One of the functions of literature is to force the reader to question the things he has taken for granted; another is to heighten his sensitivity to the complexities of life and individuals. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream fulfills both functions masterfully.
Shakespeare's play creates an intricate juxtaposition of plot and characters that reduces even the careful reader to a state of confusion. The playwright's use of plot devices such as having characters drop the juice of a magic flower into peoples' eyes to make them fall in love is artistic license intended to make a major point(things are not always as they appear to be. Shakespeare leads the reader in so many directions with so many charac
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Anton Chekhov and A Marriage Proposal.... The idea expressed by Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream that "the course of true love never .... "A Marriage Proposal." In Great Writing, Harvey S. Wiener and .... (1127 5 )
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