In a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', how would you highlight the difference between the mortal and immortal worlds? Refer particularly to Act 3 scene 1 and 2 and the film.
Title: In a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', how would you highlight the difference between the mortal and immortal worlds? Refer particularly to Act 3 scene 1 and 2 and the film.
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In a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', how would you highlight the difference between the mortal and immortal worlds? Refer particularly to Act 3 scene 1 and 2 and the film.
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1368 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Shakespeare wrote 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for an aristocratic wedding in the gardens of a big country house. The play being performed outside would have made the forest scenes much more believable with the flowers, grassy banks and shrubbery. Women never performed in plays - it was thought an unsuitable job - so female parts were always given to men. This added to the humour, as seen in the film's portrayal of the Mechanicals' performance …showed first 75 words of 1368 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1368 total…law and order, while, in direct contrast, the immortal world and characters reflect dreams, mystery, disorder and magic. I chose four characters to convey this idea - Titania, Bottom, Puck and the Mechanicals (constituting as a single collective character because of the way they seem to work as a team). The 1999 film production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' conveyed the contrast very well and established a very prominent distinction between the immortal and mortal worlds.
