Love overcomes many obstacles

Theseus engaged to Hippolyta because he conquered her people, Amazons / won her in the battle

Lysander and Hermia must overcome many obstacles for being together – because Egeus wants her to marry someone
else

Many fairies remaining around the wood, slashing/putting magic love juice into the eyes of humans, causing them to fall
in and out of love.

Mistaken identity – in Shakespeare’s comedies someone runs around in a disguise to mask identity (a lover is tricked
into sleeping with a wrong person by mistake)

Love juice causes Titomia to fall in love with an ‘’ass’’

Light, humorous bone- The play feature fairy magic (love potion ) , silly promks (transform a guy’s head into jackass
performance of a play-within-a-play

The boy is the object over which the Fairy Queen and King fight, he is emblematic of the couple’s domestic power

When Obereon succeeds in taking the boy from Titomia ( by dosing her with magic love juice and forcing to fall in love
)- he strips Titomia of a mother – child type relationship-important to her

Obereon and Titomia fight- dramatization of what happened in upper-closs houses in Shakespeare’s England, where
boys were taken out of their moms care and sent off to school.
Prcuna-Egeus needs Theseus to adjudicate a dispute he is having with …

The love vs transformation reverberate through all levels in play

Love combat with violence , Playshows passion’s conflict

Egeus rigid patriarchal view of the world claches with his daughter’s notion of love and freedom

Egeus acuses Lysander of … with love charms but readers know this is simply Egeus creating a fantastic excuse to justify
his cruel treatment of his daughter

Important role of dance in drama, suggesting that the rhythm of the play’s poetry and movement of the characters in
and out of the scenes have an moderlying dance rhythm

Drama- form of literature meant to be performed on stage by actors

Comedy-type of drama with happy ending thumorous for audience

Themes: love’s difficulty , magic, dreams

Subdivided into: Scene and Acts(a group of scenes)

Troughout the play , female characters are described using metaphor …

contribute to the objectification of female characters

Dramatic irony – Act 3 , scene 2 - Lysander and Demeterius believe they are rivaly / Hermia thinks Helena want to steal
her husband / Helena thinks these 3 plays a cruel joke

But the audience know , what characters doesn’t … misunderstanding was caused by interfering … . The characters
ignorance makes for hilarious comedy

Majority of conflict and resolution comes while the characters are asleep and dreaming

The audience knows something that the characters don’t

Shakespeare’s comedies always ends with one / more …

-the way of restoring social order in the world – Theseus gets … … . Demeter gets hitched Helena , Hermia needs
Lysanda

At the first scene – Hermia argues her dad Egeus about whom she should mary. Egeus is angry about his daughter
disobedience. He wants Theseus to uphold Athemian law wich says daughters have to do what their father say or death.
– Domestic dispute Family drama