Night Activities And Sleep Runs - 1570 Words

The audience is left in as much ambiguity as felt throughout the performance, appropriately ending the play in a puzzling state of confusion. The theme of night activities and sleep-runs are found throughout the play. The majority of the plot takes place at night, even the rehearsal for the farcical play. All the mishaps occur during the midnight hours and the confusion is not cleared up until the next morning when the four lovers are discovered. This setting of night allows for the audience to drift into the idea that the entire show very well could have been a fantastical dream. Therefore, there is no other way for Shakespeare to end this crazy entanglement of lovers, mythological beings, fairies, and artisans but to explain it as a†¦show more content†¦Therefore we as the audience ask ourselves, is love controlled by human beings who love one another or is love controlled by a higher power? There are many people who believe that a higher power has control over love. An example of a higher power would be a cupid, a flying angel-type creature who is supposed to shoot arrows at people to make them fall in love. There are other people who reject the idea that a higher power controls love and that the people who experience love can control it. In the play, A Midsummer Night s Dream, several examples of love s association with a higher power are presented. With the use of examples from the above novel, I will try to pre sent the audience that love is associated with a higher power. Examples like: Thesius arranging a marriage between himself and Hippolyta, Egeus choosing who Hermia should marry and the fairies who have the ability to control love in the Enchanted Forest. This is where most of the action in the play takes place, in the forest which is controlled by the mystic creatures, fairies, which have the power to make humans fall in love with people that they don t really know or care about. In the story, the supreme ruler of Athens, Thesius ends up marrying Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazon. However, during the whole story, Hippolyta never thoroughly discusses her feelings and ideas about the marriage. She acts as if she has no choice but to marry