Plot Analysis of 3 Shakespearean Plays

The fact that A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy may allow a willing suspension of disbelief with regard to plot, character, and setting. As Brown, et al., suggest, the young Athenian lovers of the play make very good Elizabethans and Shakespeare never intended that they should be mistaken for ancient Greeks. On the other hand, it may be difficult for the modern reader to become attuned to the fact that the play is structured around such a theme as defiance of parental authority. This has been referred to as the play's "ugly plot."

Right at the beginning, it's an ugly situation. Hermia's father, Egeus, comes to the ruler of Athens and he says, in effect: "My daughter wants to marry a fellow I don't want her to marry and unless she agrees not to marry him, I summon you as the Chief Executive of Athens to enforce the law and have her killed." . . . I could imagine this st

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of the conspirators leads to civil war and finally to the accession of Octavius. All this is the stuff of melodrama and action-adventure stories, amplified by the growing sense of guilt that dominates Brutus's life. Meanwhile, however, the play abounds with dreams and portents, and the dramatic function of the supernatural seems to provide the plot with cosmic significance. Caesar's wife has a premonition of his death, which he dismisses. But later, he eagerly takes in Decius's specious interpretation of Calpurnia's dream: This dream is all amiss interpreted; It was a vision fair and fortunate: Your statue spouting blood in many pipes, In which so many smiling Romans bathed, Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck Reviving blood, and that great men shall press For tinctures, stains, relics and cognizance. This by Calpurnia's dream is signified (II.i). One way of looking at this passage is that Shakespeare is deliberately showing that Caesar is just as fatuous, ambitious, and superstitious as the next Roman. But the supernatural is as central to Shakespeare's narrative strategy in Julius Caesar as it is a feature of Roman experience, not only because Calpurnia's fears are confirmed by the other characters' actions but also b
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