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A Midsummer's Night Dream: Hidden Themes?

My essay (due this Friday) has to do with comparing two dramas
with similar underlying or possible totally overt hidden themes.
In AMND, I want to discuss how the characters are formulated in
such that their subjective, personal desires and impulses are
fulfilled in the woods, yet the whole issue is AVOIDANCE of
Athens and of their parents and the whole nobility in general.

The issue of avoidance is indirectly pointed to just by the
appearance of the woods as a place to solve problems in a mystical
magical way. Yet I want to show how Shakespeare possible formulated
his characters purposely as to show that "avoidance couldn't even
be avoided" by them, as with evidence of the marriage at the end
in Athens.

If anyone has any suggestions or additions to this somewhat "out-
there" variance on theme, PLEASE HELP!
Thanks,
Jen Franklin

Posted by Jennifer Franklin on April 09, 1997 at 12:01:04

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