Introduction

Shakespeare’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents a comedy written in 1595. The comedy narrates Theseus marriage and the significant activities that take place in his life. The comedy presents William Shakespeare’s masterpiece, which became written in aristocratic wedding performance. The story also focuses on Amazons queen and the Duke of Athens. Explanations regarding the Athenian lover’s adventure and six incompetent actors become present in the comedy. The six actors are manipulated and controlled pixels inhabiting the forest. The play presents the most wildly held Shakespeare’s work and extensively performed worldwide. The comedy exhibits four interlocking schemes, which become linked by the wedding celebration of Athens Duke Theseus and the Hippolyta, the queen of Amazon (McMahon 17). The ceremony takes part in the Fairyland realm in the woodland.

The opening of the play starts with Hermia, who is Lysander’s lover. Her father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius. Helena, who is a best friend to Hermia yearns to have Demetrius, but he broke up with her to marry Hermia. Egeus becomes angry and breaks Athenian law, which states that a daughter must marry a suitor who her father chooses or becomes killed. (McMahon 18).Duke Theseus offers her an alternative situation, which includes becoming a nun.

The film synopsis was in the Italy kingdom in the 19th century, where major actors starred Kelvin Klein, Sophie Marceau, and Rupert Everett. In the explanation, Hermia and Lysander become forbidden to marry by Egeus, who is the father. Hermia’s father wants her to become married to Demetrius (Hoffman). After knowing about the arrangements, Hermia and Lysander escape to the forest.

Helena leaked the information to Demetrius and followed them. Helena is a young woman who sincerely loves Demetrius. They roam into the fairy world the moment they reach the forest. The forest becomes ruled by Titania and Oberon, who becomes the fairies queen and king. Due to their love magic potion, mayhem occurs, which leads to Demetrius, and Lysander falls in love with Helena (Hoffman). The situation causes a split between the four of them. Significant differences become depicted in both the text and the film. The film captivates Shakespeare’s comedy version, which exhibits differences. The film presents a strange romances, fairies, and dangerous potions.

Differences in both the comedy and the film

One of the vital issues of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the differences imposed between the fairies, sprites, and magical forces. A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents Shakespeare’s most common and regularly executed comical plays. Michael Hoffman changed the comedy in to film form. The dialogue and the basic plot were similar, but character traits evolved. Hoffman sets out a Shakespeare example of modernisation in the film (Alleva).  The film location is Monte Athena’s Tuscan town, which differs from the setting of the story in ancient Athens.

The place presents a naturalistic scene and mythical with ruined buildings. The modernization enables the director to fit the scheme of the film in a perfect way for the audience. The inventions of Hoffman fails to adjust to the text. Hoffman has deleted several verbal fascinations, which include the language of the villagers in the background being Italian (Alleva). In the text, Titania refuses to give her mate the little page boy due to the Lads dead mother. In the film, the main cause of their quarrel seems to be cabin fever. Titania and Oberon fail to reconcile after being in exile for sixteen hundred years. The severe reduction of Shakespeare’s complex emotionality fails to become instituted in the film. An example is the actions of the fairy folk who are exiled communities desiring new homes. They rustle things out of Monte Athena to identify the motives of the mortals

The fairies’ ideas change regarding the play context by Shakespeare. Titania fails to command rain and lighting in the film. Together with nymphs, they become unable to work the Theseus villa phonograph (Alleva). The fairies respect Bottom when he works as Casta Diva. The explanations of working man according to Shakespeare changes when Hoffman considers him as an individual who lacks glamour towards Titan, but he is a convenient man. The character of Bottom in the text significantly differs in the film. Hoffman expels the conception of Shakespeare from the production of the film.

According to the text, Hoffman presents Bottom as a magnificent monster of happy complacency and does not take criticism seriously. In the film, Hoffman depicts Bottom as having a fragile ego and takes criticism in a negative manner (Alleva). An example includes when he becomes poured with wine that ruins his shirt and Bottom crumbles. In the text, Bottom would have considered the situation as a tribute He believes Titanias are positively wooing towards Kline. In the text, Bottom becomes depicted as an individual who gets what he thinks he deserves. In the film, Bottom achieves what he never imagines to get. The film set in the 1800s enables Hoffman to institute modern inventions. Hoffman’s concept permitted diverse choices of costumes in the way he contrasted Athenians with the fairies. Despite the film adoption of the play suitably, the specifics added are in the passage of the play’s world vision.

Conclusion

Literature changes throughout history into diverse styles and forms. Due to current modernization, some actions fit in the scheme of the director while others fail to fit. Hoffman has significantly erased some of the parts which exist in the text. Shakespeare’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hoffman and the 1999 Midsummer Night’s Dream film version presents masterpieces in exploring the diverse issues of friendship and love. The main characters, including Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, and Helena, present love obstacles. Both the text and the film present an individual challenge regarding the barriers by being faithful and committed. The idea imposed by Lysander states that the true love course is never smooth. The differences have led to critically think about the artist’s conception of Shakespeare.

The idea of changing the Athens setting to Italy leads to questioning the film enhancement. Language presents the single film element that rhymes with the original Shakespeare’s play. The language becomes overshadowed by the film’s action to cater to the audience who becomes poorly versed with the language. The film fails to present a sense of mystery and ritual. The setting of the film, tone and the characters presents a diverse approach in the analysis. Michael Hoffman performs an implausible work in the capturing the emotions and feelings of the Shakespearian comedy while instituting the usual script. Despite Hoffman changes in the comedy set, he establishes similar to Shakespeare’s play language. Film adaptations regarding the original text use diverse ways in the transmission of a story.

The text version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents better analysis as compared to the film. The release of the film instituted too much modernity, which failed to feelings of the audience the time the play became written. In the film version, the characters fitted well on the part they were performing. The film setting contributes to a role that shows two different worlds. The film humorously and effectively demonstrated the challenges that existed among the fairies and lovers. The film conversely failed in the exhibition of the raw poetic analysis exhibited by the comedy.

Works cited

Alleva, Richard. “Reworking Shakespeare, A Midsummer night dream.” 18 June 1999. common weal.

Hoffman, Michael. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream Trailer.” YouTube, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1999, www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYknOe7OluE.

McMahon, Michael. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Hungry Minds, Inc, 2001.