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Essay / A Midsummer Night's Dream - 546
Have you ever wanted something, but then your conscience told you it wasn't right and you couldn't have it? This is an example of the critical lens, the psychoanalytic lens. When you want something so much that you'll do anything to get it, that's your identification, the part of your brain that goes wrong with its first instinct. Then your inner "good side" kicks in and tells you that it wouldn't be good for you to have that, and that's your superego, it tells you the right thing to do. However, there can be a trade-off between the two, known as ego. There are many situations in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream that show the ID, the Ego and the Super-Ego. In each of these incidents, the characters present an in-depth example of psychoanalysis. There are several situations in which the ID lens is shown by the characters in the play. Oberon, the king of the fairies, decided to help Helena because he noticed that her love for Demetrius was only one-sided. He sent Puck as a messenger to the forest to put magic flower juice on Demetrius's eyelids so that he would fall in love with him....