A Midsummer Night's Dream - Dreams

'Swift as a shadow, short as any dream...so quick bright things come to confusion' (Hermia)
1. Lovers quarrels happen in the mystical forest.
2. 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)
1. Dream as she is under a spell.
2. 'Angel' is ironic as Bottom is the polar opposite as he has an ass for a head.
3. 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
1. '...our interest is in the loveliness, and gracefulness and grotesqueness of the dream' (Elizabeth Latimer)
2. '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)
3. 'In the world of Shakespeare's fantasy, dream appears to represent imagination' ( Dorthea Kehler)
Dreams are linked to mysterious mishaps

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