Friend or Fairy?
            
            
            
             A Midsummer Night's Dream is the best of Shakespeare's early comedies. It is an unrealistic fantasy concerning lovers, fairies and royalty. Its action centers around four lovers' plights brought about by the fantasy world in which they enter. All through this play, there is a supernatural force that changes the lives of all that come in its path. However, the audience naturally questions whether this supernatural force is real, or is it merely just a dream. Regardless of whether it is an illusion or not, can be debated endlessly depending on what viewpoint one chooses to support. The bottom line is that supernatural illusions are at the heart of this Shakespearean play A Midsummer Night's Dream. These illusions are represented to the audience by the means of fairies who are able to intervene with whom ever they please. The fairy world created by Shakespeare for this play, whether real or fantasy, is full of chaos, hardships and confusion that instantaneously effects the inhabitants of the real world. Throughout the play, there are many facts to support the argument that the fantasy world of the fairies is indeed contaminated with faults. There are three main groups of people that provide evidence that shows the corruption associated with the fairies. Puck, a mischievous spirit clearly illustrates this corruption by creating various problems to many of the characters in the play. The four young lovers also provide proof of the chaos occurring when they are deeply impacted by the fairies' irrational actions. Last but not least, the King and Queen of the fairies clearly demonstrate to the audience that the fairy world is a world full of jealousy and envy. Perceived by others, a fairy world is a world of peace and harmony, however; Shakespeare certainly demonstrates to the audience that even a dream world carries its imperfections.
             With Puck's entrance upon the workmen&a...