Personal response to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” – Archie

A Midsummer Night’s Dream was a play written by William Shakespeare. I enjoyed watching the movie of this play, and I would rate it a 7/10. I found that it was easy to follow along with and you understood what was going on in the play at all times, unlike some of the other plays , movies, or stories that we’ve read, where you kind of had to figure out yourself why some things were happening. I found it really funny when Nick Bottom turned into a donkey and it was funny seeing everyones reactions to his transformation. A crucial part of the story which I found was also interesting was the love cycle between Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia and Helena, it made everything more chaotic and added another sense of emotion into the play which a lot of other plays and stories which we have read and watched didn’t do. Something which I did not like was all of this old language and the old expressions which were use. Although the play was easy to follow along with overall, it was still difficult to figure out what certain things meant because they use all these ancient expressions to describe certain things. For example when all 4 lovers were in the mud pit and I think it was Lysander who insulted Helena, he used some weird words which i’ve never heard before to insult her and I was so confused by what he meant. I also like how in the end, Nick Bottom came back from being a Donkey and outside of a window he saw a bunch of glowing flying red dots which he then knew was Tatiana. It made him remember her and all the love he had for her in that crazy experience of his. Nick was definitely my favorite character. Overall, there were just so many emotions in the play, like joy, happiness, anger, and jealousy, which made the play relatable to anyone at least at one point in the play.

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