The quote, spoken by Theseus, can be boiled down to one principle: imagination makes people imprudent5. You know what you are doing and there are strict ways to do those things.Īctively (3) discouraged are imagination and spontaneity, as this quote states: “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. It has strict rules and policies everything is very rigid, like your conscious brain and your conscious functions. This also coincides with the theory of the three worlds of Midsummer Night’s Dream, this world being the World of the Court. In the example she gives, we see her compare the conscious brain with Theseus and his court. Here, I will give some examples and points showing that she is correct. There are several examples of what she has stated throughout the play, and I am inclined to agree with her statement.
Garber makes an excellent point about the characters and worlds inside of Midsummer Night’s Dream. ” – Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All, 221-222 In the quote above, Ms. ?Audrey English 8B 11/1/12 Week #10 The Three Coinciding Worlds of Midsummer Night’s Dream “If we wanted to think about the device in psychological terms, we could see the nested worlds, and double characters as representing the conscious (Theseus and the court), the unconscious (Oberon and the fairies), and the world of art, dream, and fantasy (Peter Quince and the “actors” “Bottom’s Dream”) that mediates between them.
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