Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A Midsummer
Night's Dream -
Dreams
- 'Swift as a shadow, short as any
dream...so quick bright things come to
confusion' (Hermia)
- Lovers quarrels happen in the
mystical forest.
- Only time juice goes into their eyes is when
they are asleep so they think it is a dream.
- [Waking] 'what angel
wakes me from my bed?'
(Titania)
- Dream as she is under a spell.
- 'Angel' is ironic as Bottom is
the polar opposite as he has
an ass for a head.
- Language is very feminine.
- 'I have the most rare vision. I have
had a dream past the wit of man to
say what dream it was.' (Bottom)
- Criticism
- '...our interest is in the loveliness,
and gracefulness and
grotesqueness of the dream'
(Elizabeth Latimer)
- 'Most of the characters have an experience which
they find difficult to classify except as a dream, as
means of dismissing it as unreal' (David P Young)
- 'In the world of Shakespeare's
fantasy, dream appears to
represent imagination' ( Dorthea
Kehler)
- Dreams are linked to mysterious
mishaps