The Law In Njal's Time Compared To Our Current Law

One thing that I did not really pay attention at the beginning of the book was the law. I was really impressed when I first read the first massacre in this book because the consequence of this act was very little. When Gunnar was being sent to the Law Rock I thought that they were going to kill him. At first I thought that the law was eye for eye, tooth for tooth, but then I noticed that there were other ways of reaching to agreement between the two sides. First, I saw that when there were two sides in the battle if one side had one loss and they other one had also one these deaths would compensate each other. “The decision was that Skammkel should lie without compensation, that the amounts for Otkel’s death and for the spur-wound were to cancel each other out and that the other slayings were to be paid for according to each man’s worth,” pg 97 that is one day to solve problems but imagine that our common day system of laws were to be enforced in Njal’s time. I think that if that happened Gunnar would already have lifetime sentence to jail because he has committed all those slayings and Njal would be also in problems with the law for helping Gunnar reach this massacres. Now imagine that the law that was enforced in Njal’s time was now to be enforced in our current time. I think the world would be a more difficult place than it already is. Imagine that you go out to the streets and they kill you and the only thing they give to your family is your lives’ worth and the person who killed you just stayed like this. Or for example in the Twin Towers the only thing they would do to Osama Bin Laden is to make him pay for all the lives that he killed it would not be fair. What I am trying to say is that in Njal’s time the life of a person had a set amount of money and that was all he was worth and personally I think that life has no price. If today they kill one person, even though they give money and put the person who did this in jail, the family will not be completely satisfied because no money or material thing will be able to compensate a life.

A Friendship That Is So Strong That Only Death Could Break IT

Gunnar relationship with Gilgamesh is what we can call best friends. Njal can predict into the future and that is a very good thing for Gunnar because he always asks Njal before he goes on a duel to tell him if he was going to die in this battle. Gunnar had always been friends with Njal “Go to Njal at Bergthorshval- He’ll be able to come up with a plan, and besides, he’s a great friend of yours.” Pg 36 Since Njal was a person that when he said advices he was able to come up with the best ones he was a very good help to Gunnar. You can also see the relationship with Gunnar and Njal like boss and worker. Njal was the intellectual that made up all the plans and all the ways to get fame and glory and Gunnar was the one that carried them out. Gunnar’s and Njal’s friendship got to one point where it was almost destroyed. When Gunnar married Hallgerd I thought she would not be a bad person because she seemed kind and a good person of heart, but when they married we see the dark side of Hallgerd. “She shall never spoil our friendship” pg 54 is what said Gunnar when he told Njal who he had chosen as wife, but Njal responded “It will come close to that” pg 54. Since we know that Njal is almost always certain in his predictions we can suppose that their friendship might be close to be destroyed for the fight between their wives. After this they manage to return their friendship to normal. Njal in one part says to Gunnar that if he does not go well protected he might get killed. Gunnar in one occasion stays in his house alone with only the dog Sam and he is killed. We can say that Njal can predict the future. Since there is no clear God in this saga I would say that the nearest person to a god will be Njal because whatever he says becomes true and because the plans he comes up with always come up correct. Gunnar’s and Njal’s friendship was so great that only death could bring them apart.

Are Women More Powerful Than Men In The Njal's Saga

When I started reading Njal’s Saga I wondered what kind of role women will have in this text. Normally, if you think of the past, you would imagine that women have less power than men or at least that was what I thought. As I continued reading I noticed that the Power that women have is not as small as I thought. Women in this book have power. When Gunnar and Njal had the slaying of their slaves, it was not because of their decision, it was the decision of their wives. When Hallgerd said to her slave Kol to go and kill Svart, she handed him a weapon and said that she would take full responsibility. Bergthora did not react to well to this attack. “Go and look for Kol until you find him, for you must kill him today,” pg 61 and that was how Bergthora counterattacked Hallgerd. The point of this is that Gunnar “returned from the Thing and reproached Hallgerd,” pg 60 but then Hallgerd continued her attack to Bergthora’s household. In many other points of History women who defied their husbands were brought to death, but in Njal’s time it seemed as if women had the same power as men. Another thing that I expected more about women is that the marriages were fixed by their parents. When Gunnar asks for the hand of Hallgerd she tells him “if it is in your mind, you must ask my father,” pg 52 so the marriages are still settled by money, power, and fame. Women had the power to slay people, but not enough to choose who they were going to marry?

