“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own” is a quote inspired by H Jackson Brown Jr. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a romantic fantasy written by the great William Shakespeare. This story focuses on two young men, Lysander and Demetrius, as they both fall in love with Hermia while lonely Helena hopes to pursue Demetrius. However, a mishap in the woods causes an error and mixes up the love rectangle. On the other hand, Mamma Mia! is a romantic comedy directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Mamma Mia! is about a girl named Sophia who hopes to find her biological father by inviting three possible fathers to her wedding. These two brilliant comedies are shown to exhibit characteristics that may often be found within a fairy tale. These include but are not …show more content…
The problem in A Midsummer’s Night Dream is aimed towards Robin Goodfellow’s mistake in the forest involving a love rectangle. This love rectangle lies between Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena. An enchantment leaves them to pursue different partners and blinded by magic. Eventually, all is returned into good order as the spell is reversed. Similarly, the problem in Mamma Mia! is based on Sophie’s wishes to reunite with her father. This proves to be quite difficult because of Donna’s three relationships around the time of her pregnancy. In the end, they all agree to be one third of Sophie’s father and celebrate together. Both of the stories effectively stated a problem as the main characters managed to solve it. In another example, fairy tales are known to finish with a happy ending as the problem is resolved. In A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Lysander and Hermia end up getting married and so did Demetrius and Helena. At the wedding, Similarly, Mamma Mia! ended with Donna and Sam getting married as Sophie and Sky’s wedding was postponed as they wanted to travel the world. Both works concluded with a happy ending which is a common characteristic of a fairy
Having read the play “A Streetcar named Desire” by Tennessee Williams and watched the film “Blue Jasmine” directed by Woody Allen, I believe that Williams ‘ character Blanche deserves more sympathy than Allen’s character Jasmine. “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Blue Jasmine” similarly tell the story of a socialite who faces an epic downfall in life. Woody Allen’s film manages to parallel Tennessee’s original “A Streetcar Named Desire” whilst adding a modern twist and subtle adaptations. Despite the similar experiences of the two characters, Blanche faces shame, embarrassment, and guilt to a greater extent compared to Jasmine and therefore is more deserving of our sympathy.
The confusion between “wants” and “needs” is greatly displayed in the movie, “Blue Jasmine” and the book, “A Streetcar Named Desire”. Both main characters, Jasmine and Blanche, have lived lives almost the same as the other but if compared, Blanche has lived worse therefore, she deserves my sympathy.
Love is chaotic and free, and because love is so powerful, we often do extreme and erratic things to capture it. The tradition of marriage, or mawage, is so firmly established in history that the gender roles common to marriage are often inescapable, no matter how strong love is, or how powerful a person is. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare uses imagery to portray the theme of gender roles and show how love has the spell-bounding power to either change or reinforce those roles.
Throughout this school year our Honors English class has been spending time reading and analyzing multiple classic books, all of which I find intriguing. This includes "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Odyssey", "Candide", and my personal favorite, "Things Fall Apart." This book emphasizes cultural ideas of both the Europeans and the native Africans as they face conflict. The characters in "TFA" demonstrate two different ways to react to conflict. Out of the many books we've read throughout this year, "TFA" was easily the best.
Humanity has struggled with the enormity of fate since the beginning of existence. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth demonstrate fate’s wicked nature where its collision with mortals results in absolute tragedy. However, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, fate assumes a lighter identity, a stark contrast to fate’s usually ugly face. This new role also demonstrates a new relationship between man and fate. Shakespeare’s use of dramatic irony illustrates the parallel between the mortal and immortal worlds to present the grave concept of fate in an unthreatening manner, thus enabling man to comprehend the inexplicable.
...n every fairy tales, the tragedy identifies their own unique character, and symbolizes the plot to overcome it. After overcoming the hard times, during the plot is solved, and then describes the happy ever after. In The Shining the happy ever after was when Wendy and Danny were able get into the snow car and flee together, while Jack was freezing and dying. Sometimes the happy ever after do not happen with a kiss. In Hazel and Gretel the characters were able to trick the witch and scape. So, the fairy tales the evil never dies, but is destroyed.
"Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it." (Ray Bradbury) Love has always been a prominent subject in literature due to its relatability. Authors have often used love to convey certain messages, to move their stories along or simply to further captivate the reader's attention. Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Shakespeare take advantage of this by including love into their pieces of writing. Othello and The Great Gatsby both demonstrate similar portrayals of love. The love that is depicted between characters, the author's general message surrounding love and the use of love as a sub-theme all prove that these two publications resemble one another.
Comparing Two Film Versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Introduction The two films we have been asked to compare are both different versions of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. The first was a big screen movie, by Michael Hoffman and made in 1998. This film was set in the 19th Century in the fictional city of Monte Athena and starred major actors and actresses such as Sophie Marceau, Kelvin Klein, Rupert Everett and Calista Flockhart. The second was a budget film made for channel 4 by Royal Shakespeare Company. Adrian Noble was the producer
Love plays a very significant role in this Shakespearian comedy, as it is the driving force of the play: Hermia and Lysander’s forbidden love and their choice to flee Athens is what sets the plot into motion. Love is also what drives many of the characters, and through readers’ perspectives, their actions may seem strange, even comical to us: from Helena pursuing Demetrius and risking her reputation, to fairy queen Titania falling in love with Bottom. However, all these things are done out of love. In conclusion, A Midsummer Night’s Dream displays the blindness of love and how it greatly contradicts with reason.
In the common world, the newfound love is believed to change people’s lives by giving them new perspective of the world – often beneficial but also often negative. In one of the most beloved work of Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oberon, the king of the fairies, feel jealous of prideful minded Titania, the queen of the fairies, for which Oberon uses a magic love potion to hoodwink Titania into falling in love with a donkey-headed man. Similarly, in Hitchcock’s movie Vertigo, Scottie’s vertigo results him to be used as a victim for the cunning plan of Elster, Scottie’s old friend, for killing Elster’s wife. Nevertheless, Scottie ends up falling in love with Judy, a woman who disguises herself as Elster’s wife, which prevents Scottie
Shakespeare meaning of friendship is somewhat similar to our definition today; a relationship that involves affectionate companionship. He does a good job at involving strong, complex same-sex friendships while the main plots of both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing consist of marriage of the opposite sex. The plays are similar in the aspect that the relationships are strong to begin with and that there are some outside forces that get in the way to try and destroy or disrupt those relationships. The difference is the disruption, the effect that strength has on the relationship, and the interactions within the relationships. Shakespeare uses character interactions in same-sex friendships to intensify the plot and to serve
Love is only as strong as the people who share it. In William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there are relationships from all different viewpoints of love. Four Athenian lovers are caught in a web of love for the wrong person, according to fellow peevish characters. Along the story line of the play, one will be introduced to additional characters that try to be helpful by committing acts they presume will benefit the young lovers, but these characters actually create plot-twists. Also, there are other characters that have the authority to change whatever they feel is necessary without thinking twice. Furthermore, throughout this humored play, Shakespeare portrays various forms of love through arranged marriages, forbidden love, magically tampered love, and unanticipated romances to show how there’s no right or wrong way to love someone.
Othello The movie O, directed by Tim Blake Nelson, is a modernized version of the play Othello written by William Shakespeare. Both the film and the play bear striking similarities, although this adaptation of Otello also includes some different characteristics than the original play text. The similarities and differences are distinguished through the modernized plot, cinematic techniques used to illustrate the play text as a tragedy and successfully retaining the tragic structure of the play Othello. The modernized plot has a few similarities and differences from the original play text. In the play Othello, war scenes are performed off stage and are usually occurring during a storm.
William Shakespeare has provided some of the most brilliant plays to ever be performed on the stage. He is also the author of numerous sonnets and poems, but he is best known for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. In this essay I would like to discuss the play and movie, "Romeo and Juliet", and also the movie, Shakespeare in Love.
A love story is a genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love. Although, the basis of Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent are love stories, there are more important themes to these stories than the romance portrayed in these fairytales, which Disney touches on, but Robert Stromberg brings more emphasis to; evil from different perspectives, the act of rape, and the theory that love conquers all.