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A Midsummer Nights Dream - 'The wood is a place of real peril; it is also the wood of error' Explore the perils and errors of the wood and relate them to 'the rational daylight world of Theseus's court.'
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Melanie Parkes 'The wood is a place of real peril; it is also the wood of error' Explore the perils and errors of the wood and relate them to 'the rational daylight world of Theseus's court.' In the wood the fairy world is in a state of disorder brought about by the King of the Fairies, Oberon, who allows his judgements to be swayed by his personal emotions, the same unreasonable emotional disorder that also sent the lovers into the woods initially. The play starts and ends in Theseus's court showing a contrast between the order in his court and the abandonment of reason and restrained emotions shown in the wood. Although the leaders seem evident targets for the mishaps occurring at the beginning of the play, an Elizabethan audience would have been ready to blame the Wives of the leaders for any misfortune occurring due to their disobedience. A modern audience...
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