“When three worlds collide”. Show how Shakespeare underlines the differences between the immortal and mortal worlds in a Midsummer Nights Dream. Refer to all three worlds and show how they clash.

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Midsummer nights dream

Hannah Mackenzie

“When three worlds collide”. Show how Shakespeare underlines the differences between the immortal and mortal worlds in a Midsummer Nights Dream. Refer to all three worlds and show how they clash.

This essay is going to tell you about the differences in three worlds, the play is by Shakespeare and is called “A Midsummer Nights Dream”. Shakespeare, in London, it was written between 1589 and 1595. The time the play has been set in is ancient Greece mixed with renaissance England. The place it was set in is Athens and the forest that’s surrounding its walls.

 Is this time period the people who would watch the play would have believed in fairies and magic so that’s why they are included. They make the play more interesting and make it different. The fairies make it more interesting and appeal to people of all ages. The play is about a wedding, and in the play there is a play about two lovers, it was thought that Shakespeare wrote “ A Midsummer Nights Dream” for a wedding or a wedding feast. My essay will include differences between mortals and immortals. I will write about the clashes in the three worlds the courts, the working class, and the fairies. The play is about four lovers Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena. When the four lovers go into the woods the immortals get involved and the lover’s feelings get muddled about. The play also includes a play in it, which is performed by some working class mortals; the immortals also interfere in this as well. The play also shows how daughters of nobility would be given to the husband of her parents choice, even if she didn’t like that person. The four lovers, where Hermia is meant to marry Demetruis but she loves Lysander, and Helena lovers Demetruis, show this in the play. Helena is very direct in what she says for a woman of her class.

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        So there are three groups of characters. Firstly the courts people, who are mixed up in love. Lysander is a young man of Athens, he is deeply in love with Hermia. He cannot marry her openly because of Egeus, Hermia’s father, he wants her to marry Demetrius. Demetrius is originally in love with Hermia, and in the end he falls in love with Helena. Demetrius’s pursuit of Hermia throws love out of the balance among the four. Hermia is in love with Lysander and is the childhood friend of Helena. But after the fairies play there tricks and use Oberon’s ...

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