A Midsummer Nights Dream, by William Shakespeare is a play about love, fantasy, and magic. In a passage in Act I scene i, Hermia has just refused to marry Demetrius, going against her fathers demands. This enrages her father, so her father brings her to Theseus, where the passage begins with Theseus telling Hermia that she must marry Demetrius or become a nun. In this passage, Shakespeare conveys the idea that people are often inconsiderate when reacting to others misfortunes. Shakespeare shows this through his use of stylistic devices, and his characters thoughts, feelings, and reactions.
In this passage, Shakespeare talks a great deal about life using powerful words and phrases such as "Grows, lives, and dies in a single blessedness"(I.i.80.). Shakespeare believes that life is one of these misfortunes. People are often unsympathetic towards others life problems. This is because they are too busy with other things in their own life. If people would just spend some time......
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