Fame And Glory Could Not Always Be So Good

I really liked one maxim that Njal said to Gunnar “and though you have been much tried, you will be tried much more, because many men will envy you.” Pg.52 What Njal is talking about in this case is that once you get fame and glory people will try to defeat you. When a person is regarded as one of the best fighters everyone will try to defeat him in a duel. If you defeat a very important person in anything you will also gain fame and glory. It is as if you drained from him a bit of his fame. For example if there is a tennis player that his rank is a hundred and he has a match against a player that his rank is one the most probable outcome is that number one will defeat the other player. What if the player who is in rank a hundred defeats number one? The one that is in rank hundred will gain more fame because he defeated number one and number one will lose a bit of fame because he lost to a player ranked in a hundred. Another part in the book that makes reference to what fame and glory is when Gunnar seeks the hand of Hallgerd. When Gunnar went to Hoskuld to ask Hallgerd’s hand I thought that he would reject it because Gunnar and Hrut’s family had had a conflict between them. The reaction is the opposite and when he asks Hrut what he thinks he responds “But rather that I see you cannot restrain yourself. Even if we didn’t make a marriage agreement, we would still want to be your friends.” Pg54 Hrut and Hoskuld want to be friends of Gunnar even though they had a quarrel between them. This looks like id Hoskuld and Hrut had forgiven Gunnar, but I think that when Gunnar became very famous they wanted to become allies with him and not fight him. Fame and glory can also lead to your death. If you have too much fame and glory as a warrior everyone will seek to fight you, and in one of those fights you might get killed. This can also have similarities to what Jesus said that when one searched to be exalted one would be humbled, but if one searched to be humble he will be exalted. So in conclusion too much fame and glory can also lead you to death.

Vengeance is like self destruction

Vengeance is a word that by definition means punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense, but for me it can have a lot more of definitions and meanings. Vengeance is an act that requires anger, and when you act when you are angry you don’t normally think very well before doing that. When someone does a bad thing to you the damage is already done, and if you do the same to him you will not gain back what he did. Instead of having one broken life you will have two. Vengeance is a theme we see on everyday life. For example when you are playing soccer and a person hits you really hard and they do not count it as a foul you will get angry and will try to hit the person that hit you.

Vengeance is part of the story of Njal’s Saga. When Gunnar marries Hallgerd he is very close with Njal, but Hallgerd and Njal’s wife Bergthora had a constant fight between them. It happened that these two women started to send their servants to kill the other houses servant. Hallgerd started the fight when she said “I have thought a job for you,” and she handed him a weapon “Go up to Raudaskrid. You’ll find Svart there.” Pg 58 When she starts this a chain of deaths occurs between the servants of the two families. That is what happens with vengeance once it starts it can become a chain and not stop until either one person gives in or one of the persons who are in the chain die. That chain happened in Njal’s saga because one servant killed one of the other houses and the other house sent one to kill the servant that had already killed the servant of his house. I really think that vengeance is not the way to solve all problems and you should find another way to finish because if you do not finish it may continue forever until one person is hurt or one of your loved ones.

Gospel Narratives

Felipe Palacios
Pre-AP English
January 13, 2008

Gospel Narratives

Matthew

In a place where all the chosen of God are gathered around him hearing his teachings

Jesus- “I am the only son of God which will be the only one that can take you to heaven. I am that door that you must pass through to be able to get eternal life. In the day of the final judgment some of you might not enter into the kingdom of God.”

Disciples- “Master do we have a spot in the kingdom of God.”

Jesus- “You that love me love my father because he sent I and everything that I say is controlled by him, and if you love him then you should have a spot in his kingdom. You are the light of this world so now you have the power to cure diseased persons and persons that hath devils in them.”

In the beginning of the mountain when a whole multitude followed him

Leper- “Lord I know that if you want you can make me clean from my disease”

Jesus- “I will lay my hand on you and you will be cured of your disease”

Leper- “Thank you very much lord”

And the Jesus went from many places curing the diseased and spelling out devils of people that had them. Jesus also cured in the Sabbath day which was unlawful to the Pharisees.

Pharisees- “How come you cure on the Sabbath day when you are supposed to do
no work?”

