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This 5 page paper discusses some of the imagery in Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and how the images support the themes of the play. Bibliography list 4 sources.
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This paper considers some of the imagery in the play, and how those images support the themes and motifs that Shakespeare explores. Discussion The play is one of the most
poetic in the Shakespearean canon; its also very rich in imagery, much of it connected with the natural world. This language is usually given to the fairies, in particular Oberon
and Titania. For instance, Titania has a long speech in Act II in which she describes the way in which Oberon keeps interrupting her and her court: within the space
of 20 lines, she uses the words "spring," "hill," "dale," "forest," "mead," "rushy brook," "sea," "whistling wind," "contagious fogs," "pelting river," "ox," "green corn," "drowned field" and "flock" (II.i.81-97).
She says that the wind, annoyed with Oberon as well, have whipped up rivers and drowned the fields, leaving humans unhappy. Her speech is delivered to Oberon as the
two argue; her use of natural imagery closely connects both of them to nature, of which they are a part. This quarrelsome supernatural couple is set in opposition to the
"real" couple, Theseus and Hippolyta, who are to be married in Athens. Titanias speech helps to underscore one of the plays main themes, the juxtaposition of the two worlds: that
of humanity and that of the fairies. They exist side by side by do not interact; in fact, humans are largely ignorant of the existence of the other and when
they do meet, its often to human disadvantage. After telling Oberon off, Titania and her attendance leave the stage to Oberon and Puck, at which time the former gives one
of the loveliest speeches in the play. He asks Puck if he remembers when Oberon "... sat upon a promontory, / And heard a mermaid on a dolphins back /
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