仲夏夜之梦英文读后感范文

A Midsummer Nights Dream (仲夏夜之梦) is a romantic comedy by WilliamShakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays theadventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateuractors in a moonlit forest, and their interactions with the fairieswho inhabit it and Duke of the Athenians. The play is one ofShakespeares most popular and is widely performed across play features three interlocking plots, connected by acelebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and theAmazonian queen the opening scene, Hermia refuses to comply with her fatherEgeuss wish for her to marry his chosen man, Demetrius. Inresponse, Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian lawwhereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, orelse face death or lifelong chastity worshipping Diana as a word in this sense is an anachronism. Hermia and her loverLysander therefore decide to elope by escaping through the forestat night. Hermia informs her best friend Helena, but Helena hasrecently been rejected by Demetrius and decides to win back hisfavor by revealing the plan to him. Demetrius, followed doggedly byHelena, chases Hermia, who, in turn, chases Lysander, from whom shebecomes while, Oberon, king of the fairies, and his queen, Titania,arrive in the same forest to attend Theseus and Hippolytaswedding. Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refusesto give her Indian page-boy to Oberon for use as his knight orhenchman, since the childs mother was one of Titaniasworshippers. Oberon seeks to punish Titanias disobedience andrecruits the mischievous Puck (also called Hobgoblin and RobinGoodfellow) to help him apply a magical juice from a flower calledlove-in-idleness, which makes the victim fall in love with thefirst living thing he sees when he awakens. Oberon applies thejuice to Titania in order to distract her and force her to give upthe ng seen Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, Oberon orders Puckto spread some of the juice on the eyelids of the young Athenianman. Instead, Puck puts the juice on the eyes of Lysander, who thenfalls in love with Helena. When Oberon finds this out, he makesPuck apply the juice to Demetrius. Due to Pucks errors, Hermiastwo lovers temporarily turn against her in favor of Helena. Helena,however, is convinced that her two suitors are mocking her, asneither loved her originally. The four pursue and quarrel with eachother all night, losing themselves in the dark and in the maze oftheir romantic while, a band of rude mechanicals (lower-class labourers)have arranged to perform a crude play about Pyramus and Thisbe forTheseus wedding, and venture into the forest, near Titaniasbower, for their rehearsal. Nick Bottom, a stage-struck weaver, isspotted by Puck, who transforms his head into that of an ass(donkey). Titania is awoken by Bottoms singing, and sheimmediately falls in love with him. She treats him as if he is anobleman and lavishes attention upon him. While in this state ofdevotion, she encounters Oberon and casually gives him the ng achieved his goals, Oberon releases Titania and orders Puckto remove the asss head from Bottom. The magical enchantment isremoved from Lysander but is allowed to remain on Demetrius, sothat he may reciprocate Helenas love. The fairies then disappear,and Theseus and Hippolyta arrive on the scene, during an earlymorning hunt. They wake the lovers and, since Demetrius doesntlove Hermia anymore, Theseus over-rules Egeuss demands andarranges a group wedding. The lovers decide that the nights eventsmust have been a dream. After they all exit, Bottom awakes, and hetoo decides that he must have experienced a dream past the wit Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the mechanicalsperform Pyramus and Thisbe. It is ridiculous and badly performedbut gives everyone pleasure regardless, and after the mechanicalsdance 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 anepilogue to the audience asking for applause