仲夏夜之梦英文赏析

姓名：邓奥

学号：2011221687

班级：2011级三系一班

Appreciation of A Midsummer Night's Dream

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is one of the most popular Shakespeare's comedy.A lot of people begin to come into contact with the other works of Shakespeare's through it.In recent decades,a lot of psychological analysis masters researh it,because it has an element of a dream.

The comedy tells about a couple lovers named Hermia and Lysander in Athens.Hermia's father disagree that Hermia is together with Lysander.He demands that the duke orders,if Hermia doesn't marry Demetrius,she will be killed.Hermia falls in love with Lysander deeply,on the other hand,Demetrius loves her friend Helena.So she fights againt her father's mind.Hemia and Lysander decide to escape from Athens.Demetrius and Helena follow the couple into the forst.

The fairy king Oberon in the forest want to help Helena get Demetrius's love.He order the Puck put the love water into Demetrius's eyelid when he falls into deep sleeping.While he wakes up and open his eyes,he will fall in love with the woman who he sees firstly.But Puck makes a mistake,he makes a wrong man.The love water droplets in Lysander's eyelid,which makes Lysander fall in love with Helena,and then Puck droplets antidote in Demetrius's eyelid,so Demetrius also fall in love with Helena.The fairy king droplets antidote in Lysander's eyelid.The magic is dispelled.Hermia's father find that Hermia and Demetrius love their own lovers.So he agrees the marriage between Hermia and Lysander.Finally,the two couple lovers hold the wedding on the same day.

The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta.

In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to comply with her father Egeus's wish for her to marry his chosen man, Demetrius. In response, Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian law whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death or lifelong chastity worshipping Diana as a nun. The word in this sense is an anachronism. Hermia and her lover Lysander therefore decide to elope by escaping through the forest at night. Hermia informs her best friend Helena, but Helena has recently been rejected by Demetrius and decides to win back his favor by revealing the plan to him. Demetrius, followed doggedly by Helena, chases Hermia, who, in turn, chases Lysander, from whom she becomes separated.

Meanwhile, Oberon, king of the fairies, and his queen, Titania, arrive in the same forest to attend Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding. Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian page-boy to Oberon for use as his "knight" or "henchman," since the child's mother was one of Titania's worshippers. Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience and recruits the mischievous Puck (also called Hobgoblin and Robin Goodfellow) to help him apply a magical juice from a flower