Humor in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A midsummer Night’s Dream is an extraordinary play written by Shakespeare. The Santa Monica College performed this wonderful play in it campus this April. As an assignment of my English class, I had the opportunity to attend to the play on April 19. A Midsummer Night’s dream is a humoristic play mainly composed of comedy. The play contained a variety of funny sections; unfortunately, I had to read the book to understand and recognized some the funny parts of the play. Since, it was difficult for me to recognize the jokes just by watching the play.
One the funniest part of this play seems to be when Puck, the swindler, keeps mixing up the people who he is assigned to put the love juice on. Even when he did put the love juice into the right people's eyes, they still fell in love with the wrong people sometimes. The first example of this mistake of Puck's is where he puts the love juice in Lysander's eyes, mistaking him for Demetrius. Oberon tells Puck to put the love juice in the eyes of an Athenian man, Demetrius, and to make sure that the first thing he sees after this is the woman whom he hates, but who loves him so much, Helena. Puck ends up finding Lysander and Hermia, lovers, sleeping on the forest floor. He puts the love juice in Lysander's eyes and leaves. Then along come Helena and Demetrius to this spot. They are still arguing and Demetrius leaves her with the sleeping Lysander and Hermia. Helena notices them there and tries to wake Lysander. Lysander wakes and the first thing he sees is Helena. "And run through fire for thy sweat sake. Transparent Helena! Nature shows art that through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.” This is what Demetrius says to Helena when he sees her. He has fallen in love with her. This is where the comedy of this love mix up begins. Now Helena is confused and thinks that Lysander is playing a trick on her so she runs away. This is a most particularly funny part of the play and these mix ups...