Author: Violet

 A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a romantic comedy, written by William Shakespeare around 1595. It’s full of joy, laughing, and love, as well as magical fairies and dreams.  However, there are many complex interplays between the plot and the characters. The play is set in two places and is in Athens and a forest outside Athens. As there are many characters and many scenes in the play, I have found act one scene one particularly intriguing me a lot. From this scene, I’ve discovered love is a mysterious energy that causes individuals to behave in illogical ways.

 In act one, scene 1 of A midsummer night’s dreamTheseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, former Amazon Queen, discuss their upcoming wedding in four days. Egeus, a nobleman, complains to Theseus about his daughter Hermia’s preference for Lysander over Demetrius. Hermia declares that she cannot marry Demetrius and that she would prefer to die than marry anyone other than Lysander. Lysander has found another woman Helena is in love with Demetrius. Theseus said Hermia has to obey her father otherwise her choices are to die or become a nun. Hermia and Lysander decided to run away from Athens. Then Helena walks in, expressing how much she loves Demetrius but her love is not acknowledged. Hermia and Lysander tell their plan to Helena and she tells Demetrius Hermia and Lydsnders plan where they are going just so she can have a chance to see Demetrius. This scene introduces many key characters and sets the stage for the play’s major conflict. When the four lovers entered the woods, the real confusion in the play starts. When Robin Goodfellow, a fairy, employs magic to make Demetrius love Helena again, he accidentally causes Lysander to fall in love with Helena. He attempts to straighten things out, and he succeeds in making Demetrius fall in love with Helena. Both men now love Helena, but neither loves Hermia. Almost everyone is unhappy until Robin sorts out the problem and the four Athenians pair off into couples making everyone happy.

Helena’s character is my favorite in this play because she reflects on the illogical nature of love as she explains her affections for Demetrius, despite the fact that he has treated her horribly.

According to Lysander’s statement, one of a Midsummer night’s Dream “The course of true love never did run smooth,” which indicates one of the major themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s that is the difficulty of love. This significance is exemplified by the imperfect affection between the four young Athenians. Lisander likes Hermia, Hermia likes Lisander, Helena likes Demetrius and Demetrius likes Hermia more than Helima. A typical number imbalance where two men create emotions towards the same woman resulting in one woman having too many suits and the other having too few. The play has a lot of promise for a conventional conclusion, and the story is built on a quest for internal balance in many ways; that is, when the lovers’ tangle resolves into symmetrical pairs, the play will have reached its typical happy finish.

Baldwin’s remarks have a simple beauty that prays for all black people to be free of the residues and arrogance of slavery. One of the great human beings, James Baldwin, reminded his nephew about all the atrocities that black people suffered and continue to bear. James Baldwin stated in the letter that “They are in effect still trapped in a history which they do not understand and until they understand it they cannot be released from it” and it is still true in 2021. To me, Gorge Floyd’s death is a good example of relating this letter by James Baldwin. His death in America sparked a worldwide surge of anti-racism demonstrations. It means black people are still fighting for their equality. Gorge, a 46-year-old parent, was apprehended by Minneapolis police on May 25th, suspect of buying cigarettes using counterfeit money. As MR Floyd was knocked to the ground, a white police officer has observed keeling on his neck. “I can’t breathe,” he sobbed again. For eight minutes and 46 seconds, he was kept down. He stopped moving after six munitions. Many other deaths have echoed with the death of Gorge Floyd’s. Now the world fight for their justice, liberty, and equality because of Gorge Floyd, we all have come together. We are changing the world, we have come out with lots of valuable slogans such as “Black lives matter”, “No justice no peace”, and so on. That is not only for the black people but also I believe these slogans matter for every nation that is still fighting for equality.

Moreover, the article Between the world and me seemed very inspiring to me. This article adds to the effort to educate members of the human race to make the world a better, more courteous, and more equitable place for everyone. It is extremely disgusting that people in history treated one other with less respect and equality because of their skin color, which is wrong and unacceptable.

In the movie, I am not Your Nigro I have become hooked on this statement by James Baldwin that “ you want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my children, on some idealism which you assure my exists in America which I have never seen”. In this sense, what he said, black people have to do something trustworthy to earn someone’s trust. However, everyone trusts a white person without any judgment. In France, a young black guy climbed almost five storey building from the outside without any safety equipment to save a french child. The black person was awarded as a citizen of France. As the person risk his life, everyone started trusting him which in my point of view is not a proper way to judge a person. We shouldn’t doubt any person based on their skin color.