Essay+Writing

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 * Topic:** (Dreams in a midsummer night’s dream)


 * - Thesis Statement**: One of the prominent themes explored in the Shakespearean play a Midsummer Night’s Dream is the concept of dreams.


 * - Paragraph two** - The play has many elements associated with night and dreams

-supporting evidence/quote: The setting and the inferred effects it has on the characters.

-supporting evidence /quote: References to the moon, “harbinger of dreams”.

-supporting evidence /quote: Quote from Hippolyta: “Four days will quickly steep themselves in night, four days will quickly dream away the time…”


 * - Paragraph Three-** Most prominent characters have “dream” experiences

-supporting evidence /quote: the four young lovers in the forest and their “dreams”.

-supporting evidence /quote: Titania’s “dream” and the fact that she is the only “dreamer” that is aware there may be an element of reality in their experiences that night.

-supporting evidence /quote: Bottom’s “dream” and his reaction (this is an exception to all the other dream experiences). He also is the only character that tries to express his dream to others.


 * - Paragraph Four** – The invisible, possibly shifting line between dreams and reality is often referred to

-supporting evidence /quote: Many characters are clueless to what really happened to them (so are we).

-supporting evidence /quote: During the play, many things are turned upside-down, flipped or distorted from “reasonable bounds:, just like in dreams (the lover’s relationships, for example).

-supporting evidence /quote: Puck’s final statement and how it ties the play to the audience.


 * - Conclusion** (restating the thesis)

It can be said that dreams are what the play a Midsummer Night’s Dream are built on…