Essay - A Midsummer Night's Dream the Stuff that Dreams are Made...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Stuff that *****s are Made Of:" "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" and "Thirteen Going on Thirty"

Both Shakespeare's play "***** Midsummer's Night's Dream" ***** the director Gary Winick's 2004 film "Thirteen ***** on Thirty" might be classified as romantic comedies, despite the fact that one was authored during the 17th century, and the other ***** the 21st century. "A Midsummer's ***** Dream" dramatizes the various narrative complications ***** ensue when a group of humans in a rom*****ntic triangle accidentally finds *****ir way into the path of a ***** of fairies in a simil*****r war of the sexes. However, in its own fashion, "Thirteen Going on *****" likewise uses the supernatural as a me*****ns of escapism that teachers the viewer. Fantasy ***** what takes ***** viewer out of the realms of the natural does not mean that the lessons ***** are learned are inapplicable to the world outside ***** the s*****ry's frame. Instead, the intervention of the supernatural in the form of fairy dust is used as a kind of heightened, metaphorical realism.

Midsummer Night's *****" begins with the decision of Lysander and Hermia to flee A*****ns, ***** avoid Hermia being compelled by her elderly father to wed Demetrius. Demetrius once paid court to Hermia's old school friend Helena, and Helena still dearly adores Demetrius. *****, Lysander's affections have been swayed to Hermia, and unfortunately for Hermia and Lysander, *****'s father Egeus believes that ***** is a better m*****tch, although ***** insists that his fortunes ***** the same (and just ***** Helena insists she is equally as attractive as Hermia).

Th***** implies at ***** beginning ***** even though the viewer is in the 'real' or conventional *****, there are certain things th***** ***** am*****s in the natural order. Egeus implies that Lys*****er h***** been doing wrong: "This man hath bewitch'd the bosom ***** my child;" he says to King Theseus (I.1). However, ***** change ***** has really occurred is that Demetrius has forsaken poor Helena. Now, rather than a neat quartet of betrothed, instead there are two men in love with the same women.

Helena tells ***** that Hermia and Lysander have eloped, in hopes of winning his love and allegiance. But ***** than ***** grateful, Demetrius spurns her, and the more she loves him, ***** more he spurns *****. The lovers in the woods find themselves in the midst of fairyland, showing that Egeus suspicions were wrong—although there are indeed ***** like Robin Goodfellow, these fairies have ***** charmed ***** to love *****. Rather, the quarrel upsetting the universe is between Titania and Oberon, the fairy queen and king, over a young boy, the child of one ***** Titania's attendants. ***** wants ***** boy for his own coterie, Titania ref***** the ***** king. To assert his masculine authority, he causes her through witchcraft to fall in love ***** an oafish human, Bot*****m, made to see even more absurd with an ass' head on ***** shoulders.

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