Saturday, June 7, 2008

A Midsummer Nights Dream Analysis

This play by Shakespeare amazed me because it was a comedy that was written so long ago, but remains very funny even to this day. We see Shakespeare use literary techniques that enter the audience and reader into a dream like state where it is hard to distinguish the truth from what is just a fairy tale. We see a wedding being confused and mixed up due to a fairy's mix up with magic spells. The characters are comical and some try to put on a play for the people getting married, this is pretty much the biggest conflict in the play making it an altogether feel good production. I think that is what shakespeare was going for when he wrote this play, he needed something that would make the audience forget about their troubles and enter a world that was care free and even the biggest mistakes came out as comical.

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