čtvrtek 29. března 2012

Ok are you thinking what this play wants to tell us ?? I will try it briefly explain to you ... The play show us many view and opinions to the one thing, for example on love or also on concrete thing. the book is not giving us any advice as was normal in Ancient plays.... they are do not tell us which opinion is good or bad ... but as I sad for third time the big importance is on the individual thinking of people. It is an excellent renesance comedy of changes and making things different also about how it is hard to be good, how it is nice to be an actor. How it is magic be in love and be love of anybody. It has a three plot line ( lovers, actors and goods in little war). Instead of tragicall and magical situations there is a lot of a humor of every branch. Using language of nobles but also of workers  there is a contrast between the language both of them, between the dream and reallity and theatre play,feeling and sence, chaos and line. we can also watch on this as a big magical way to celebrate the Midsummer Night when the world will be shake in base to have stronger position. 









Ok....are you curious what will happend there ??? I am !!! but it is hard to say because the characters are really hard readable...soo maybe Hermie will stay with Lysander or not ... what we know now the comlicated plot whe two guys love one girl. The father of the girl do not want to give her to Lysandr and he rather will saw her dead then with Lysandr.Another girl Helena love guy but he does not ... This is one sort of a problems and it can not be easy so with this are mixed problems of two goods. Yes I know ... there are many things to remember who is who and who has problem with who ... But stay calm this is only 1/3 of book. If you will survive till end you can say that you are so good :) for example young elf that is helper of Oberon and makes all the troubles is important person. Imagine that withnout himthere is no problem with changing the partners and lovers. But this is the person who gives the book juice. Without him will be boring story about father that do not want to give her doughter to her boyfriend. It is my opinion so you can watch on this different way, for example for you is the person who gives the juice the Oberon or Hermie. All the time the same problem .... it is on people how they feel it :) isn´t it true ? :) 
As we now the play takes place in the period of renesance. During this enesance period were found new things... for example antropocentrism which contain to put stress on human as a person and the life. Individualism is another one and is about making person more complicated. The main thing is the comeback to the nature which was inspired by Antique. Second one is using problems from everyday life. All of those we can find in this play. For example both of the story is in the forest and there are magical things like nymphs atc. Soo this is a example of using nature elements. The plot is about love, and this belong to the everyday life in my opinion. And the character Theseus is good example of individualism because he want to solve the problems by different way. So he has think about himself and make desicions to be like this.
So in general A Midsummer Night Dream is a typical play belongs to Renesance period.
Ok lets put a question .... Can this story by relate to todays world ?? can be relevant ???

 From one side it is impossible to associate this play with todays world, maybe with children world. But personally I do not know person that saw a nymphs or elphs in last few weeks. Also I cant imagine that can take plays in forest.... I do not know any forest like this in real life ( yes we have but they are demage or destroy but people that want money and money and nothing else) and I cant imagine in this period to stay in forest during night ... I will be really scared that someone can stole me or hunt me :) ... ok I know i have big imagination...lets go back to plot....So we can not put it into real life because of this mysterious things.
As I sad the Renesance is about individualism and put stress on individual thinking ( for example when Hermie decided to leave with Lysander). And in our quick period is this very important .... we do not have enought time for everything we should be ready in few moments and withnout individual thinking that was found many years ago we will be lost in our time.people are different, good, better, bad... this will be same in every age. Another thing is the love plot ... problems with love has averyone who I know but as I sa before we do not have time to deal with it like in Shakespeare book.
Soo from one view it can not be relevant but when we look at it detaily we can find many things. It is only about the person that it is reading. Everything is about the person.


Hi everybody, in my first article you can found who was W. Shakespeare and a bit of informations about the play. And now you will learn something about the characters in detail. Soo enjoy my article and I hope you will be a bit smarter when this will be done:) ... We can say that play is a bit more complicated well ... very complicated ...we found there a lot of names and characters that make me confused because I never know who is who ... OK never mind maybe you are better than me on this. Well the main characters are Hermie - very pretty young woman, she is also impulsive, courageous and also self-confident, her father is Eugeus, she loves Lysandr but also Demetrius wants her heart, but unfortunatelly he want be with Lysandr... why ? you will see:)But she can be
a bit bad and unfriendly after things which happend.


 Lysander - the man that loves Hermie, he has an great idea to go away from Athens. His character is faithfull and courageous. If you fill read the book you can find a small change from faithfull person to less faithfull.... but this is because of big mistake so do not make bad opinion about him :) we should have more pairs like Lysander and Hermie are :)
Helena - pretty and young as well as Hermie is, she unfortunatelly he loves Demetrius ( personally experience with boy like Demetrius but this belong to another blogmaybe :) .. )She doesn´t have enought self-respect she thinks that is not as pretty as Hermie. Under the weight of love to Demetrius make crazy things. All the time she is pursue him in hope that Demetrius will love her also. She is blind because of love.


 Demetrius - man that Hermies father wants to have marriage with. He is not as gentleman as Lysander is. Making fun of Helena. He wants Hermie unconditionally, does not take care what Hermie wants he can see only him so we can tell Demetrie is very selfish, egoistic man.
Theseus - the head of Athens. His character is one of the most realistic person in this play, showing the majority and wisdom. He want to solve the problems by nice way and do not want to be bad. And I can not forget to say that he loves Hipolyta.


 Titanie - the head of the nymphs. We can found there a contrast between Greek goddness of chastity and obscene scenes with the "donkey". She is all the time making fun of Oberon and she is in we can say small war with him.  
Oberon - The head of the nymphs, arguing with Titanie, but he is not bad person. He wants to help sad Helena but make a problem for Hermia. His character is projection of a higher power in nature.


 Puk - Person that is all the time making fun af something, manipulate with others destiny and he is selfish ... As a person he is not bad but make a lots of problems.
Are you ok or a bit confused as I was when i was reading this book for first time ... ok I understand i will make a sumarize ..... in general the main problem is that Lysander and Demetrius both loves Hermie, but Hermie loves only Lysander another problem is that Hermies father wants to have Demetrius as Hermies husband. They go out from Athens and in forest they mixed to another problem between Titanie and Oberon. But as it is normal in this period the end of the story is happy. Also i can not forgot to say that for the story are very important the charecters because they make the play... the play is based on how people react in different situations, on their personality.
William is showing to us how people can be and how people from different classes are.  in summarize this play is about people and their personality.



středa 28. března 2012

Hello my quests !!!

Hello dear blogers, welcome to my blog which is focused on the play A Midsummer Night's Dream written by popullar author William Shakespeare. You may know him at least from the school and because of him famous sentence from another play Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare born 1564 and he was an important English poet and dramatist and his plays were translated to many other languages than english.There are some sources that under name Shakespeare was also different author than him. So autorship of some his plays is not absolute. William has a unique imagination, to his character he put everyday problems so he is near people they can understand him. He also wrote many poems but most of them were for gentlemans... lucky guys:)
A Midsummer Night´s Dream is comedy and was written between years 1590 and 1596 we do not know exactly when. Play is situated into Ancient Athens but it is guide his born land, popular myth and superstitions. Shakespeare put together two totally different classes, the class of the nobles, rich people, mysterious world of nymph and the hard word of workman which was not normal for his period. We can also find the characteristics of the people also very big progress.Whole play goes with a optimistic humor which consider to the Renaissance. In this play two old traditions were put together and it was a Midsummer Day which is celebrated on 24.6. and the 1st May ( as we know 1st May is love time).