The Role of the Forest in Midsummer Nights Dream and As You Like It Es

William Shakespe be often compares desire and earth in his plays. He explores this comparison through the role and endeavor of the sets in summer solstice Nights imagine and As You Like It. Midsummer Nights Dream focuses on imagination and escape, while As You akin It focuses on reality and self discovery. Imagination plays a key role in Midsummer Nights Dream. hockey puck, a fairy servant and friend of Oberon watches six Athenian hands practice a play to be performed for Theseus wedding in the forest. Puck turns Nick Bottoms head into that of an ass. The other players see Bottom and tramp external screaming. He follows them saying, Sometime a horse Ill be, sometime a hound, a hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire. And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn, like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at either turn (3.1.110-113). Nearing the end of the play Theseus and Hippolyta discuss what the four lovers experienced. Theseus states, I neer may believe these antique fab les nor these fairy toys. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination any compact (5.1.2-3 and 5.1.7-8). At the end of the play the fairies arrive to bless the iii couples. Puck tells us, Now it is the time of night that the graves on the whole gape wide, every one lets forth his sprite, in the churchway paths to glide. And we fairies, that do not run by the triple Hecates team from the presence of the sun, following darkness like a dream, now are frolic. (5.1.396-404). Oberon and Titania sing, So shall all the couples triplet ever true in loving be. And the blots of Natures hand shall not in their issue stand. Never mole, harelip, nor scar, not mark prodigious, such as are despised in nativity, shall upon their children be (5.1.424-431). ... ...a person to escape reality. Through the forest of Arden, a person has time to contemplate life. Or is life a dream, as Puck put it, If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended---that you have but slumbere d here while these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream (5.1.440-445).Works CitedShakespeare, William. A Midsummer Nights Dream. Comp. Folger Shakespeare Library. New York, NY Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009. Print.Shakespeare, William. No Fear Shakeaspeare A Midsummer Nights Dream. Trans. keister Crowther. New York, NY Spark, 2003. Print.Shakespeare, William. As You Like It. Comp. Folger Shakespeare Library. New York, NY Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009. Print.Shakespeare, William. As You Like It. Trans. Gayle Holste. Hauppauge, NY Barrons educational Series, 2009. Print.