Story The Lower Class People example essay topic

A Midsummer Nights Dream Book Review A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare is a Athenian comedy. Some of the characters are fairies, kings, queens, and even lower class people. It is apparent what time period this story is from, because of some of the things that Theseus, the duke of Athens, and Oberon, the king of the fairies, say in it. One of these such quotes from Theseus is", Go, Master of Revels. Stir up the Athenian youth, awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth, and all of Athens shall celebrate".

Yet another quote talking about the Athenians is spoken by Oberon, "A sweet Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth. You will know him by the Athenian garments that he wears". In this story the lower class people are called mechanics. Before this story many people may have thought a mechanic could only be some who worked on cars for a living. Boy, were they ever wrong. The mechanics in this story are far to dumb to ever work on anything.

They even manage to turn a Greek tragedy into a comedy, because of their lack of acting skills. One such character is Bottom, a line that he has to say is suppose to be serious and sad, but he turns it into something funny because of the way he says and acts it". Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead. I die, die, die, die, die", and yet he does not die for quite some time. Some changes that the characters made through out the play were quite interesting.

Puck, a kind of evil fairy, plays a trick on his queen Tatania. He changes Bottom, a mechanical, into a donkey and makes Tatania fall in madly in love with him. After a little while he decides to let her see what she was actually in love with and she starts to scream. It's quite amusing that a fairy could be so evil. In all the other stories that are ever read make fairies out to be nice things that grant wishes and such. Who would ever think that they would play crewel tricks on people like that.

Puck also puts a type of love potion in the eyes of Lysander and Demetreuis to make them fall in love with Helena instead of Her mia. Which also a evil plan. This book was very interesting to read. There are some very interesting things to be learned from this book. For example, there was a Athenian law that said the father could Condemn his daughter to death if she did not do as he said.

He rima, Theseus' daughter, refuses to marry Demterius the man that her father favors, so he says that if she does not obey him that he will kill her. It seems that is a bit ridiculous that some one would even think of doing that if they did not marry some one that they did not even love. It's very wrong to make someone marry a person that they have no feelings for at all.