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The Dirty Truth In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Dirty Truth

As you walk into an untouched forest you feel some kind of freedom of your soul. Feeling the clean air filling your lungs, the warm sunlight on your face, and your mind running free; there is nothing to compare. However some do not experience that walking into a forest. Instead they enjoy the order, power and walls of society. In Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the forest and the Athenian court meet each other in unusual ways. Peter Hall’s film visualizes these transitions though the differences of the two settings, how love changes in those settings, and even the physical appearances of the lovers. The first scene we witness takes place in the court while a concerned father takes his daughter, Hermia, to Theseus to settle an issue of love. Both Demetrius and Lysander are madly in love with Hermia but she only loves Lysander. Theseus agrees with Hermia’s father. Hermia and Lysander plan to rebel and get married in the forest along with Helena and Demetrius. As the couples retreat to the forest that night there seems to be a change. The most Obvious one is between Helena and Demetrius. …show more content…

He then advises her to not follow her own will and think her decisions through more carefully. This is an example of the social structure that has been formed. Then the lovers decide to rebel and escape to the wild to marry against the approval of both Egeus and Theseus. This implies they don't like the structure of the Court. At the end of the film Theseus, soldiers, and Egeus find the couples sleeping the forest. This shows the Court, represented by the king, meeting the natural world. In a turn of events Theseus changes his mind about the couples and approves their marriages and reasons with the father. As a truth of the forest love can not be contained by the walls of

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