Jesus- “Imagine that you have an oxen or a sheep that has fallen into a pit on the Sabbath day. Wouldn’t you go and save it from the pit or will you leave it there because it is the Sabbath day. These people are my sheep and I am the shepherd so I have to save them when they need me.”

Pharisees- “We have to destroy this sinner because he healed on the Sabbath day and he is gaining power and followers throughout the land. If he gains too much power he might be able to overcome us.”

Jesus to his multitude- “I better get going because this people not loved the son of God and therefore not love God and seek to kill me.”

Jesus then continued to cast out devils and cure diseases and the Pharisees were mad at him and seek to kill him

They brought to him a person possessed with a devil that did not let him speak or see.

Jesus- “You will be healed when I touch you”

And he touched him

Person who was possessed- “Thank you lord now I can see and speak, blessed be your name.”

Pharisees- “Since you cast out devils of people them you must be Beelzebub the prince of the devils.”

Jesus- “If I be with satan I would not cast out his demons because if not the house would be divided and it will fall. I cast out demons in the name of God.”

And then his multitude followed him into a mountain

Disciples- “Lord we have not enough food for the whole multitude.”

Jesus- “Bring me what you have that I may see what I can do.”

Disciples- “We have five loaves of bread and two small fishes”

The Jesus sanctified the bread and fish and gave thanks to God and then gave fish and bread to the multitude. When they had finished he collected the leftovers and were seven
baskets full of food.

Pharisees- “Why do the disciples eat during the Sabbath day?”

Jesus- “When David was hungry he ate.”

Pharisees- “Our law says we shouldn’t do that.”

Jesus- “I am the son of God which is greater than the Sabbath day and you are a generation of fools and vipers.”

Then Jesus had the last supper with his disciples and he said that whoever drank of his blood and ate of his flesh should have eternal life. Then they went to pray in the Mount of Olives. When he had prayed and was coming down a whole multitude came armed.

Judas came and gave a kiss in the cheek to Jesus

Jesus- “Judas is that how you betray the son of God?”

Multitude- “He is the one.”

Then Peter got his sword and cut off the ear from one of the high priests servants.

Jesus- “Peter it is written that I should die to save you all, so do not try to stop them.”

Then Jesus got his ear and healed it back into the servant.

Then they took Jesus to Pilates

Pilate- “I find no fault in this man that you blame, but every day of the Sabbath I free one of the prisoners so you chose if you want Barabbas who is a murderer and thief or Jesus.

Multitude- “Free Barabbas instead of Jesus.”

Pilate- “I will wash my hands of all blood that will be spilled, and his fate is up to you.”

Multitude- “Crucify him”


Then they took Jesus and made him carry his cross with the help of Simon a man from Cyrene. When they got there they placed Jesus in between of two robbers that were going to be crucified. And everyone mocked him and placed a sign on his cross that read “This is Jesus the king of the Jews.” The soldiers and everyone had been hitting him since before and spitting on him. Then Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the Holy Spirit.

Then he was placed on a sepulcher by Joseph one of his disciples, but on the third day when Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the body, but an angel said to them that he had risen and walked out of the dead. And then Jesus appeared into the disciples and told them to go around the world and baptize everyone and spread the word of the Lord.

Matthew way of telling the story was more in a dialogue way than Luke and John which were more in third person telling.






Luke

Day 1
Dear Diary,
Today I was chosen by Jesus to be one of his disciples. He is a very kind person that heals the sick and the people that have defects. He is the son of God and he says to us “I am the son of God and everything I do and speak is because my father has told me. “He is also a very strong man in will. He tells us that he once went into the wilderness for forty days and did not eat anything. Also while he was in the wilderness he was tempted all these days by the devil. The devil promised him many riches and powers over all cities but he did not fall into temptation. Apart from me he also chose eleven other disciples. I hope we all manage to get along well.


Day 2
Dear Diary,
This Morning we were woken up early by Jesus. He told us to leave everything behind our fishing nets, our families, and our lives to follow him. Some of the disciples doubted a little bit before going with him but all finally came. Later we all went with him to preach in the Synagogues in the days of the Sabbath. In one of these synagogues he heard that a person was possessed with one devil and he in front of all these people cast it out. Everyone was impressed and saw how much power he had. People were also impressed of his doctrine because he spoke with a strong points and the word was understood clearly. This night we slept in a haystack that a poor man lends to us.


