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 lower class plurality. It isapparent what time period this story is from, because of some of the things thatTheseus, the duke of Athens, and Oberon, the king of the fairies, assure in it. One of thesesuch quotes from Theseus is, Go, Master of Revels. gyp up the Athenian youth tomerriments, awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth, and all of Athens shallcelebrate. Yet another quote talking about the Athenians is mouth by Oberon, Asweet Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth. You will 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. They even manage to turn a Greek tragedy into a comedy,because of their lack 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 funny 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 and 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 miniature while he decides to let her see what she was actually in love with and shestarts to scream. Its quite amusing 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 like that. Puck also putsa type of love potion in the eyes 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.