FREE ESSAY ON MID SUMMER NIGHT DREAM

MID SUMMER NIGHT DREAM

A Mid Summer Nights Dream
True love never runs a smooth coarse. And this is quit evident in a Mid Summer Night's
dream. The young love of two people is far more powerful than one thinks. And at the end
true love will prevail no matter what gets in the way.


  
    
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Hamlet's Tragedy
Hamlet's tragedy is a tragedy of failure-the failure of a man placed in critical
circumstances to deal successfully with those circumstances. In some ways, Hamlet reminds
us of Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Hamlet and Brutus are both good men who live
in trying times; both are intellectual, even philosophical; both men want to do the right
thing; both men intellectualize over what the right thing is; neither man yields to
passion. But here the comparison ends, for though both Brutus and Hamlet reflect at
length over the need to act, Brutus is able immediately to act while Hamlet is not.
Hamlet is stuck thinking too precisely on th' event-. Hamlet's father, the king of
Denmark, has died suddenly. The dead king's brother,Claudius, marries Hamlet's mother and
swiftly assumes the throne, a throne that Hamlet fully expected would be his upon the
death of his father. Hamlet's father's ghost confronts Hamlet and tells him that his
death was not natural, as reported, but instead was murder. Hamlet swears revenge. But
rather than swoop instantly to that revenge, Hamlet pretends to be insane in order to
mask an investigation of the accusation brought by his father's ghost. Why Hamlet puts on
this antic disposition and delays in killing Claudius is the central question of the
play. But Hamlet did not swear to his dead father that he, detective-like, would
investigate. Hamlet swore revenge. And he has more than enough motivation to exact
revenge. Does it not, think thee, stand me now upon- He that hath killed my king, and
whored my mother; Popped in between th' election and my hopes, Thrown out his angle for
my proper life, And with such cozenage-is't not perfect conscience To quit him with this
arm? And is't not to be damned To let this canker of our nature come In further evil?
(Act 5, scene 2 . . . to Horatio) Yet he delays. It is this delay in performing the act
he has sworn to accomplish which leads to Hamlet's death. The poison on the tip of
Laertes' sword is but a metaphor for the poison of procrastination which has been
coursing through Hamlet's system throughout the play. Hamlet's thoughts focus upon death
rather than upon action. His words show an intense longing for death: O that this too too
solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the everlasting had
not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. (Act I, scene 2) In Act 3, Scene 1 Hamlet
restates this theme: To be, or not to be, that is the question- The answer eludes Hamlet
throughout the play, perhaps because it is the wrong question. Hamlet is alive and to be
alive means 'to do,' not merely to be. It is his inability to 'do,' his tendency to
reflect rather than to act which poisons Hamlet's resolve and causes his tragic death.