A Comparison of A Midsummer Nights Dream and Romeo and Juliet Essay

Parallel Themes and Characters in A summer solstice Nights pipe dream and Romeo and Juliet     accepted parallels can be drawn between William Shakespeares plays, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. These parallels concern themes and prototypical Shakespearian graphic symbol types. Both plays have a distinct pair of lovers, Hermia and Lysander, and Romeo and Juliet, respectively. Both plays could have also easily been disaster or comedy with a few simple changes. A tragical play is a play in which one or more characters  has a moral flaw that leads to his/her downfall. A comedic play has at least(prenominal) one humorous character, and a successful or happy ending. canvass these two plays is useful to find how Shakespeare uses similar character types in a variety of plays, and the versatility of the themes which he uses.             In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is young, not yet fourteen, and she is beautiful, and Romeos reply after he sees her is, O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of iniquity As a rich jewel in an Ethiops ear witness to rich for use, for the earth too dear   Juliet is al... ..., not because one character has a flaw, but both families have a flaw- pride.             Prohibited love, romance, domineering families, both plays have it all. With a few simple modifications, A Midsummer Nights Dream could have been a tragedy, and Romeo and Juliet could have been a comedy. Shakespeare however, uses many of the equal character types, young, prudent, rebellous lovers, and controling family members, in both comedies and tragedies. The end results are character molds, along with theme molds that can be easily translated into almost any plot, in any play.