Super Natural Elements In The Midsummer Night's Dr

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Supernatural elements in Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ There are many supernatural beings included among the characters of Shakespeare’s plays. The three distinct categories that usually are used to describe these beings are spirits, ghosts and gods. Between them are not included the fairies, one of the most noticeable and entertaining elements in “A Midsummer night’s dream”, even Shakespeare maybe would include the fairies in the category of gods, due to the fact that during the play they are making the humans get confused thanks to their powers. They do what they want and humans don’t realise that fairies are joking with them. Shakespeare probably changed the conception of the natural world that we had, attributed new features to fairies, and from beginning to end, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is filled with supernatural themes. Titania is the Queen of fairies, Oberon is the King of fairies and the husband of Titania, and finally Puck who is the fairy which due to misunderstanding, complicates all the situation in the woods. The formula of romanticism change in a new comic way. Magic is a wonderful thread that runs through the Midsummer Night’s Dream tissue. Magic is a mythical and supernatural elements of the fairy world (like Cupid’s arrows Starry Night), but also a simpler, more natural power. Each character has its own perspective and experience the magic in a contrary manner. To find the bottom of wonderful dream be magical, when lovers, probably the hardest hit by magic, is completely unaware of it. Magic, the supernatural or unexplained, serves as an aid in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream. For example, since Oberon uses a supernatural flower, and in his description of it to Puck he noted it’s magical function, The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid / Will make a man or woman madly dote / Upon the next live creatures it

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