A midsummer nights dream
Title: A midsummer nights dream
Category: Literature / English | Words: 624 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
A midsummer nights dream
The Fairies are only in our Dreams
William Shakespeare seems to have created A Midsummer Night's Dream from his own childhood. In Shakespeare's time it was believed that fairies and little people did exist. Fairies were said to be the reason why the unexplained happened. An unexplained bottle of milk toppling over, or a bucket in the stables was said to be the work of fairies, who avoided human interaction. Puck is the audience’s
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version is in a sense like the character Puck; it keeps the play rolling which otherwise would be less interesting without the option.
Finally, the director uses Puck as the final dramatic convention where a character speaks alone on stage to the audience. This serves to connect the dreams within the play to the dream of the play itself, and thus to directly involve the audience in an implicit dialogue over the nature of reality.
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