Isherwood's article about Midsummer Night's Dream is a very deep and thoughtful article. He has many valid points. Throughout the article, he continues to talk about how the negativity in the play overbears the love and humor. He uses quotes like "I noticed, among other things, how variations on the word “hate” recurs with startling frequency". This shows how he focuses and sees more hate than love. Theseus and Hippolyta are preparing for their wedding and there are many happy quotes during this scene. Isherwood chooses to write about the quote where Theseus states, "Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword, and won thy love by doing thee injuries". This is the most negative quote in the scene and Isherwood chooses it. The love and humor
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In the first scene, Theseus is planning a wedding for him and Hippolyta. This is an example of love from some of the first lines in the play. One of the first examples of humor in the play is when bottom and his group of guys are planning the play. Bottom thinks he is a good actor, but is proven wrong. He offers to play almost all of the roles in the play until Quince calls him off. "Let me play the lion too. I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me." He wants to play the main character and multiple characters. This is an example of humor because Bottom is portrayed as a below average actor. There is love and humor in almost every scene. Another example of love and humor is when Puck puts the love juice into Titania's eyes. It is a prank to make her fall in love with a ridiculous creature. He also changes Bottom's head into an ass head. Titania falls in love with an ass head and Puck and Oberon are overjoyed when they find out. This was a prank on Titania to get the Indian boy back so that is why it shows humor and …show more content…
Puck is a jokester. He jests to Oberon and makes him smile. Without the humor that puck displays throughout the play, he would be a lifeless character, with very little meaning in the play. "Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me; then slip I from her bum, down topples she" (Shakespeare 2.1.54-55). This helps us deepen our understanding of Puck because it shows us how he does these pranks for fun and to impress Oberon. He shape-shifts into a stool and pulls himself out from under her bum. Puck also helps push the theme of love throughout the play. He has to get the love flower for Oberon to put in Titania's eyes. He is causing love which is the huge theme in the book. Puck also is assigned to put the juice into Demetrius's eyes but messes up and causes the love "square" to flip completely. This is a big moment in the play and it is all because of Puck. In conclusion, Isherwood wrote a very thoughtful article reacting to Midsummer Night's Dream. He talked about some very real events during the play, but focused too much on the negativity throughout the play. The love and humor overpowers the negativity and hate in Midsummer Night's Dream because it is one of the main themes of the play, it is always talked about from the beginning of the play, and deepens our understanding of many characters, like
In the first scene, Theseus is planning a wedding for him and Hippolyta. This is an example of love from some of the first lines in the play. One of the first examples of humor in the play is when bottom and his group of guys are planning the play. Bottom thinks he is a good actor, but is proven wrong. He offers to play almost all of the roles in the play until Quince calls him off. "Let me play the lion too. I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me." He wants to play the main character and multiple characters. This is an example of humor because Bottom is portrayed as a below average actor. There is love and humor in almost every scene. Another example of love and humor is when Puck puts the love juice into Titania's eyes. It is a prank to make her fall in love with a ridiculous creature. He also changes Bottom's head into an ass head. Titania falls in love with an ass head and Puck and Oberon are overjoyed when they find out. This was a prank on Titania to get the Indian boy back so that is why it shows humor and …show more content…
Puck is a jokester. He jests to Oberon and makes him smile. Without the humor that puck displays throughout the play, he would be a lifeless character, with very little meaning in the play. "Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me; then slip I from her bum, down topples she" (Shakespeare 2.1.54-55). This helps us deepen our understanding of Puck because it shows us how he does these pranks for fun and to impress Oberon. He shape-shifts into a stool and pulls himself out from under her bum. Puck also helps push the theme of love throughout the play. He has to get the love flower for Oberon to put in Titania's eyes. He is causing love which is the huge theme in the book. Puck also is assigned to put the juice into Demetrius's eyes but messes up and causes the love "square" to flip completely. This is a big moment in the play and it is all because of Puck. In conclusion, Isherwood wrote a very thoughtful article reacting to Midsummer Night's Dream. He talked about some very real events during the play, but focused too much on the negativity throughout the play. The love and humor overpowers the negativity and hate in Midsummer Night's Dream because it is one of the main themes of the play, it is always talked about from the beginning of the play, and deepens our understanding of many characters, like