There has constantly been attempts to create an elusive, surreal sense to the music. Though the term “fantasy” is hard to be defined, composers have strived to convey the sense of fantasy. From Rachmaninov’s Fantaisie-tableaux, to Debussy’s Fantasie, to Tchaikovsky’s Fantastische Variationen, composers utilized different harmonies, rhythms, and styles to their “fantasy”. Adaptation of supernatural events and characters is one attempt of the fantasy. Before 18th century, the range of the supernatural can be categorized into five: celestial, with the benevolent deities, heaven, and paradise; ceremonial, with prophecies and rituals; ominous, with incantations, dungeons, and death; infernal, with malevolent deities, hell, and demons; and devastating, …show more content…
Perhaps the most pivotal role in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck(also known as Robin Goodfellow, or sometimes, Hobgoblin) makes some deviations from what Oberon had detailed him in the act of carrying it out, thereby stirring the main plot. Puck is Oberon’s allegiant jester who at times can turn crude when it comes to Oberon’s words. But he makes an inadvertent blunder. When Puck sprinkles the love potion over Lysander’s eyelids instead of Demetrius’s, he unintendedly thrusts the four Athenians into swirling love complications. Though in the end Puck undoes the complications he have made, Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, and Helena’s entangled love develops as a major conflict of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Aside from the unforeseen mistake, Puck plays deliberate pranks as well for the sake of his mere joy as mischievous he is. His deed of transforming craftsman Nick Bottom’s head to that of an ass is no more than a prank for his pure fun. After the prank, he joyfully shouts, “My mistress with a monster is in love. …show more content…
Nonetheless, unlike the “terrible”, Mendelssohn’s piece does not exploit full orchestral textures, rapid scale passages, or loud dynamics. The fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream fall into neither good nor evil. With Puck the most central figure, fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are subordinate to their masters. Puck’s mischievousness and rowdiness, expressed through the violin’s fast and high-pitched staccatos, bring about love complications of the Athenians, but he unravels the twist overnight. Anger or conflagrations are not needed in musical portrayal of such character, making it unnecessary for the music to utilize loud dynamics or full orchestral
A Midsummer Night’s Dream not only because of the literary insight it gives, but also the detail it illuminates in the flaws of Lysander
When Oberon sees Hermia’s misery he asks Robin Goodfellow to apply magical juice from a flower on Demetrius’s eyelids. Puck is supposed to make Demetrius fall in love with Helena but instead he puts the love juice into Lysander’s eyes. Then Helena finds sleeping Lysander and wakes him up
One of the major themes that Shakespeare chooses to explore within A Midsummer Night’s Dream is reality versus fantasy. In particular, Shakespeare focuses on presenting a distinctive
This plays out through, almost in the entirety of the middle and final parts of the play where the story gets increasingly interactive as the different characters from the two separate plots merge with each other. A clear and obvious example of this from the play with the character of Oberon, king of the fairies, who disrupts the two plots by interacting or more appropriately, controlling the lovers by sending Puck to make Demetrius fall in love with Helena. This comes about in the narrative when Oberon gives an order to Puck, after he watched Helena discuss her love for Demetrius, inserting himself with the other characters. Puck's order was to gather the flower petals and place the juices of the flower on the eye of Demetrius, which would make him fall in love with Hermia. This all plays out when Oberon says to Puck: “A sweet Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth.
