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A Midsummer Night's Dream - 1935 (End Scene)

A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935 End Scene Oberon & Titania, with all their Train. Because there is no such thing as harmonious love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the climate of fairyland is disrupted. We could even add that the mischievous Puck, a Cupid-like figure at work in the woods, proves the impossibility of concord in such an unstable environment. Rather they strengthening the couples, he weakens them and makes them err in the labyrinthine forest of Athens. In an intriguing way, Puck prefigures the Cupid described by Francis Bacon in the Wisdom of the Ancients, a text which presents the ever-shifting god of love as an atom. 20 Cupid—and Puck, for that matter—is always “elegantly described with perpetual infancy or childhood” and similarly, “the first seeds of things or atoms, they are little and diminute, and always in their infancy.” In other words, like the atoms evoked in Lucretius’ De rerum natura, Puck perpetually moves in a vacuum where he freely exerts his power on the outside world. Shakespeare’s Dream thus seems to be atomist avant la lettre, something particularly worth noting in connection with King Lear, another anti-pastoral, albeit much darker. For the time being, let us note that humidity and coldness are prevalent not only in the not so idyllic Athenian woods, but in the world in general. We learn that, in the west, there has been a flood “fill[ing] up with mud” the “none men’s Morris” (2.1.99), and in the east (the motherland of the stolen Indian child), the “wanton wind” (2.2.129) keeps blowing and makes the sea rough. As a result, moisture is prevalent in the world of the comedy, so much so that secondary characters are not immune from it. Amusingly, on learning that Pyramus is “[a] lover, that kills himself, most gallant, for love” (1.2.20), Bottom decides that the role “will ask some tears in the true performing of it” (1.2.21-22). Even the Dream’s metaphoric language is pregnant with allusions to humidity. Saddened by her father’s hostility towards Lysander, Hermia mentions “the tempest of [her] eyes” (1.1.129), and Helena laments the behaviour of her beloved Demetrius, who “hailed down oaths that he was hers” (1.1.2 3) before suddenly changing his mind: And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt, Puck..... "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have slumb'red here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend. And, as I am honestPuck, If we have unearned luck Now to scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call. So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends."