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Submitted by lpfh102 on May 12, 2008
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"The course of true love never did run smooth."(Robinson, 2005). This quote is certainly true because in our world and in the Midsummer Night Dreams world love is chosen by the ones who are in a higher social rank. It is therefore necessary to realize that A Midsummer Night's Dream is really a play about finding oneself in order to be free of the authoritative conflicts (Smith, 2008). In the play, the course of love is complicated even further by the magical creatures that intervene in the affairs of the human characters, as the government does with citizen’s life (Robinson, 2005). Midsummer Night Dream, by William Shakespeare, is a drama that tells a story of lovers and how their lives are decided by others who have more power. In the play there is a clear division of kingdoms: the human and the fairy kingdom. Theseus and Hippolyta are the rulers of the “human world” and Oberon and Titania are the fairy king and queen. The lovers are Hermia-Lysander and Helena-Demetrious. This research will be about how the division of power in the play compares with the social classes of today: high, middle and low class.
Talking about high class, which is represented by Theseus-Hippolyta (human) and Oberon-Titania (fairys), we can say that it shows the power of two different worlds. The fairy world is more powerful than the human world because of the super natural abilities they have, like disappearing and using magical formulas to control feelings. The human world is controlled by the laws. It is clearly shown when Egeus, father of Hermia, states:
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“as she is mine, I may dispose of her: which shall be either to this gentleman or to her death, according to our law immediately provided in that case” (Shakespeare, 2002). Theseus agreed with this law since he is the one who establish it. Theseus is a man of power as Frank Sidgwick say in his analogue for a Midsummer Night Dreams “Theseus and Hercules were thus...
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