A Midsummer Night's Dream - Theme Identification
Men Dominating Women - Looking back at Romeo and Juliet and other Shakespeare plays, I find that men winning the hearts of women by defeating them is a common occurrence. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus states "Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword," (I, i) implying that Theseus won the love of Hippolyta by defeating her. Adding to this is the struggle of Hermia from her father, Egeus's, will, because she does not want to marry Demetrious for she loves Lysander. And then both the men are chasing Hermia, trying to win her over. Even in Much Ado About Nothing, the male figures had much power, especially in making decisions for the ladies.Conflict Between Father and Daughter - Again powered by other Shakespeare plays is the constant disagreement of a daughter with their ruling father's decisions. Here, Hermia does not want to marry Demetrious like her father is commanding her to. She wants to go with Lysander because she loves him. You hear of this first in Act 1, and then you never see Theseus again until Act 5 when all becomes well. Shakespeare writes many plays with this theme, so one might infer that he is trying to stand up for fem
In showing the weakness in the male's view of love, both the males in the two couples were switched back and forth, constantly fighting of the same girl. It could make the creature, whose eyes it was placed upon, fall in love with the first thing that it sees. Simply having the world of fairies was a way out thing by our eyes, but people at the time were blaming fairies for coming and taking children and doing evil things. Also, the play touches on how opposites can attract, even though they don't seem like they would go together. Titania was also humiliated at having fallen in love with the ugly donkey, and Lysander and Demetrious, I am sure, were quite shaken up at having put down their lovers. Even though this was caused by Puck's 'drugs,' it still resembled the confusion and weakness of love. One thing this show did do is prose many questions, like, 'what is love?' and, 'where does love come from?' The love that was sporadically tossed in the show seemed to be very shallow in the male figures and centered around looks and sex, while the females were the exact opposite. The Play-Within-A-Play - The actors, Bottom, Quince, Flute, Snout, Snug, and Starveling, perform the play Pyramis and Thisbe for Theseus. As in the case of Bottom, who is transfigured into an ass, and Titania, the queen of fairies. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, true and false love is explored, as well as how fragile it really is. The only bad part is that they do a terrible job at performing it. Then the girl changes, but they still keep fighting for the some one. As Lysander said in Act one Scene one, "The course of true love never did run smooth.
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