Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A Midsummer
Night's Dream
- Transformations
- Emotional changes
- Theseus believes love has
transformed Hippolyta from his
enemy to his love. 'Hippolyta I'd
woo thee with my sword'
- Lysander has used his
charm to change Hermia.
'Turn'd her obedience, which
is due to me to stubborn
harshness'
- Hermia shows love has the
capacity to change the way we
view surroundings. 'That he hath
turned heaven to hell.'
- 'Love can change a person's mind
and judgement drastically'
- Natural world
undergoes
transformations
- Moon waxes and
wanes on. 'This old
moon wanes'
- Night turns into day.
- Physical transformation.
- Puck turns Bottom's head into
an ass. 'What do you see, you
see an ass of a head of your
own do you?'
- Puck transforms his
voice to lead Lysander
and Demetrius around
the wood by mimicking
their voices.
- 'The woods are
established as a region of
metamorphosis' Ceser L
Barber
- Context
- Ovid's Metamorphosis -
Shakespeare's main literary
source
- Supernatural
transformations - Bottom
- Contains story of
Pyramus and
Thisbe.