What is A midsummer nights dream about?

Answer 1

A Midsummer Nights Dream takes place in Athens, where there are many sharp and unfair laws. Where everything turns upside-down. The text starts in the court room of Theseus (Duke of Athens). A vexatious man named Egeus was having trouble with his daughter, Hermia because Hermia wants to marry Lysander but has to and refuses to marry Demetrius, who Helena loves. A lot of troubled relationships, magic, mischief and power appears in this story. It is a funny comedy that is full of wonder and excitement and enjoyable to read.

Answer 2

What is A Midsummer Night's Dream about?

It's about people and fairies who are magically transformed, particularly by a magical flower that makes people fall in love with the next thing they see. The actual plot is extremely convoluted and far-fetched, but it doesn't matter because the fun is watching the unlikely couples that arise from the action of the flower, and the ways they react (or don't react) to the changed people.

Oh, and the icing on the cake is a goofy play put on with deadly earnestness by a group of amateur actors which, if done right, is very funny.

Another view:The book is about a man refusing to allow his daughter to marry the man she loves so they run away. Then a girl who loves a man who does not love her follows the man she loves into a forest. A fairy comes and puts a potion on the eyes of the man she loves and he falls in love with her, the fairy also puts the potion on the man who loves the girl who he ran away with he then sees the girl who loves a man who doesn't love her and both the men love the girl and not the person they both actually love. They then get the potion taken off their eyes and they all get married to the people that they actually love. Also they only get the potion put on there eyes because the king fairies wife has a child and he thinks that if he puts the potion on the eyes of her she will love this man and forget about the child. She falls for a donkey (who is actually a man but got turned into a donkey) and he loves her back then when she gets the potion off her she tries to make the donkey (man) seem like it was all a dream. Another view:

It is a comedy love story written by William Shakespeare. The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta, and set simultaneously in the woodland, and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon

In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to comply with her father Egeus's wish for her to marry his chosen man, Demetrius. In response, Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian law whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death. However Theseus who does not wish to see this young girl die offers another choice and that is death or lifelong chastity worshipping Diana as a nun. (The word 'nun' in this sense is an anachronism).

Hermia and her lover Lysander therefore decide to elope by escaping through the forest at night. Hermia informs her best friend Helena, but Helena has recently been rejected by Demetrius and decides to win back his favour by revealing the plan to him. Demetrius, followed doggedly by Helena, chases Hermia. Hermia and Lysander, believing themselves safely out of reach, sleep in the woods.

Meanwhile, Oberon, king of the fairies, and his queen, Titania, arrive in the forest outside Athens. Titania tells Oberon she plans to stay there until after attending Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding. Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian page-boy to Oberon for use as his "knight" or "henchman," since the child's mother was one of Titania's worshippers. Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience and recruits the mischievous Puck (also called Hobgobiln and Robin Goodfellow) to help him apply a magical juice from a flower called "love-in-idleness," (aka pansy) which makes the victim fall in love with the first living thing he sees when he awakens. He instructs Puck to retrieve the flower, so that he can make Titania fall in love with some vile creature of the forest. Oberon applies the juice to Titania in order to distract her and force her to give up the page-boy.

Having seen Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, Oberon orders Puck to spread some of the juice on the eyelids of the young Athenian man. Instead, Puck accidentally puts the juice on the eyes of Lysander, who then falls in love with Helena. Oberon sees Demetrius still following Hermia and is enraged. When Demetrius decides to go to sleep, Oberon sends Puck to get Helena while he charms Demetrius' eyes. Due to Puck's errors, both lovers now fight over Helena instead of Hermia. Helena, however, is convinced that her two suitors are mocking her, as neither loved her originally. The four pursue and quarrel with each other most of the night, until they become so enraged that they seek a place to duel each other to the death to settle the quarrel. Oberon orders Puck to keep the lovers from catching up with one another in the forest and to re-charm Lysander for Hermia, to prevent them all from killing each other.

Meanwhile, a band of lower-class labourers ("rude mechanicals", as they are famously described by Puck) have arranged to perform a crude play about Pyramus and Thisbe for Theseus' wedding, and venture into the forest, near Titania's bower, for their rehearsal. Nick Bottom, a stage-struck weaver, is spotted by Puck, who transforms his head into that of an ass (donkey). Titania is awoken by Bottom's singing, and she immediately falls in love with him. She treats him as if he is a nobleman and lavishes attention upon him. While in this state of devotion, she encounters Oberon and casually gives him the Indian boy. Having achieved his goals, Oberon releases Titania and orders Puck to remove the ass's head from Bottom. The magical enchantment is removed from Lysander but is allowed to remain on Demetrius, so that he may reciprocate Helena's love.

The fairies then disappear, and Theseus and Hippolyta arrive on the scene, during an early morning hunt. They wake the lovers and, since Demetrius doesn't love Hermia anymore, Theseus over-rules Egeus's demands and arranges a group wedding. The lovers decide that the night's events must have been a dream. After they all exit, Bottom awakes, and he too decides that he must have experienced a dream "past the wit of man." In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the mechanicals perform "Pyramus and Thisbe." It is ridiculous and badly performed but gives everyone pleasure regardless, and after the mechanicals dance a Bergomask (rustic dance), everyone retires to bed. Finally, as night falls, Oberon and Titania bless the house, its occupants, and the future children of the newlyweds, and Puck delivers a soliloguy to the audience.

Answer 3

4 star-crossed lovers, fairies set in Greece