Mid Summer

Throughout history literature has changed into many different forms and styles, it has also stayed the same in many different ways, literary techniques and elements are key to a good piece of writing, a perfect example that shows us just this is in, A Midsummer Nights Dream, where we will further explore the different literary elements that were used most notably the plot. The plot of a story lays out the foundation and the background for the entire play to come, we’ll compare and contrast this element and look at the different sub elements which are produced. We will define similarities and difference in these elements form both the play o the film. Taking a look at things such as climax, play incidents, and the conflict will all give us a better understanding of how it affects the similarities and difference of the film versus the play.

The two locations of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are essential to the development of the plot; although their presentation relies wholly on the characters we meet there, their adventures and their descriptions of these places. The main Plot of A Midsummer Nights Dream is a complex jumble that involves two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romantic cross-purposes are complicated By their entrance into the play's fairyland woods where the King and Queen of the Fairies (Oberon and Titania) reside and the folk character of Puck or Robin Good fellow…( http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9000181/A-Midsummer-Nights-Dream>.. The incidents that take in the play and the film are really the key factor in the story, the play writer orders them in such a way that threes a hint of foreshadowing, yet he doesn’t divulge enough in the incidents to let you know exactly what’s going to happen, this is true for the film as well, although films may be sometimes more easy to visualize because the picture is being drawn right there for you, whereas with a play the writer gives you the necessities and leaves the imagination up to you, the events that took place were very clear and it was also very clear where they were leading, the arrangement and order hat the incidents took place was a large contributor in the film as well as the play to the conflict, the central conflict was based around that of love, Hermia who loved lysander, was not permitted to marry him due to her father will, the play opens with the conversations between theseus , hermias father, lysander, Demetrius , and Helena…( literature 6th edition.p1392). Within the first ten minutes of the play we have the characters background information and he main conflict at hand. Hermia loves lysander but hey cannot marry due to her father will, Demetrius loves hermia but is not loved in return, and Helena loves Demetrius who is also not loved in return, That gives a central conflict, an issue to be resolved as the story progresses. As the play and the film progress we begin to notice some difference in content and the context between the film and the play. The films context is shortened, most likely for length or time purposes, it becomes apparent that the words are either left out as is the case with entire conversation, an example of this can be found on page1423 where the conversation that Oberon has with puck was clearly not in the film version…( literature 6th editionp1423-1424). Context is not the only thing altered from the play to the film, but content as well, there was a whole scene where the working men were gathering and handing out parts for their play, “ Pyramus and Thisbe, when bottom, the most outgoing of them all was embarrassed by having wine dumped on his head, this of course was completely missing from the play that was read…( FILM, Midsummer nights dream..c1999). Once the conflict was established and the differences were noticeable, it then became apparent that for the most part the play and the film were closely related. The main concepts, character, conflicts, settings, where not altered. The central conflict remains the same throughout the play and film, but paves the was for subsidiary conflicts, These conflicts don’t become apparent to us until the lovers retreat for the woods, and it is there that the conflict takes a leap, Now although remaining the same the central conflict is altered some. Now that puck has been ordered to mend things with the lovers, it sets the stage, he then doesn’t