e poetry of the play. "Four happy days bring in another moon: but, O, me thinks, how slow. This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires". As a result of their enormous allusive potential, these images engender am entire network of interlocking symbols that greatly enrich the text. The moon, water, and wet flowers conspire to extend the world of the play until it is as large as all imaginable life. The mood and water also explain the play's mystery and naturality. The pattern of the play is controlled and ordered by a series of vital contrasts: the conflict of the sleeping and waking states, the interchange of reality and illusion, reason and imagination, and the disparate spheres of the influence of Theseus and Oberon. All is related to the portrayal of the dream state. In this dramatic world where dreams are a reliable source of vision and insight, consistently truer than reality, they seek to interpret and transform. The imagery establishes the dream world in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The night creates a mysterious mood. At night, the fairy realm takes control. These fairies are brainless and deceitful, which leads to controversy between the mortals. The two worlds, united by moonlight, are active during their respectable times of the day. In the play, the fairy world is dominant, because there is only one scene containing daylight. In Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" there is a lot of absurd dream logic at the end of the story both in Fahrquhar's reflections and his situation: "the noose about his neck was already suffocating him and kept the water from his lungs," and so is some kind of protection. This ignores the other effect of strangulation. The descriptionWhenever I see a literary classic turned into a movie with its author's name as part of the already well-known title, I regard it as a danger sign. Remember "Bram Stoker's Dracula," "Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, " and the overextended music video known as "Willia...
