NAME: MARIANNE G.

DUMANGCAS
COURSE & YR: BSED- ENG III

REACTION PAPER OF ISEULT GILLESPIE TED TALK VIDEO

Shakespeare uses the idea of love, creativity, fantasy, and dreaming to create an
overall meaning for his works in A Midsummer Night's Dream. A Midsummer Night's
Dream mesmerizes the reader with a tale which is both a romantic and a work of fiction,
set mainly over the course of one night in the woods, and used a variety of imaginative
imagery, loveable characters, and entrancing humor. The seemingly unpredictable
plotline is strongly inspired by carnival, mischief, and illusion, but it also brings us to a
world where we could all find human connection, entertainment, and inspiration. Act V
features his play which focuses on his themes and illustrates the audience's relationship
with the performers on stage. Quince's disorganized prologue to the play reflects the
distorted reality that characterizes the dreamy, nighttime woods; eventually, the
interjected play highlights Shakespeare's higher purpose of improving the effectiveness
of imagination and dreaming. A Midsummer Night's Dream, like most of Shakespeare's
plays, draws inspiration from a multitude of outlets, magical motifs, and other fictions.
For us readers, it is probably the simplest of Shakespeare's plays to read and
comprehend. With us readers, appreciation of fantasy, can reach more strongly than in
past eras. The terminology is brilliant, the characters are diverse, and even non-
Shakespeare readers will notice the humor. The love stories, the sexual overtones, the
humor of mistaken identities, Bottom's foolishness, the magic of the fairies mixed with
their human traits of jealousy and unreasonableness, and Puck flitting from person to
person, attempting to fix his as well as the human mistakes are all there to make an
audience enjoy the play. In simple terms, "What fools these mortals be" is the theme of
this fun play. This concept has been used today to describe a variety of issues apart from
romance. Love, yes, can make us foolish, and so can other things. It is something that
we claim for almost every situation where we're not using our minds properly.
Shakespeare examines how individuals fell madly in love with each other that appear to
be attractive.  People we believed we cherished at one point in life may become
unattractive, although not actually disgusting. For a brief moment, this attraction to
beauty may appear to be love at its most passionate, but one of the play's primary
issues is that real love is about more than physical desire. It's definitely still significant
because it's about love, stupidity, dreams, and fantasy, and we still do all of those
things, though we've forgotten a few references. That not everyone in the audience
today would recognize the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, which was featured in the play,
and that it is a tragedy. We all have encountered love, cleverness, and felt something
out of fascination at some phase in our existence. This story must be reviewed by
everyone because it illustrates how life is full of illusions and desires. That love is not
really a perfect concept, and that it takes someone to continue to love somebody. This
story will make us contemplate life's journey and how it changes and if I were to
incorporate a moral lesson to the play, it would most probably be a teaching moment
about intervening into matters which aren't your concern.  Due to the fairies' meddling,
Titania, their queen, falls in love with a literal ass, which represents also Puck's
character.

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