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

A Midsummer Nights fancyThe Perspective of Theseus In his play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespe ar clearly establishes the feelings of Theseus with respect to acknowledge and reason. Theseus distrusts the nature of love and its effect on people as he states in the following passage I never may desire these antic fables or these f gossamer toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such(prenominal) shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet ar of imagination wholly compact. One sees more devils than vast hell contribute 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 promised land 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 satis fying imagination That, if it would but 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 doubt 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 first divide seems to be your first point instead of your introduction. Your first sentence too 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 a nd then for your thesis statement you need to slant 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 drawn-out passages from a Shakespearean play or a poem, you should keep the air formation. Begin a new line when the author of the passage begins a new line.