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Andrés Piñeiro Lage

Luciano González Van

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Index :

Introduction

Allegory of Plato's cave

Night & Darkness

Day & Light

The characters

Introduction:

Light and day are symbols of

reason and knowledge.

Night and darkness are

symbols of passion and

instinct.

As two sides of the same reality, they symbolize the

interdependence of reason and passion

Allegory of Plato’s Cave

Plato said that we are prisoners in a cave

and we only see the shadows of objects,

not the real things. When we will be freed,

going out of the cave, we´ll see all the

truth to lead us out of the dark and into

the day. The outside of cave means

science and reason.

But in the play the light and darkness

change their meanings, light is oppression

and darkness is freedom.

Night & Darkness

At the night of the play there are

the instincts and chaos of the

forest, but also the solution to all

the love problems. This happens in

the nature.

The wood is the place outside the

town where the laws don't apply.

At the day of the play there are

the law and order of Athens, but

also confusion because there was

a loving disorder. This happens in

the town.

Day & Light

The charactersHippolyta and Theseus and Titania and Oberon are mirrored couples.

Opposite sides of the same themes like the light and the darkness.

The feelings of the characters are too deep for be in the parameters of the reason, while the light limits

them, creates orden.