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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare Essay
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays. Bringing up such topics as love, fate, jealousy, desperation, and magic, it is a beautiful and deep romantic comedy full of contrasts and illusions. The play is also very controversial depicting interactions between the characters from different worlds, backgrounds, cultures and epochs. But it is still fun and educative to read.
What fascinated me about A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the Shakespeare’s portrayal of life on the verge of the real world and the world of magic and dreams in the forest with fairies. It is so skillful that sometimes you together with the main characters start asking yourself “Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream” (Shakespeare IV.i.200-202).
What is also impressing about the play is the way of depicting love through a prism of magic it brings to our lives as well as desperation and disappointment, “The course of love never did run smooth” (Shakespeare I.i.136). It also reminds us that there is no need to be in a rush as we live because everything happens for a reason and “things growing are not ripe until their season” (Shakespeare II.ii.124).
What is even more spectacular about A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the atmosphere it creates and makes a reader lose himself in. It is not only about a constant interweaving of real and magical worlds but also songs, dance, music, and festival setting a rhythm of the story. The play is delightful to read because it elevates emotions and sets on thinking. It is and will be loved because it brings up a true-life issue – how powerful love is in transforming people and their lives.
Works Cited
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Logan, IA: Perfection Learning, 2004. Print.
