Transformation
in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream
William Shakespeare uses transformation as a way to change
certain things in his play. The word transformation is defined by Dictionary.com
as “A change in form, appearance, nature, or character. Shakespeare uses
transformation to display change in his play. He uses it to shift your view from
one point to another.
Bottom, love, and
power are all examples of how Shakespeare uses transformation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is Snout
seeing Bottom for the first time with the head of a donkey. Snout exclaims, “O Bottom, thou art changed!
What do I see on thee?” (Shakespeare 3.1.111-117) Puck uses his magic to
transform Bottom to a head of an ass. This is ironic because Bottom can
sometimes act like a jerk. Robin also says, “On the ground sleep sound. I apply
to your eye, gentle lover, remedy.”(3.2.477-481)This is when Robin is putting
the potion on Lysander’s eyes. When he does this he transforms Lysander’s point
of view when it comes to who he loves. The first person he sees is who he
loves. Shakespeare uses the general concept of power to show that the fairies
are more dominate than the humans. The fairies are able to transform the humans
in both mental and physical ways. They were able to transform Lysander and make
him love someone else as well as being able to transform Bottom so he had the
head of a donkey. They were also able to fix him and turn him back. This shows that
the fairies have more power. You could say that the power has transformed for
the humans to the fairies. Though out A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses Bottom, love, and power as
examples of transformation.
There are many
cases of transformation in the modern world. One example of transformation is
gene splicing. This is where you can take DNA from one organism and put it into
another to transform it. Scientist can make a lot of strange thing by doing
this. They would be able to make glowing mice by taking the DNA of something
that glows and splicing it into the DNA of an ordinary mouse. The mouse would
basically transform into something new. Another form of transformation is
bribery of powerful people or really any person for that matter. You could bribe someone usually with money to
make them do something that you want. For example somebody could bribe the
president with a whole bunch of money so he would change a law or something
else. That president’s view on the subject would be transformed so he would
look at it in a different way. The last
example of transformation is ageing. Nobody stays young forever and when you
age in a way you transform for stage to stage. You start off as a baby crawling
around then as you get older your body transforms and be could stronger making
you able to walk on two feet. Then as the years go by your body may go though
some other forms of transformation such as growing taller and then well your
even older you may start to shrink. These are all examples of transformation in
modern life.
Transformation can
appear though various situations. The prime connection transformation, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and modern
day are though power. Power is shown by the fairies in the book, and it is
shown though ranks of authority in modern day. The fairies display it by
showing the have power over human emotions, such as love, and modern day people show it by being promoted
to a higher level and therefore having more control. All of the examples in the
book prove that Shakespeare uses transformation.
Work Cited
Shakespeare,
William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul
Werstine. New York: Washington Square P, 2003.
"Transformation." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com,
n.d. Web. 05 Feb. 2013.
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