Analysis Of Midsummer Night s Dream - 1251 Words

Midsummer Night’s Dream is a perfect example of just how deceit can tear people apart. When trying to force a situation into something/ a situation you wish it to be you can end up putting yourself in quite the compromising position. It is a good story on the struggles of true love, parents wills, and fighting for what one believes in, with just a hint a magical alure to it and a slight pull of betrayal to make things even more interesting. In the end though, just as almost every other love story, true love wins out, things are returned to normal, and all is as it was- for the most part. With all of the characters love going for different people than supposed to they now have to find a way around it all, get the love spell lifted, and†¦show more content†¦Senecas second ideal states that plays are set to be modeled for the use of technical devices such as solliliquies, asides, and confidantes. Midsummer Night’s Dream was written in iambic pentameter, rhymed ver se, and catalectic trochaic tetrameter. Throughout the play there are many times where the characters seem to talk for hours. Going on and on about something or other, that they desire more than anything, or need to happen, something they’ll avenge. Although this may seem annoying to the reader, they are useful examples for Sennecas third ideal because of their length. For example Take Helenas Monologue at the end of Act I Scene I; How happy some o er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so. He will not know what all but he do know. And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste— Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. And therefore is Love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. As waggish boys in game themselves forswear, So the boy Love is perjured everywhere. For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne, He hailed down oaths that he was only mine. The third ideal states that Senneca would make use of Elaborate speeches. One of