Shakespearean comedyA Mid-Summer Night Dream is is highly charged with ecological potential. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595) is early production of William Shakespeare. The title itself encompasses the seasonal ecology of northern hemisphere. The play appears to be a fantasy which reveals relationship of human with nature both physically and symbolically. The forest in the comedy plays a vital role in giving shelter to the young lovers. It is also the Mother nature(forest) which helps in healing the hurt ones.
“But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.
Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,
As in revenge, has sucked up from the sea
Contagious fogs, which falling in the land
Hath every petty river made so proud
That they have overborne their continent
But, shrinking the ecological engagement with nature and treating nature as paltry thing spoiled and disturbed the relation. Which is reversed while excursion into the woods shows a therapeutic effect on humans’ relationships? Not only the deep green wood atmosphere sets them right but also the extracted juice from plants transform the characters. The emerging from the enchanted woods into the light of day are four newly-matured young people who are ready to make their commitment to life, to marriage, to society.
Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius are the characters that run into forest and came out as changed beings. The potion of love – a juice from a flower – has caused certain confusions. The potion had made the fairy queen Titania to fall in love with Bottom whose head has been change into that of an ass.
The social ecology in the play is evident as on hierarchy the top most place is that of fairies and human beings are at the bottom. The fairies manipulate the human beings and their sentiments. The whole play is rich with evidences of the relationship of man and nature and their interdependency on each other.
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