the situations in which they are involved in. In the beginning of the play, Shakespeare establishes the indecisive and conflicted relationship that has formed between Theseus and Hippolyta. This is an example of forced love. In the first act, Theseus states, "I wooed thee with my sword," in order to articulate his triumph

Lysander references the word “beauteous” in 1.1.104 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare when describing the splendor of Hermia. This comment not only sets the tone for how Lysander loves Hermia, but also what their love is built on. Lysander’s confession, “I am beloved of beauteous Hermia” (1.1.104), is a bold one made in front of Egeus and gives insight to the budding couple’s love. By stating this, Lysander, and therefore Shakespeare, gives the reader an understanding of how language could have been used and manipulated in that time. Beauteous is a critical word used in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream not only because of the literary insight it gives, but also the detail it illuminates in the flaws of Lysander

Love is portrayed many different ways and in many different situations. Love is also a very popular topic in literature. For Example, in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, there are many kinds of love portrayed, as well as, kinds of situations that the love is shown through. Some of the kinds of love that Shakespeare conveyed in the play were parental love, passionate love, and playful love. Shakespeare uses these to show the different relationships between each character.

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Importance of Dreams As the title indicates, dreams are an important theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A dream is not real, although it does seem real when we experience it. Shakespeare seems to be interested in the workings of dreams. He likes for things to happen without an explanation. He also likes to incorporate dreams because they change the flow of time, and impossible situations occur.

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