Day 3
Dear Diary,
Today Jesus is going to preach from the ship of Simon into all the people that are in the shore. When we entered Simon’s ship he told us that he had been fishing all night and had gotten no fish. The Jesus told him to throw his net over to the left and Simon did it. When he tried to get the net out he couldn’t because it was so full of fishes that it almost broke. I the knew that he was a man with great power and knowledge. I had a thought that maybe he might have power over nature but I was not so sure. Then as we were walking to ward a city we saw a man full of leprosy and asked Jesus to cure him. Jesus then touched the leper and with just one touch he was now cured. Now when I saw that he cast out devils from people, can cure diseases and is able to predict what nature would do next I knew he had some extraordinary powers. Then we continued going through cities seeing how Jesus preached the word of God and how he healed people from devils and diseases. Then on our way to a city we met with some Pharisees that told Jesus that why did we eat on the Sabbath day. They said it was unlawful to do this and that we were sinners. Jesus said onto them that the Son of Man is also greater than the Sabbath day. I then saw that if we stayed near Jesus he would also protect us from all evil. This night we slept under some peach trees in the grasslands because no one had given us a place to sleep.

Day 4
Dear Diary,
Today we woke up and ate some eggs that a man that Jesus had healed gave unto us. It was good because we had not eaten since the breakfast of the other morning since we only eat from what the people give to us. We parted to Capernaum and a centurion said to Jesus that he had a dear servant who was about to die and if he wanted he would be whole again. Jesus went with him but not far from his house he told to Jesus master I am not worthy to come unto thee but one word of thee will be enough to save my servant and when he arrived home he was cured. Some Pharisees kept on asking trick questions to God so he would fall and they could accuse him of something but each time the asked him that he responded in a parable that only the true persons that understood the word of God (his disciples) could understand the parable so the Pharisees were left confounded. Later that day Jesus told unto all of us that now we had the power to cure diseases and to expel devils from people’s souls. So we went through many cities and places healing and teaching people of the lord. We went to sleep in the house of Simon that was nearby where we were.

Day 5
Dear Diary,
In one of the synagogues in which we were teaching Jesus cast out a devil from a person and the Pharisees told him that he was Beelzebub the prince of the devils and that was the reason why he could control the devils to leave people. Jesus answered them saying that if one house divided within itself it will soon fall so why would the prince of devils cast out devils? He said to the Pharisees that he expelled devils in the name of God. Jesus also said that the Pharisees were a generation of hypocrites and fools because they did not glorify lord but power, gold, and high seats and distinction. The Pharisees kept on bothering us and God because we did eat on the Sabbath day. He said unto them that he had power over all that, but the Pharisees did not like this and started to become madder at him. We could not sleep that night because we had to be escaping from the Pharisees

Day 6
Dear Diary,
The feast of the Passover was drawing near and one day Judas Iscariot disappeared and we did not know where he went. We all suspected that he was doing some business but, we did not know what kind of business. That night we had the feast of the Passover with Jesus and he told us that this was the last time we would eat together before all of us came into the eternal life. He said that whoever drank his blood and ate his flesh should have the way into eternal life. He also said that tonight one of them would betray him and turn him into the high priests for him to be killed. We all started to look unto one another to see if we could find who but none of us knew except Jesus and he who would betray him. Then after the supper we did not sleep because we passed the night praying at the side of Jesus.


Day 7
Dear Diary,
We were very tired and were asleep when a multitude full of armed people came. Suddenly out of them came Judas and kissed Jesus. Jesus said “Judas is that how you betray the son of man?” We were all astonished and could not move. Another thought that came through my mind was that why did they come with weapons as if they were going to get a thief. Then Simon cut off the ear of one of the high priests servant and Jesus got the ear and placed it in the servants head and healed him. Then Jesus was sent to Pilate but he did not find fault in him. The multitude told him to crucify him, and Pilate told them that he will not be responsible for his fate so he left his fate according to the multitude. They decided that they were going to crucify him. So he carried his cross to the mountain with help of Simon. Then when he was up there they treated him badly and I was so sad and crying that I went down a bit of the mountain because I couldn’t see my lord die. When I heard a scream the sky turned black and I knew what had happened.


Day 8
Dear Diary,
Yesterday they took Jesus to the sepulcher and I am really sad about his death.

