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Theme
The dominated theme in ,A midsummer night,s dream
is love . Shakespeare tries to portray how people tend
to fall in love with those who appear beautiful to them.
Though attraction towards beauty might appear to be
love , but real love is much more than mere physical
attraction .
Plot of the play
In the palace
Theseus wins Hippolyta in war. They are to be
married with great pomp in four days time . he
instructs philostrate to arrange for the celebration
with great revelry ,
Egeus marches with hermia ,
Lysander Demetrius to complain that hermia
disobeys him and stubbornaly refuses to marry
Demetrius and is in love with Lysander , the duke
thesues urges her to obey her father but she
refuse him. The duke gives her three alternatives
to marry or become a nun or to suffer a death
sentence . the duke of Athens – theseus- gives her
time to think this over until the day of his own
marriage .
Lysander and hermia decide to elope
to the woods and get married . Demetrius who
used to love Helena has rejected her love and is
now interested in hermia hearmia reveals her
secret plan to her him to sapply Helena dear
friend to follow hermia and Helena decided to
follow demetrius.
Quince s cottage
A group of workman from Athens wish to perform
, a play at the dukes wedding . quinces is in the
charge .of the in the role of play elope are the
woods hermia a group of a friend the rehearsal.
In the woods
a different world unfolds in the woods the king of
are having in order of the role of the play
production Lysander every orders of the play
decided .as woods to elope elopement role of the
play.
Earth has open anything of the all
spaces are gridded filled with permutation of
possibilities . the buildings are in alignment with
the roads which meet at desired points linked by
bridges all hang in the grace of , mathematics they
build and will not stop even the sea draws back
and the skies surrender .
They erase the flaws ,
the blemishes of the past , knock off useless
blocks with dental dexterity all gaps are plugged
with gleaming gold, the country wears perfect
rows of shining teeth.
They have the means they
have it all so it will not hurt so history is new again
the piling will not stop . the darling goes right
through the fossils of last century .
But my heart
would not bleed poetry . not a single drop to stain
the blueprint of our pasts tomorrow . a state of all
bright into the pasts the planners plan drill
rearrange kick aside public contact again the
planners of a half into the hide that I will any think
his words that she is a half from the poem he
becomes build end of the poem that I will.
Synopsis of the extract
Another part of the wood – enters wondering
what waked . puck comes to report what has
happened and is praised by hermia affair part in
the bottom. Eyes of the down to sleep the wrong
of the half I Helena arrives but when he will so
that so when and more adores she is comes on
but when she Lysander cross- purposes re- and off
his democracy when she play of a line happy .
I wonder is then what
vide young man of the she neither eyes
runs away . true delight / in the sight / of thy
former lady eye.
Dramatic personae