Essays on Midsummer

Fantasy is fiction that is often set in an imaginary universe. Characters exhibit behavior that is out of the ordinary as seen in A Midsummer night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and also Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The two exhibits a child and young lovers get into a fairy tale kind- of life. They transition into a mundane world, they take part in the activities of the magical world that are away from reality and most often the reader gets immersed in it too. The constructed world moves from the conscious and subconscious and vice ...

The Mendelsohn elements, in theory, include portal quest, immersive, intrusion and liminal that helps in classifying the antagonists in the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘The Midsummer Night's Dream.' The protagonists and antagonists from both pieces of fantasy literature have various character traits that are similar and different. Fantasy literature has been used to refer to an imaginary universe that uses magic as well as other supernatural elements. Therefore, the authors have created the characters according to imaginary creatures to fit the overall genre of the story. In most fantasy literature stories, there is a happy ending for the protagonist ...

“Oedipus Rex”, “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, “The Glass Menagerie”

Nowadays, gender issues is a highly relevant topic in modern society which is not only raised in discussions, but also greatly present in the works of art. As one of the purposes of literature is to reflect the greatest concerns and world problems and speak up for them, the works describing the current role of woman in society are of a great importance. Moreover, the way the female characters are presented in the literary works make a great influence on how they are viewed in reality – that is why the depiction of women in literature needs to be thoroughly ...

Woman. One of the greatest creations of God's will or what your religion says. However, it still does not matter at all what is written in your sanctuary book. You just can not argue with that. Look around. They are everywhere, in every part of the world. Even while the human being exists for more that couple of million years, a woman's role in society is still being discussed. Should she take the lead position in the family or not? Is feminism good or not? And many other questions are still left without an answer. There is no absolute ...

Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.

But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so. He will not know what all but he do know. And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. (Shakespeare 142) Now, there can be no denial of the fact that the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, penned by William Shakespeare is one of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed works in the ...

One of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays is the playful and magical A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A play with fairies, young lovers and plenty of humour (largely at Bottom’s expense); this is one of Shakespeare’s most loved stories because of its clever, complicated plot and its entertaining characters. The audience are introduced to the play’s characters: the most important of those being the four young lovers who have a complicated love triangle. Equally as important are the fairies that, arguably, represent the changeable nature of love through Oberon and Titania’s (the fairy king and ...