In William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream the circumstances surrounding love have been put into question, this occurs when a magical nectar is put in the eyes of three major characters, and changes their feelings towards the people in their lives. Titania, Lysander and Demetrius all have had the nectar put into their eyes, though Demetrius avoids having this done to him in act 2 scene 2 which is the scene that the focus of this paper will be looking at. Throughout the play, we focus largely on the love life of Helena, which unfortunately does not seem to exist. She is in love with Demetrius, whom does not care for her in the same way, he does not cherish her at all before he is under the influence of magic. Once Lysander declares
This point of view stays the same throughout the story even though the way the story is narrated changes. “And now, if any are offended with this story of fairies and their pranks, as judging it incredible and strange, they have only to think that they have been asleep and dreaming, and that all these adventures were visions which they saw in their sleep: and I hope none of my readers will be so unreasonable as to be offended with a pretty harmless Midsummer Night's Dream.” This part of the story shows how the point of view of the story is still from the narrator even though now the story has changed to first person
More specifically the fairies. Rather than the free-spirited lovers of life bestowed in the text, the fairies in the film are whimpering, frivolous, petulant party animals. This is strikingly true of Puck who has been converted from a boyish charmer into a rude, middle-aged lizard who revels in taking a leak in the forests after drinking too much wine. Thus changing the mood of the story and its perspective by the reader or viewer.
Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream film adaptation creates a fantastical spin on the well-known Shakespeare play. The director is able to create an effective dream-like setting with the use of projections, lighting, and puppetry. From the beginning, there is a sense of wonder created, as without word or introduction, Puck, played by Kathryn Hunter, glides onto stage and lays down on a mattress supported by branches. Puck is then lifted into the air and a large white sheet consumes the stage. Even for those familiar with the play, such as myself, it immediately commands your mind to travel to the dream world Taymor has created.
Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night’s Dream depicts a number of human truths including: lust, disappointment, confusion, deception, choice, betrayal, and marriage. The story begins with Hermia refusing to comply with her father Egeus 's wish for her to marry Demetrius. In response, Egeus turns to a law requiring a daughter to marry a prospected man chosen by her father, or else face death or lifelong chastity as a nun. Faced with this dilemma, Hermia and her lover Lysander elope by going into the forest. Hermia tells this to her best friend Helena, but Helena in turn reveals the plan to Demetrius in an attempt to win back his favor.
In the real world, love is a very fragile force. Love can be easily broken and manipulated by multiple other outside forces. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the two most basic themes are the chaos and order that are the causes of all the actions that take place. Chaos versus order in A Midsummer Night’s Dream also is a representation of Yin and Yang. Yin, represents the bad or darkness in the world, this is the chaos in the play.
Toba Beta once said: "“Justice could be as blind as love.” Shakespeare 's play A Midsummer Night 's Dream captures the blind bias of both love and justice. Egeus, a respected nobleman in Athens, arranged for his daughter, Hermia, to marry nobleman Demetrius. Egeus tells his daughter that she must obey his wishes: if she does not, she can either choose to become a nun, or die. Hermia, much to her father 's dismay, is deeply in a mutual love with a different nobleman, Lysander.
With many of the different scenes throughout the play, the theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is that love is difficult. In the play when Hermia 's father tries to tear Hermia and Lysander
This is seen in act one, scene two, when Puck is telling another fairy of his mischievous behavior “I jest to Oberon / and make him smile / When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, / Neighing in likeness of a filly foal…” (30-43). Another trait of Puck’s which is found in his actions throughout the play is that he is mistake prone. A prime example of this is when he pours the flower love potion into Lysander’s eyes instead of Demetrius and ends up causing quite the love triangle in act two scene one. Puck is also a symbol of darkness within the magical fairy world when he reminds all of the creepy occurrences and scary thoughts that night brings in act five, scene one-
Philosophical approach on the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream Submitted to: Prof. Eliezer V. David Submitted by: Jan MarveManaligod KristianDacara Bryan RonhellTangonan MarckRacell Diego BSME-2C Philosophy is the study of the theoretical basis of a particular branch of knowledge or experience. In every story there is a philosophy. It is the way of the author to show the moral lesson of the play.
Due to the fact that the character’s looks are never specified in Shakespeare’s a Midsummer Night’s Dream, it is up to the reader to decide what the characters look like. The main characters Demetrius, Lysander, Helena and Hermia all have distinct personalities that set themselves apart from each other. Demetrius is a noble with a fickle, and arrogant personality. His image has clothing lined with gold, a look of arrogance, and a fickle personality. First of all, Demetrius’ clothing is lined with gold and other jewels, around the ends of his clothing and boots.