Similarities Between Oedipus And A Midsummer Night's Dream

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The theatrical search of drama and freewill According to Webster’s Dictionary Freewill is: “the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.” In the theatrical conventions of Drama and freewill that each character portrays within one’s own choice of state. In Oedipus the King and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the choice of freewill is a dramatic chase to discover one’s own fate. In each play, free will is shaped by some supernatural entity to allow for the dramatic resolution, weather it be by parents, Gods, or fairies. The similar constituent elements of literature that can be found in both of these plays are peripeteia, aside and fate. These three attributes are three that lead to the overlying …show more content…

Both of these plays hold a similar constituent elements of literature that are brought about by drama and freewill. The element that can be found in both of these plays are peripeteia, aside and fate. Peripetia is an element in the story that shows dram and free will through the turning point where the characters in both plays take their choice of a dramatic freewill seen after the turning point in each play. Whereas, the aside in each play is the character that reveals something about the plot that goes back to the freewill of love that all of the characters search for, such as the Gods and Puck. Finally the third attribute used to show drama and freewill is fate. Fate is the strongest seen attribute in the play. In both plays audiences see a character or characters that take the dramatic path of freewill to find or avoid their fate. Through these constituent elements of literature that are brought about by drama and freewill audience everywhere have a chance to witness, read, and understand the dramatic chase that these characters sought out to come to know what the end truly

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