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The Carnival of his World and the Subversion of Patriarchal Society—On the Duality of a Midsummer Night’s Dream

Authors
Jiayi Wang1, *
1Taizhou University, Taizhou, 318000, China
*Corresponding author. Email: wjy80231402@163.com
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Jiayi Wang
Available Online 13 February 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_197How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Shakespeare; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Carnival; opposition
Abstract

Drama is inseparable from characters, drama has duality, Shakespeare’s plays like to use the dual world, forming a kind of mirror image. In Shakespeare’s comedy masterpiece A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the fairy world and the mortal world form a mirror image, and the king of the fairy world, O’Brown, and the duke of Athens, Theseus, the fairy titania and The fiancée of Theseus, Hippolyte, the attendant of the fairy king, and the craftsman of the mortal world, Bolton, form three pairs of double characters. The setting of the binary world makes the profound ideas contained in Shakespeare’s comedy multi-dimensional. This paper uses a literature research method to explore the existence of the binary world in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The author found that by cleverly manipulating this relationship, Shakespeare highlighted the dichotomy of the forest and the court, the sensual and the sensual. In the play, where the cold rationality is attacked and traditional authority is subverted, he expresses affirmation and desire for qualities such as sensibility, madness, and fantasy.

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Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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13 February 2023
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978-2-494069-97-8
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_197How to use a DOI?
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