Assignment on Critical Analysis on A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy play that combines different other elements as well that includes love, fairies, magic along with dreams as well. This is a play and this whole play is about comedy that revolves around five different couples who go through the love’s strange games along with the evil that is behind the conniving tricks.

The play opens on the note of a desire as the Theseus. Main confliction gets introduced when the trouble of the lover takes upon the center stage. The question may arise here that whom the different characters should love versus to who they do love drives out a plot from this point on. Here the audience may understand this all of a sudden that Hermia and the Lysander both of them belong to each other. There are different other couples as well who have been mentioned here in the play in detail. Oberon is the one that gives an instruction to the fairy puck to apply out the charm that will easily fall out two different person from the same couple to fall in love the moment they see each other.

Apart from solving out the different problems that are associated with the human lovers, fairy mischief is the one that makes out all the lover’s problems even more worse and then transforming friendship among different people in the form of rivalry. There are different characters in the play who were very good friends and then they ended up fighting and became enemies to one another.

As the title of the play suggests, dreams are much important theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and they are being linked or associated to the bizarre. Theme of the dreaming recurs in a predominant way when all of the characters make an attempt to explain out the bizarre events in which all such characters are being involved.

Then another theme is the jealousy that is being operated in the human along with the fairy realms in the Midsummer Night’s Dreams.

Reference of A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

Lamb, M. E. (2000). Taken by the Fairies: Fairy Practices and the Production of Popular Culture in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare Quarterly, 51(3), 277-312.