How Two Shakespearean Couples Resolve Conflict in Their...

How Two Shakespearean Couples Resolve Conflict in Their Relationships in A Midsummer Nights Dream and As You Like It In Shakespeares comedies, A Midsummer Nights Dream and As You Like It, the playwright deals with love, relationships, and how couples come to terms with their problems and resolve the conflicts within themselves and with those around them. Both of the plays point out that when individuals look within themselves and face the issues that are keeping them apart from the one they love, they can begin to heal the relationship. Helena and Demetrius from A Midsummer Nights Dream go to the forest to run away from their problems while Rosalind and Orlando from As You Like It are forced to flee to the forest because they†¦show more content†¦Helena becomes willing to change herself rather than Demetrius. Her journey into the forest enabled her to gain the qualities she lacked in order to have a relationship with the man she loved. Rosalind, unlike Helena, is very confident and takes matters into her own hands. Her conflicts are more external, rather than the internal conflicts o f Helenas. Rosalind has to deal with Orlandos idealization of her and his inability to speak when she is around. She takes the responsibility of finding a way to make things work with Orlando. She (as Ganymede) tells him that she (he) will cure him of his lovesickness. Rosalinds plan is to show Orlando that she is an ordinary woman with some of the same faults as every other woman. Rosalinds maturity and self-confidence allows her to focus on her plan to show Orlando that she is not perfect: would now like him, now loathe him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now weep for him, then spit at him (3.2.415-417). Ganymede explains how Rosalind will behave: I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cockpigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey. I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you are disposd to be merry. I will laugh like a hyen, a nd that when thou art inclind to sleep. (4.1.149-156) We see here, thatShow MoreRelatedAs You Like It a Romantic Comedy1658 Words   |  7 PagesThe major conventions of Shakespearean Romantic Comedy are: The main action is about love. The would-be lovers must overcome obstacles and misunderstandings before being united in harmonious union. The ending frequently involves a parade of couples to the altar and a festive mood or actual celebration (expressed in dance, song, feast, etc.) A Midsummer Nights Dream has four such couples (not counting Pyramus and Thisbe!); As You Like It has four; Twelfth Night has three; etc. Frequently (but notRead MoreHamlet and a Midsummer Nights Dream1870 Words   |  8 Pages’ The conflict that is inevitably born out of love is a central theme at the heart of Midsummer’s Night’s Dream and Hamlet, but is extended by Shakespeare not only to romantic relationships, but to familial bonds as well. The conflict is ultimately resolved in diametrically opposing ways in each play, according to the conventions of their respective genres. Hamlet is a tragedy, and therefore can result only in death, but AMND, as a comedy, uses the traditional method of marriage to resolve its conflict