This drama tells the story of Hermia and Lysander, two lovers in Athens. Hermia's father objected to their being together. He asked the duke to order that if Hermia refused to marry Demetrius, she would be sentenced to death.
Hermia was deeply in love with Lysander, and because Demetrius showed love for her best friend Hai lianna, she would not obey her father's orders. Hermia decided to escape from Athens, while Demetrius, who loved Hermia, and Hai, who was infatuated with Demetrius, followed the lovers into the forest.
In order to help the sea win Demetrius' love, oberon, the elf king in the forest, ordered Parker to drop magic on Demetrius' eyes and face while he was asleep. When he wakes up, he will fall in love with the first person he sees when he opens his eyes. Unexpectedly, due to mistakes, Parker made a mistake, and dropped his love into Lysander's eyes, making Lysander fall in love with Shanghai Lenore.
When oberon learned about this, he quickly fell in love with Demetrius, which made him fall in love with the sea. After that, he poured the antidote into his eyes to remove the magic and let Demetrius continue to be infatuated with the sea. Hermia's father found that Hermia and Demetrius loved each other, so he agreed to the marriage of Hermia and Lysander. Finally, the two lovers got married on the same day.
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Creation background
The play was written in the 1990s in 16, which was the period of Queen Elizabeth's rule in English history. During this period, the political power was relatively consolidated, the society was relatively stable, the capitalist economy developed rapidly, and the British Renaissance and humanism also entered a prosperous stage. The discovery of manuscripts and works of art in ancient Greece and Rome made dull Europe suddenly discover a whole new world.
The beautiful world described by ancient Greece and Rome in which man, God and nature live in harmony and people's unremitting pursuit of secular happiness, people suppressed by the church have a strong desire to break through the spiritual shackles of the Middle Ages and smash all rules and regulations. Renaissance made people begin to realize the value and significance of their own existence, and human rights, humanity and humanity gradually replaced the rule of God.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy that embodies the spirit of Renaissance and humanism. Although the story in the play took place in ancient Greece, the thoughts, feelings and moral standards of the characters were completely based on the real life in Britain at that time.
In the play, Shakespeare enthusiastically depicts the struggle of bourgeois new women for free love and marriage autonomy and against patriarchy, and through the contrast between reality and nature, expresses the humanistic ideal of equality between people and harmony between man and nature.
Hermia is the representative of new bourgeois women in Shakespeare's works. Her brave struggle against patriarchy expressed the new bourgeoisie's rethinking of women's status and rights. The medieval church had a great influence on shaping the value orientation of society, and the social status of women was no exception.
The church claims that women are descendants of Eve, which will only tempt men to fall. This concept dominated throughout the Middle Ages. After Henry VIII succeeded to the throne, the Reformation began, and the reformers questioned the faith of the Roman church.
1534, Henry VIII declared himself the supreme commander of the Church of England. Since then, the church's rule over Britain has come to an end, and the unfair attitude of the church towards women has been greatly shaken.
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