A midsummer night's dream

Friend or Fairy? A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the best of Shakespeare’s early comedies. It is an unrealistic fantasy concerning lovers, fairies and royalty. Its action centers around four lovers’ plights brought about by the fantasy world in which they enter. All through this play, there is a supernatural force that changes the lives of all that come in its path. However, the audience naturally questions whether this supernatural force is real, or …

…the potion into Lysander’s eyes thinking he is Demetrius. The fact is that the fantasy world of the fairies is a world full of jealousy, evil and chaos. This is brought about by many of the spirits that inhabit this fairy kingdom. Puck, the four lovers and Oberon and his lady clearly illustrate to the audience that the fantasy world is very similar to the factual world, a world full of disorder and disturbance.