What is the significance of the setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Answer 1

It lays out the setting of the story and also the plot. Each word has a specific meaning that either symbolizes or connects to a major theme in the story line. Also the title sets the tone for a magical atmosphere with the use of words like "night" and "dream." It conjures up pictures of supernatural beings and magic. The significance of the title is hidden in the very words midsummer, night and dream.

Answer 2

The setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which takes place in a mythical forest, plays a significant role in the play's themes of magic, transformation, and the blurred boundaries between reality and illusion. The forest symbolizes a place of enchantment and unpredictability, where characters' desires and emotions are heightened, leading to moments of chaos and comedy. Additionally, the setting allows for the interplay between the natural world and the supernatural realm of the fairies, highlighting the contrast between the human and magical domains.

Answer 3

Because it takes place on Midsummer Night, the shortest night of the year.

Also, all the four lovers (hermia, lysander, demetrius, and helena) think they are dreaming when they wake up and love eachother. Bottom also beleives he was dreaming about having a donkey head.

Answer 4

Magic is everywhere in this play, it brings transformation, illusion, deception, romance, comedy, farse and confusion (and more). There are loads of times you see magic at work throughout the play. You see it in the action (find example of where characters do things to each other... like when puck or bottom, I forget, is turned into a donkey creature?) in the characters themselves (puck is some sort of Sprite or fairy - like Aeiral from The Tempest I think) and it's in the language too. There's lots of talk about dreams and fantasies (and sex and desire - kindda magical in a way) and spirits/pixies/fairies playing tricks.

Find lots of examples of the above and explain how they're about magic, you should be fine.

Answer 5

None. Shakespeare imported the characters of Theseus and Hippolyta from Greek legend, and so set the play, nominally, in Athens. But it is irrelevant; the weaver isn't called Bottomopolous and he doesn't drink ouzo and eat souvlaki. He has a very English name and acts just like an Englishman. There are no forests outside of the real Athens. "Duke" is an Italian, not a Greek title. Oberon and Titania are not from Greek mythology, and neither is Puck. Essentially, the "Athens" of the play could be anywhere and it wouldn't make the slightest difference.

However, if your question is asking about the fact that most of the action of the play is set in a forest, at night, at new moon, at the summer solstice, that is a different story. All of those factors mean that the world where the fairies reign is a world of magic, where the ordinary rules no longer apply, where love can come and go at the squeeze of a flower. It is contrasted with the world of the town, where laws are laws no matter how stupid, because that's "rational".

Answer 6

The play takes place on a midsummer's night and as the whole affair is rather difficult for humans to believe or comprehend, the leading male fairy, Oberon, gives to his "servant," puck, an elixir to rub on the eyes of the feuding friends to make them think it was all a dream.

Answer 7

Because William Shakespeare was both a very early, and a very good writer in the English language, his influence on English literature is profound. "A Midsummer's Night Dream" is a particularly entertaining play, with amusing fantasy elements, and it is not as grim and tragic as many other plays by Shakespeare.

Answer 8

Shakespeare, we assume, gave it its title. The play is full of allusions to the story being "no more yielding, but a dream". The lovers and Bottom remember their night in the forest as a dream. And why midsummer? It's the shortest and warmest night of the year, and a night traditionally associated with magic.

Answer 9

1. The play takes place in summer.

2. The play takes place at night.

3. The play is a fantasy.