Day 9
Dear Diary,
I really do not feel like writing every thing is now lost if he is gone.

Day 10
Dear Diary,
Today Mary Magdalene came and told us that Jesus was not at his tomb then he appeared unto us and told us that it was he that had risen from the dead.


















John

Dear Jesus,


I have heard many things of you that you are a righteous man more than the world has ever seen. I know a lot about you and what you have done because I admire you and really want to meet you. I know that you are the son of God. I am a poor boy from the city of Judea. The Pharisees take everything away from my family and me. I would also like to ask you if we will be going to heaven with you?


I heard that one day at a wedding where the wine has ended and there was only water you told the servants to fill eight jugs full of water and you converted that into wine. I really think that it needs a person to have extraordinary powers to turn water into wine. I also heard that in your temple people were selling and trading stuff and was concentrating in that more than on praying. I really think that you have to be only on one thing to do it well. I also heard that you asked a women to give you water in exchange for the water of life.


When you healed the first person which had been sick for thirty eight years and told him to get his bed and go home I was marveled at your powers and your doctrine. And when you took the five loaves of bread and the two tiny fish and multiplied them by giving thanks to your father. When your disciples picked up the leftovers there were baskets full of food which is a miracle because from five pieces of bread and the two tiny fishes to fill up the whole multitude and to have left over food. I really appreciate that you and your disciples go from city to city healing because when you healed one of the whole multitudes you healed one of my uncles that was very sick.


When the Pharisees started to hunt you and to persecute you because you did not follow the rules of the Sabbath day I started to get afraid because such a good person like you who heals everyone without minding their social classes or their power should not be persecuted. I really liked how you responded unto the Pharisees when they tried to trick you. The parables are a word and way of telling information only to the people that can understand them that are your true followers.


In the last supper when you told all your disciples that you had to die to save the human race and to be able to open up the gates of heaven unto them. Also in the day of the final judgment only people who have gone through you and tried to be like you will be accepted in the eternal life. You blessed the wine and the bread and parted it to your disciples and said that this is your blood and your flesh and that will be the only way to get to the eternal life.

The saddest moment that I heard was when you were praying and Judas betrayed you and handed you in into the high priests and people that seek to kill you. After this Pilate made you get a crown of thorns and handed you to the fate of the multitude which said that you should be crucified. Then they made you take your cross which is not a worthy manner for the Son of Man to die. Then they took you into the mountain and killed you. When I heard this I was so sad, that I did not eat in three days until I heard more news of you. You had revived of the dead as you had told us after the third day and made yourself visible to the disciples and told them that they would be saved and go to eternal life.

A Mid-summer Night's Dream Logs

Act III Sc i

-“Well, we will have such prologue, and it shall be written in eight and six” : denominates the meter of the verse
- There will be two prologues where they mention that Pyramus won’t die and that the lion won’t be real.- “These are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisbe that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself, which the ladies cannot abide. How answer you that?”- “Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?”- Robin arrives and transforms Bottom’s head in a ass head.- Titania falls in love with Bottom´



Act III Sc ii
“Capatain of our fairy band,Helena is here at hand,And the youth mistook by me,Pleading for a lover’s fee.Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!” (112-117)- Pun: “The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so?” (195)- Lysander loves Helena: “Helen I love thee. By my life, I do” (258)- Demetrius as well loves Helena: “I say I love thee more than he can do” (261)- Helena loves Demetrius- Hermia loves Demetrius - Hermia thinks Helena is a “thief of love” because she stole Demetrius’ love to her.“O me! (To Helena) You juggler, you cankerblossom,You thief of love! What, have you come by nightAnd stol’n my loves heart from him?” (296-298)-turns into a sort of love square
Demetrius loves Helens, Helena Loves Demetrius, Lysander loves Helena, and no one loves Hermia
- Helena and Hermia fight for Demetrius’ love.
- Athenian Lovers and Fairies occupy the stage simulaneously.
- Lysander and Demetrius have a duel for Helena's love (both switch their love from Hermia to Helena).
- Here we start to see the repercussions of the potion which was previously used to provoke a confusion amongst the four Athenian lovers.
We can see aggresive effects between Hermia and Helena.- Hermia threatens Helena to scratch out her eyes.
- Lysander and Demetrius vow to protect Helena from Hermia.
- Helena runs away from Hermia, while she disappears.
- Oberon sends Robin Goodfellow to prevent Demetrius and Lysander from fighting.
- He leaves them in a confusion, and consequently applies the nectar on Lysander's eyes while he is asleep.
"And the country proverb known,That every man should take his own,In your waking shall be shown.Jack shall have Jill;Naught shall go ill;The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well" (487-492).





