Advantages: Funnier than other Shakespeare plays. Disadvantages: The language is hard to understand.
...'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare, there are three different sets of characters and I am going to be discussing the theme of love and marriage and how each set is affected by this.
The first set of characters within the play are the lords and ladies which consists of four main characters who are all affected by love in different ways.
To begin with, Demetrius is being forced to wed Hermia by her father, Egeus. Hermia does not like ... ...in their eyes.
Helena, the one who loves Demetrius, is always pestering him to take her back but he doesn't love her so therefore, he intends to marry Hermia. When Hermia and Lysander decide to run away however, all sorts of adventures take place and create a very enjoyable play within the human's story.
However, there are another three characters involved in the human's story and that is Egeus, Theseus and Hippolyta. Egeus is the overprotective ...
Doni07 11.02.2007
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