A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
By:
Yuly Rocío Rincón Jiménez
A midsummer night’s dream, one of the most popular works of William Shakespeare. This is a romantic comedy written in 1965 andapparently it was made in order to commemorate the weeding of a couple of noble lineage. The plot of the story is based not only on dreams and reality but also in love and magic.
Fairies,human beings and a goblin take place in this story. The comedy presents the story of three pairs of human lovers (Theseus and Hippolyta, Lysander and Hermia and Demetrius and Helena) and the king andqueen of fairies (Oberon and Titania) which enjoy and bear at the same time of love. Due to reasons which only destiny knows, these lovers arrive together to the same place at the same time, a cold butbeautiful wood at night.
These characters together a group of actors which go to the same wood, mix their destinies due to a series of mistakes and tricks that Puck, a meek goblin who servesOberon makes to everyone of them. This story is development in three acts which this problematic is presented in a funny way. At the end, all suffers and sorrows get solve leaving just a midsummernight’s dream.
A midsummer night’s dream is a very interesting story. As I wrote previously, fantasy and reality are together in such a way that it looks so natural. It allows to the readers getinvolved in this history in such a way that they can wonder about love; is love a feeling that is born inside every one of us due to a special affection that we have to another person? or is love aneffect of the destination which predisposes us of who we could fall in love or who we could lack of love; either to love someone and being corresponded, or to love to someone and the only correspondencereceived of that feeling is being maltreated in the worst way; either to love a noble gentleman of high lineage or to love a donkey which everybody can see who is it less the person that fall in…
