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Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream "In what ways (and to what ends) does Shakespeare use metamorphosis?"
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Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream LT111-1 "In what ways (and to what ends) does Shakespeare use metamorphosis?" Throughout this play, Shakespeare employs the theme of metamorphosis (through the inclusion of the fairies and their magic) not only to further the story as an indirect plot device but also to highlight the play's other prevalent themes (e.g.: love, marriage, gender, jealousy, etc.). Despite the undertones of 'tragedy', the play is primarily concerned with comedy, the employment of both ideological and physical metamorphosis throughout providing the basis for the comedic elements. The majority of the comedy revolves around the derision and scorn of the craftsmen whose inclusion supplies the humour in their woeful attempt at writing a tragedy (a scene specifically calculated to amuse regular theatregoers and urban sophisticates) and the patronising tones by which they are addressed (regarded as 'hempen homespuns', III.1.70 and 'hard-handed men...which never laboured in their minds until now', V.1.72-3...
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