Magical Fusion of Love and Authority

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This paper explains how throughout the classic play plots are intertwined between the two settings of the human world and the fairy world. There are distinct similarities in each world, which run parallel to the other. Both love and forms of authority exert power over the lives of humans and fairies. This paper provides an examination of both worlds and their connection to one another, and shows how the relationship between imagination and reason/ art and reality comes to the surface. The imagination of Shakespeare and the audience is magically transformed into a midsummer reality from dream.

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"In Shakespeare's ?A Midsummer Night's Dream,? a connection is made between art and reality through the double settings in the play. The audience maintains consciousness of an invisible world, which parallels the world of reality. Shakespeare creates an opposition between waking and dreaming that is continually enforced and fused together. The world of Theseus's Athens is a world of reason and reality. The enchanted world of the woods outside of Athens is a world of imagination and magic, yet is in many ways similar to its parallel world. By escaping into a different world a new perspective is gained on the world left behind. The double setting in the play highlights connections between art and reality."

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