A Midsummer Nights Dream is a play that was written by the most distinguished dramaturge William Shakespeare. This is a tragic comedy play that is full of passion, love, tragedy and confusion. Especially in Act 3 Scenes 2.

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Year 10 Essay- A Midsummer Nights Dream   

In this essay, I will write about “A Midsummer nights dream”. A Midsummer Nights Dream is a play that was written by the most distinguished dramaturge William Shakespeare. This is a tragic comedy play that is full of passion, love, tragedy and confusion. Especially in Act 3 Scenes 2. Therefore I will discuss Act 3 Scene 2 and show how Shakespeare entertained his audience (Including Queen Elizabeth).

      The reason why Act 3 Scene 2 is the most momentous in this play is because this is the part is full of magic and confusion. And it’s where the main storyline takes place. In this play the audience can see so many things that they can’t be seen in their boring, monotonous lives, like women fighting, fairies, magic and those intricate relationships. And this is also the main reason that this play was so popular in those times, because many people thought that fairies lived in a kingdom of their own and it was fatal to see a fairy, so they felt curious about the play.

      There were many difficulties to performing this play in that time. There weren’t any sound effects, any sophisticated scenery, and no female actresses to perform. Moreover, they had to perform at 2:00 pm in a globe that was without a roof during a hot summer day in Athens. However, Shakespeare used lots of significant language to stimulate the audience’s imagination. For A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare used a lot of descriptive words to show the timing of this play is at night. For example, this can be shown in line 355-357 when Oberon said to Puck “ Hie, therefore, Robin, overcast the night; The starry welkin cover thou anon with drooping fog as black as Acheron” Shakespeare used a simile “as black as Acheron” in the speech to tell his audience think how dark the night is. Acheron is a black river in the hell. When the audience think this word is link to hell, they can imagine darkness, murky, foggy. And this is a very good descriptive word to utilize in the speech. Secondly, this is also can be shown in line 431 when Helena was very fed up of Lasander and Demetius. “ O weary night, O long and tedious night” This is only first sentence of Helena’s speech; it has included ‘night’ 2 times already. I think Shakespeare was trying to remind the audience it is still at nighttime when Helena is performing.

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        As well as this, Shakespeare also tries to tell the audience this part is set in the forest by putting descriptive writing in the speech. This can be shown in line 400 when Puck looking foe the couples. “Up and down, up and down, I will lead them up and down; I am feared in field and town; Goblin, lead them up and down. Hear comes one” In this speech, it used ‘up and down’ to describe the ground is not even and this tells to the audience this scene is set in a forest.

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