A Midsummer Nights Dream: Book Report :: A Midsummer Nights Dream, William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeargon is a Athenian comedy. Some of the characters are fairies, kings, queens, and plane get off class bulk. It isapparent what duration period this romance is from, because of virtually of the things thatTheseus, the duke of Athens, and Oberon, the king of the fairies, say in it. iodine of thesesuch quotes from Theseus is, Go, Master of Revels. Stir up the Athenian youth tomerriments, stir up the pert and nimble spirit of mirth, and all of Athens shallcelebrate. Yet an other(a)(prenominal) quote talking about the Athenians is spoken by Oberon, A good-natured Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth. You leave alone know him by theAthenian garments that he wears.In this story the lower class people are called mechanics. Before this storymany people may have thought a mechanic could only be some who worked on carsfor a living. Boy, were they ever wrong. The mechanics in this story are far to dumb toever work on anything. Th ey even manage to turn a Greek tragedy into a comedy,because of their inadequacy of acting skills. One such character is Bottom, a line that he hasto say is suppose to be serious and sad, but he turns it into something grotesque because ofthe way he says and acts it. Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead. I die, die,die, die, die, and yet he does not die for quite some time. Some changes that the characters made through out the play were quiteinteresting. Puck, a kind of evil fairy, plays a trick on his queen Tatania. He changesBottom, a mechanical, into a donkey and makes Tatania fall in madly in love with him. After a little while he decides to allow her see what she was actually in love with and shestarts to scream. Its quite derisory that a fairy could be so evil. In all the other storiesthat are ever read make fairies out to be nice things that grant wishes and such. Whowould ever think that they would play crewel tricks on people worry that. Puck withal putsa typ e of love potion in the eye of Lysander and Demetreuis to make them fall in lovewith Helena instead of Hermia. Which also a evil plan.This book was very interesting to read. There are some very interesting thingsto be learned from this book.