Mixture of tragedy and comedy in a midsummer night's Dream
...comedy are exploited throughout the first fourth act and then we will particularly focus on the fifht act, especially the play within the play. The mixture of tragedy and comedy in a Midsummer Night's Dream is not instantly obvious. A first reading of this play gives us the impression to have read a delightful creation, full of events but by reading it once again we can see that there are a lot of tragic themes such as obedience, cruaulty, and conflicts. But in fact it is a comedy for us and not for the characters. They have a partial view of what happened to them: for example they cannot see the fairies. We laugh at the embarassment produced by those situations, I quote in Act II Scene 1 line 185-187 Oberon "But who co...