Midsummer Night Dream Compare And Contrast Essay

Michael Hoffman’s 1999 film version of Shakespeare's midsummer night’s dream was able to modify the audience experience of the play. Michael Hoffman had successfully turned the play into a film and was able to show a visible expression of the characters to the audience. He had also made some changes, like the settings and made his version modernized. Though the film was based on the Shakespeare’s play, the audience’s experience is still different.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as in many of Shakespeare's plays the main theme is love. Shakespeare presents many different aspects of love in the play. He shows how love can affect your vision of reality and make you behave in irrational ways. He presents many ways in which your behavior is affected by the different types and aspects of love. The main types of love he presents are; true love, unrequited love, sisterly love, jealous love, forced love, and parental love. Shakespeare tries to show what kinds of trouble, problems and confusion, love can get you into.

I also had compared Act Two, Scene 3, in the play and the film. The setting in the play is on a Saturday, moving day, one week later. In the film, the setting is the same as the play, with lighting and costumes. The plot in the play is Linder tries to buy back the house from the Younger family. In the film, the plot is the same as the play. The dialogue in the film has some deletions from play; new dialogue is added in replacement of the deleted dialogue. Some film techniques used in this scene are: the film cuts back and forth to different characters, and the room is well lit with the sunshine coming in through the window. Perhaps the biggest

“Beware of your stereotypes and prejudices, they can trap you in a box and make you miss what life has to offer you”─Med Yones. One has to see past the stereotypes in life, just as one should do for A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. This literature masterpiece entails a quarrel of a pair of lovers caught entangled in a treacherous web of tainted love and magic. This comedy, viewed through the archetypal literary criticism lens─which focuses on the stereotypical aspects─, makes the audience wonder and push beyond the boundaries of the stereotypes with the tale. Combined with its other elements, A Midsummer Night's Dream is more entertaining and meaningful when viewed through the archetypal literary criticism lens; such as in Act 1: scene 1; Act 3: scene 2; and Act 5: scene 1 in both the printed text and the 1999 film versions.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Puck and Bottom are different in many ways including the way they behave, their sense of humour, and how they deal with their problems. Puck may be considered a protagonist because he is the character who puts the remedy on Lysander’s eyes and corrects the love problems with the Athenian lovers. Puck makes the mistake by putting the love potion on Lysander’s eyes, making him fall in love with Helena, forgetting Hermia. This causes problems because Hermia is still in love with Lysander and Demetrius is in love with Hermia. Like every protagonist, Puck fixes his mistakes and makes everything rights again.

Love is shown and interpreted in different ways. In William Shakespeare’s novel Midsummer Night Dream, there are many kinds of relationship involving “love”. The theme of love is represented through the relationship between Oberon and Titania, love between Demetrius and Helena, Lysander and Hermia and the friendship love between Hermia and Helena.

One of the main differences between the play and movie is the timeframe of the story. In the play, we open in 1945, and flashback to the story as they go into hiding, and ends right as they leave, flashing back to 1945. In the movie, we start in 1942 long before going into hiding, and we proceed chronologically to the point in 1945 that the play started in.

One of the differences from the movie is the time period. In the movie the time period is around 1996 (20th century), but in the play it is in the 1400’s (15th century). The director, Baz Luhrmann made the movie in the 20th century, so it's easier for us to understand. The actors in the movie use cars and guns to make it more realistic for us because people use guns and cars in this century. The plot of the movie is in a city, with skyscrapers and tall buildings. We can relate to big cities and tall buildings because most people have been to big cities. In the movie, it opens up with a lady on the television and they didn’t have televisions in the play, which was during the 15th century so we can relate more to the movie.

Love is truly a mystery, no one knows exactly how or why it works, but it is the feeling of love that is similar to a dream. William Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the 1500’s. The play includes five acts and shares many characteristics with his other works. It is about two lovers that are separated on many occasions, but somehow still fight for each other. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare shows that love can overcome even the largest obstacles through Lysander by his undying commitment to Hermia .

There are many interesting themes that are explored in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare. The major themes include love, marriage, dreams, and magic. The theme of love and marriage is the most dominant and is very fascinating, as it still applies to our modern day society. How are the different attitudes to love and marriage shown? Shakespeare conveys these attitudes through the characters’ words and actions. Hermia and Lysander, two young Athenian lovers, wish to get married. However, Hermia’s father, Egeus, and the ruler of Athens, Theseus, oppose this and say Hermia should marry a man of Egeus’s choosing. These characters show the most contrasting attitudes towards love and marriage.

Brelby Theatre Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream really brought magic to life. The story of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream follows the lives of Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, Lysander as they sort out their romantic lives. Meanwhile, Titania and Oberon, the King and Queen of fairies fight over a young boy. Their servant, Puck, helps everyone figure out what they want. Also, a theatre group prepares a show to perform for the wedding of Hippolyta and Theseus.

William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream utilizes the technique of multiple characters playing leading roles. The fairy character Puck stands out as a dominant and leading role in the play. Puck is the best fit for the role of the protagonist because he is mischievous and therefore, has the ability to change the outcome of the play through his schemes and actions. As the protagonist, Puck is responsible for creating the major conflict that occurs between the four lovers throughout the play. This is important because the play focuses on the lives and relationships of the lovers. In addition, because of Puck’s interaction with these characters, his actions throughout the play, alters the final outcome. Finally, Puck’s

Shakespeare has written many plays and no two plays are the exact same, but there are some similarities. Having read some of his most famous plays just proves that Shakespeare had a certain style. Hamlet is a tragic play resulting in the death of most of the main characters while A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy where there is a common theme of mistaken identity. Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are two very different plays with contrasting; symbols, themes, and characterization the difference in these plays shows the complexity of Shakespeare’s writing styles. One of the main differences of these two plays is the way the characters are portrayed.

A Midsummer nights Dream is known as one of Shakespeare’s most popular and most performed plays worldwide. Although there are many versions of the play, they tend to stay true to the original characters, setting, and them. However in Michael Hoffman's 1999 film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, he breaks the traditional rules by first changing the setting. Hoffman sends the comedic action from ancient Athens to an imaginary Italian village named Monte Athena during the nineteenth century. In this portrayal of the play, Duke Theseus is nothing but a tired and seemingly unimportant bureaucrat, rather than a victorious hero as shown in the play. On the same note, Hippolyta, Theseus’s bride-to-be, previously referred to as the Queen of the

Midsummer Night’s Dream begins in the palace of Theseus, Duke of Athens. Theseus a mythical Greek hero is about to marry Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, a mythical race of women-warriors. Hermia’s father, Egeus, comes before the Duke to ask that she be punished by law for disobeying him. Hermia wants to marry Lysander and Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius. The law he asks to be invoked provides that she die or enter a nunnery if she doesn’t obey her father. We learn that Demetrius, hermia’s father’s choice, has abandoned Helena. Helena still loves her unfaithful Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia plan to elope. They tell Helena, who says she’ll tell Demetrius. All four lovers will