Act IV Sc i
- Act IV of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is very different to the previous three acts of the play. Why? In the three first ones, Shakespeare emphasized on introducing the different characters (the royalty, the craftsmen, and the fairies) and the conflict amongst them. These conflicts seem to be centered in the love triangle or square between the four Athenian Lovers.
- Titania shows her love towards Bottom, who is still an ass head, “O, how I love thee! How I dote on thee!” (46).- This creates a feeling of jealousy on Oberon who takes advantage of her being asleep to undo the effect of the love potion.-
Effectively, Titania wakes up wondering why she was sleeping with a donkey head like Bottom.- They mention the lark here, “Fairy king, attend and mark. I do hear the morning lark” (97-98), which reminds me of Romeo and Juliet where Romeo says he hears the morning lark so he must go, but, Juliet says she hears the nightingale. These two birds symbolize the contrast between day and night.
- Thenceforth, Robin Goodfellow applies a charm on Bottom which repairs his ass head and brings back his normal face.
- After this, we can see how the scene divides by the fairies exiting, and by Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus entering.
- They find the Athenian Lovers lying asleep and wake them up to question them their story, which for them was partly real, it was only a dream. The only aspect that is clear for everyone is that Demetrius and Helena love other, such as Lysander and Hermia do.
- When they leave, Bottom wakes up and tells the crowd that he just had a dream. In this part of the play is where we start to see the relevance of its content with the title. Especially with the plot of the Athenian Lovers we see how dreams have an effect on the events, and how these are connected to all the odd events that happen in the forest. As well, with the intervention of dreams and magic in the play, Shakespeare tries to make things happen without a clear explanation, because in the long run, magic and dreams are unexplainable.
“The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was” (220-224).
Here we see how dreams are unexplainable and indescribable that man cannot see, taste nor conceive.

Act IV Sc ii

- All the actors are united before the start of the play and the see that Bottom is missing
- “Have you sent to Bottom’s house? He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported.”
- As soon as they are going to start to get dressed up and be ready to present the play Bottom arrives. This really is like the typical plot of a sport movie that their best player is missing and as soon as the referee is going to start the match the player arrives.



Act V Sc i

The Act opens with Theseus and Hippolyta discussing the previous events concerning the four Athenian lovers, caused by magical “love potions”.
- Theseus doesn’t believe Hippolyta because he argues that darkness and love excite the imagination, “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact” (8-9).
- Hippolyta replies, “But all the story of the night told over, and all their minds transfigured so together” (24-25).
- When the lovers arrive, Shakespeare uses Theseus in order to connect the two substories of the play, the one of the craftsmen and the one of the royals. Hence, Theseus proposes the lovers that a perfect way to end this harsh conflict would be by watching a performance of the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe.
- The comments that Egeus makes about the play of the craftsmen reflect discrimination towards them since he judges the play for the social status of its actors.
- However, Theseus says that eventhough the craftsmen are of a lower social class, their intentions of making a good work will make the play worth of being seen.
“For never anything can be amissWhen simpleness and duty tender it” (88-89)
.- As the play within the play demonstrates being a clumsy performance of the actual myth of Pyramus and Thysbe, it ends being a comedy rather than a tragedy, both for the audience and the reader.
- Highlighted by Quince’s mediocre prologue, full of pauses and abrupt sentences, he changes completely the meaning of it to the height of making it say the opposite: “We do not come, as minding to content you, our true intent is. All for your delight we are not here. That you should here repent you” (119-122).
- At this point, Shakespeare leaves the play within the play aside and takes the reader to the context of the fairies, where Puck, Oberon and Titania end the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by saying to the audience that they shall remember the events of the play as only a dream.
“Sent with broom before,To sweep the dust behind the door” (406-407).“If we shadows have offended,Think but this and all is mended:That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did appear” (440-444).
- Puck ends the play extending the barriers between reality and the world of magic. He insinuates the audience to remember A Midsummer Night’s Dream only as a dream.