Drama

1. Theme And Setting Analysis On A Midsummer Night’s
Dream By Shakespeare
Written By
Andy Satrio Ajie

2. Abstract
In this the writer are attempting to analyze the intrinsic element
of drama entitled "A Midsummer Night’s Dream By
Shakespeare" by Shakespeare. The purpose of this paper is to
understand the usage of theme and setting in a drama. The writer
are using close reading with library research in analyzing this
drama. The writer found that the drama are largery depended on
the setting to advance the plot in the drama itself. In conclusion
the usage of the theme and setting in the certain way can provide
more satisfaction for its reader.
key word: Setting,Theme, Summer, Forest, Dream

3. CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
Drama
A Drama is a story devised to be presented by actors on a stage before an audience. This plain
statement of fact affords an exceedingly simple definition of the drama,--a definition so simple
indeed as to seem at the first glance easily obvious and therefore scarcely worthy of expression
But the phrase "devised to be presented" distinguishes the drama sharply from all other forms of
narrative. In particular it must be noted that a play is not a story that is written to be read. By no
means must the drama be considered primarily as a department of literature,--like the epic or the
novel, for example.
Drama is a subject that has occupied the minds of many of the most briliant and talented literary
critics and philosophers from the very beginning of theatrical art in Ancient Greece to our
present days in the modern age. The drama is also the most peculiar, the most elusive, and the
most enthralling of all types of literature. It is capable of appealing so widely and so diversely
to peoples of far distant ages and of varying race, etnicity, and region ; it is also intimately
bound up with the theatre, a meeting-place for all classes of humanity for rich and poor people
and it stands undoubtedly as the most interesting of all the literary products of the
human intelligence.

4. B. Intrinsic
Elements of Drama
The major elements of a drama are as follows:
1. Characters:
Characters are the people in the play's plot. Most plays have a round, major characters and flat, minor characters. The main
characters are more important to a work and usually have a bigger part to play.
2. Dialogue:
The words uttered by characters in a play forms a dialogue. The dialogue reveals the plot and characters of the play. What is
spoken must be suitable to the situation and the role of the character. Things that are said on stage may take on greater worth
or typical qualities than the same things said in everyday speech.
3. Plot:
The plot is events that occur in a story sequentially. Normally the introduction of the characters in the beginning of the play
gives the audience an idea about what the plot. The conflict in a plot may vary but nevertheless it forms the basis for the plot.
The conflict leads the characters from one incident to another unfolding the plot and increasing the suspense and excitement
of the reader or viewer.
4. Setting:
The setting and time in a play tell us where the story happened and the time it occurred. The setting is very important because
what usually happens in the play is influenced by it. Visual components of a setting maybe limited to a painted tree, a bridge,
or a hut, or it could be more elaborate. Shifts in time and space are often indicated by the actors through their speech and
movements.
5. Theme:
The theme actually tells what the play means. Rather stating what happens in the story, the theme deals with the main idea
within the story. Theme has been described as the soul of the drama. The theme can either be clearly stated through dialogue
or action or can be inferred from the entire performance.

5. C. Purpose of the Study
The purposes on this study are:
1. To understand the using of theme in the drama
2. To understand the using of setting in the drama.
3. To have a greater understanding of the drama.
D. Scope of The Study
The scope of this study is the analysis of theme and symbol, in drama entitled
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Shakespeare.

6. CHAPTER II: DISCUSION
A. Theme
As the title suggested, dream is one of the most important theme
in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” they are connected to the
weird, magical act that happen in the forest. Hippolyta words in
the play show us the prevalence of dreams “Four days will
quickly steep themselves in night, / Four nights will quickly
dream away the time” (Act 1,Scene 1,Page 1). The theme of
dreaming repeating again when characters tried to explain their
strange events in which one of these characters said : “I have had
a dream, past the wit of man to say what / dream it was (Act
4,Scene 1,Page 9). Uncapable to understand the magical
event that have affected him as anything but the result of a night
dream.

7. B. Setting
The play begins suposedly in “ancient” Athens, where Duke
Theseus of Athen and Hippolyta of Amazon are preparing for an
elaborate wedding after theseus beaten hippolyta in war and
taking her as his wife. Despite the upcoming reception and
activity that surround the duke marriage, Athens is also a place
for law, order, and justice. Here, a father (Eugeus) can demand
punsihment for his disobedient daughter who refuses to marry
the man of his choosing (Demetrius)(Act One, Scene One, Page
One).

8. CHAPTER III: CONCLUSION
A. Point Of View
This drama is exclusively using third person point of view which is shown
how the drama seldom using a monologue and primarily using dialog to
shown characterization and it’s story.
B. Moral Value
This drama can teach us that sometime mankind or human in general need
a good rest particulary in the form of sleep as working and doing activity
without rest can yield worse result as methaporily use when eugeus keep
trying to marry his daughter relentlesly and go to the point when he treaten
kill his own daughter, and so we need good rest sometime and then wake up
and continue what we are doing with better result.
This drama also show that dreaming is not a bad thing to do, and beside
mankind greatest invention come from the dream of it’s inventor. As shown
when each couple get what they wanted for after agood night dream.