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This 4 page paper discusses the role of mistaken idenity in Shakespeare's works: Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night's Dream. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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these plays nearly everyone is mistaken at one time or another for someone that he or she is not. Love takes a beating and proves how difficult affairs of the
heart can truly be. To that end, then, the role of mistaken identity plays a significant part in furthering this theme. There is mistaken identity aplenty in A Midsummer
Nights Dream. The various facets of love are examined and exposed for the foolishness that it inspires. Triangles, unrequited love, magic potions, and various courtship rituals are shown to be
rather ridiculous. Several messages seem to stem from this exposition in Midsummer Nights Dream, then. First, it seems to be saying that the pursuit of love is a foolish endeavor
that only leaves the pursuer out of breath. Secondly, it seems to be stating that lovers never reveal themselves totally to their chosen object of affection, especially early on in
the relationship, as they wish to keep up the pretense of grandeur. Lastly, of course, is the fact that in this presentation of a false self many of the characters
end up miserable as a result of their deception and self-deceptions. "We cannot fight for love, as men may do;/ We should be wooed and were not made to woo./
Ill follow thee and make a heaven of hell,/ to die upon the hand I love so well" (Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 1, lines 241-244). What these mix ups
in Midsummer Nights Dream indicates is that the emotion of human love is capable of producing extreme affects on otherwise rational and capable people, both male and female. Love is
a game that is never fully played out as indicated by the intended wedding at the beginning of the story which never takes place. The plot of Twelfth Night settles
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