...To Dream or not to Dream...Not only are dreams toys, as Antiogonus so elegantly states, but sometimes "dreams" determine how we see the world.
Why dose Shakespeare refer to Leonties condition as a living dream and what dose it do for the play...Why was it said that way?
How different would Leonties actions have been if instead of fitting Herminoe into a dream, it would have been i saw you, i caught you, and other know it too. Your actions have witnessed against you, but instead the rub was your actions are my dreams. I have dreampt of you and Polexines and now you are in the role, you have been cast without consent. His dream--a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions that pass through the mind (wik). He has seen Hermione with Polenxines, he has seen the vial deed, contemplated the thoughts, painted perfectly the picture, felt the emotions and now reality is swallowed in the image. Herminoe living and breathing in front of him is in his dream. He has welded them together in such a way it is reality. He has seen it, caught her, and the others are blind and dishonest. Shakespeare along with his character has trough the word dream captured the maleficence of dreams.
We too, like Leonties, can be consumed by this so called paradox. "For as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" (lds.org). We reap that which we sow. That which we dream about too often becomes our reality because we begin to make choices that organize it and breath life into it. The dream then takes shape as ones future. Ones happiness and accomplishments are commanded by ones dreams and ones dreams are commanded by one!
As a society we can fall to the lie of the dream, thinking that success and happiness come from power and beautiful things. One can craft that Paradise as a quiet grove of trees, moist with the morning dew and sweet with the smell of evening rain, brushed with the rays of golden sun light, and with a path down the middle to lead ones way. However the living breathing loving reciprocating family at one's side might go unenjoyed and over looked.
Are dreams evil? Certainly not, for without vision the people perish, but one must define them what they are. Dream big! Aim high in hope! But love what is given, take reality and embellish it with dream and beware dream embellish with reality.
Your actions are my dreams
You had a bastard by Polexines
You had a bastard by Polexines
We too, like Leonties, can be consumed by this so called paradox. "For as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" (lds.org). We reap that which we sow. That which we dream about too often becomes our reality because we begin to make choices that organize it and breath life into it. The dream then takes shape as ones future. Ones happiness and accomplishments are commanded by ones dreams and ones dreams are commanded by one!
As a society we can fall to the lie of the dream, thinking that success and happiness come from power and beautiful things. One can craft that Paradise as a quiet grove of trees, moist with the morning dew and sweet with the smell of evening rain, brushed with the rays of golden sun light, and with a path down the middle to lead ones way. However the living breathing loving reciprocating family at one's side might go unenjoyed and over looked.
Are dreams evil? Certainly not, for without vision the people perish, but one must define them what they are. Dream big! Aim high in hope! But love what is given, take reality and embellish it with dream and beware dream embellish with reality.
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