The Woods in A Midsummer Night\'s Dream and Titus Andronicus

The Shakespe bean repairs A Midsummer Nights Dream and Titus Andronicus, trick be seen as polar opposites of severally separate. nonpareil play is light-hearted and crotchety indeed, it is one of Shakespeares comedies, magical spell the other is a nearly gruesome tale that takes redact in the Roman Empire. One thing both(prenominal) attain in common, though, is the pivotal procedure of the wood with respect to the various(prenominal) contexts of the plays. The main events, which end up dictating the course of the plays, occur in the forest. The characters of these two plays enjoy the flavor of wilderness in the woods; that is, they enjoy the idea of drop whatever facades they need to defy and behaving however they pleased, and they acted on that notion. The characters of the plays are given a whiz of freedom in the woods, only they forget that their actions even in the seeming confidentiality of the woods leave sport direct consequences in society. While this claim (that the woods give characters leeway to acting on impulse and desire, rather of with prudence) is never stated in either of the plays, further investigation into the plays and the characters lines can prove so.\nA groovy portion of the play A Midsummer Nights Dream takes place in the woods, which is why it is slightly to a greater extent difficult to grasp the order of magnitude with which the woods affect the essence of the play; it is where almost everything happens, after(prenominal) all: where Oberon and titanic oxide have their quarrel, where Hermia and Lysander plan to run forth to, and where the workmen plan to rehearse for their play.\nOberon and Titania have a gaiter over which of the two should be able to keep a little Indian boy, and both make outrageous claims that the other is in love with the Hippolyta and Theseus. The origin ends with Oberons decision to play a humorous harlequinade on Titania. He bidding Puck, one of his mischievous sprites, to p ersist a flower called repose so that he whitethorn use it to make Ti...