A Midsummer Night’s Dream Essay: The Perspective of Theseus

A Midsummer Nights DreamThe Perspective of Theseus In his play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare clearly establishes the feelings of Theseus with respect to love and reason. Theseus distrusts the nature of love and its effect on people as he states in the following passage I never may believe these antic fables or these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of resourcefulness all compact. One sees more devils than vast infernal region can hold That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic Sees Helens beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poets eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from paradise to earth, from earth to heaven And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poets pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination That, if it would entirely apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear (V, i, 3-22) Theseus expresses his mistrust in the verisimilitude of the lovers recount of their night in the forest. He says that he has no faith in the ravings of lovers or poets, as they are as likely as madmen are to be divorced from reason. Coming, as it does, after the resolution of the lovers dilemma, this monologue serves to dismiss most of the play a hallucinatory imaginings. Theseus is the voice of reason and authority, but he bows ... ...rs (V, I, 28-30 Instead of Go and fresh days of love accompany your hearts (V, I, 28-30) 2. Your freshman paragraph seems to be your first point instead of your introduction. Your first sentence also appears to be your thesis statement. Your introduction should incorporate all of the points of your paper. You are introducing all of them. So, lengthen your introduction and then for yo ur thesis statement you destiny to list all of the points that you discuss. In his play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare clearly establishes the feelings of Theseus with respect to love, reason. 3. When quoting lengthy passages from a Shakespearean play or a poem, you should keep the course of action formation. Begin a new line when the author of the passage begins a new line.