‘We see / The seasons alter’: Climate Change in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-56
Author(s):  
Sophie Chiari
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
The World ◽  
A Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
People’S Attitudes

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595-96), wetness informs the play as a whole. The moon spreads humidity in Athens while the weather turns rainy and cataclysmic, due to the unruly behaviour of Oberon and Titania who are the source of the general confusion turning the world upside-down. Their quarrel over the little Indian boy alters the cycle of the seasons and, as a result, the would-be paradise of the forest is ‘filled up with mud’ (2.1.91). If Titania’s lines on climatic ‘distemperature’ (2.1.109) certainly have some sort of topical relevance, reducing them to a mere commentary on the vagaries of the English weather in the 1590s would hardly do justice to the richness and complexity of Shakespeare’s festive comedy. This chapter shows that the Dream and its ever-shifting environment serve as an experimental ground to challenge medieval beliefs and to test fresh hypotheses, such as the idea that people’s attitudes may in fact be responsible for climatic imbalance.

scholarly journals DEATH IN 2020 AND A COVID-19 GREAT EPIDEMIC: AN ISLAMIC ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-141
Author(s):  
Md. Kohinoor Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Religions ◽  
The World ◽  
Present World ◽  
The Universe ◽  
People Today

Only love to almighty Allah is the greatest love. From ages to ages, Allah has sent his messengers to preach only love to Him. Many destructions, disruptions, and explosions have occurred in this world. This paper tries to explore the causes of the great disasters in the world. The global people when they lead an invalid way, there occurs a terrible crisis. None of the worlds saves it. Only Allah can save global people. Today, the present world is full of share-ism, idolatry-ism, usury-ism, zakat-free-ism, killing-ism, injustice-ism, and inhumanity-ism. They practice about Gods and Goddesses. They believe that the sun, the moon, the stars, the trees, the stone, the angels, the jinn, and other animals can reach Allah. They are the dearest persons who are God, Gods, Goddess, and Goddesses related. Above eleven million people think and say that there is no creator of the universe. It is operating as automated. Marriages and sexism are human to animal. They practice as same-sex, polygamy, polygyny, and polyandry. Most of the global people pray to Materials, Death Guru, God, Gods, Goddess, Goddesses, Peer, Saai, Baba, Abba, Dihi Baba, Langta Baba, Khaja Baba, Joy Guru, Joy Chisty, Joy Baba Hydery, Joy Maa Kali, Maa Durga, Moorshid Kibla, Baba Haque Bhandary, Joy Ganesh Pagla, Joy Deawan Baggi, Joy Chandrapa, Joy Sureshwaree, Fooltali Kebla, Sharshina Kebla, Foorfoora Kebla, Joy Ganapati, Joy Krishnan, Joy Hari, Joy Bhagaban and Mazzarians. The new religions have preached in the world such as Baha’i, Kadyany, Khaljee, Din-E-Elahi, Brahma, and Humanism. The world is full of Shirkism, Moonafikism, Goboatism, Bohtanism, Mooshrikiaism, Oathlessism, and Khianotkariism. In the past, undetermined civilizations have vanished but none can save civilization. This Covid-19 great destruction is human-made. It is from climate change that comes to the global people as a great curse.

Thither and Back Again

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Sue Emmy Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Children With Special Needs ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
The World ◽  
A Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
Other World ◽  
Culturally Embedded

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the experience of the other world is a central theme, symbolised by the world of the fairies. The play traces a journey from the rigid laws of the court to the seeming chaos of the forest to a return to a place of compromises. It is within the forest that several characters experience ‘other worldliness’; indeed, the forest itself becomes the other world. In my fieldwork with the Senoi Temiar peoples in Malaysia, there is also a belief in other world journeys. In addition to the other world, there are issues addressed in terms of applying Shakespeare with children with special needs as well as troubled teenagers and adults. I describe my own learning from the tribe in terms of understanding child attachment and development. Finally, I suggest that Shakespeare’s plays, in particular Dream, provide rites of healing. These are provided in other societies by their own culturally embedded rituals of healing.

Meteorology, Embodiment, and Environment in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-151
Author(s):  
Mary Thomas Crane
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
Institutional Control ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
A Midsummer Night's Dream

The fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream represent agents of meteorology, the branch of natural philosophy that explained the unruly and impermanent world of elements that existed below the sphere of the moon. Although the conclusion of the play stages a resecuring of social and institutional control over unruly natural forces, it leaves questions about how permanent that control can be. As anthropomorphized forces of nature, the fairies reveal the limits of human ability to control the natural world, highlighting the power of what Jane Bennett has called ‘vital materialism’.

The Ritual of Midsummer: A Pattern for A Midsummer Night's Dream

1978 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anca Vlasopolos
Keyword(s):  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Dual Frame ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
A Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
Frequent Reference

Interpretations of A Midsummer Night's Dream have suffered from a hesitation or a downright refusal on the part of critics to consider the full significance of the ritual of Midsummer, or Saint John's Day, in Shakespeare's comedy. The play, like the ritual which informs its structure, maintains a dual frame of reference, Christian and pagan. Within this frame such seemingly unrelated subjects as the moon and dew imagery, the frequent reference to eyes, and the business of magic plants, particularly the peacemaking ‘Dians bud,’ become thematic components of the comic movement toward reconciliation of natural and lawful love. The lovers’ progression from the night of misrule to the light of the holy day parallels the pagan nature of the Midsummer festival and its Christian conclusion.

The Coming Space Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 270-280
Author(s):  
William Halal
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Space Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
Knowledge Age ◽  
Space Age

This chapter draws on forecasts from The TechCast Project to map out the beginning of the Space Age about 2050. The author's work on the Life Cycle of Evolution shows that the world is moving beyond the Knowledge Age, which began about AD 2000, and is now entering an Age of Consciousness about 2020. This seems to mark the culmination of civilization on Earth, when the planet reaches a stage of maturity needed to resolve historic threats such as climate change. If this passage to a unified global order is successful, it should mark the beginning of space exploration beyond the solar system. The commercialization of space will likely be well underway, and colonies established on the Moon and possibly Mars, solar satellites will likely be functioning, and space tourism will become normal. With Earth a stable civilization, attention should then turn to this final frontier of space. The intellectual resources of roughly 10 billion educated people will be drawn on to make the breakthroughs in our understanding of physics needed to travel to star systems.

The World Economic Forum Principles on "Climate Governance on Corporate Boards": can soft law help to face climate change around the world?

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Sabrina Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Financial Factor ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Climate change is a financial factor that carries with it risks and opportunities for companies. To support boards of directors of companies belonging to all jurisdictions, the World Economic Forum issued in January 2019 eight Principlescontaining both theoretical and practical provisions on: climate accountability, competence, governance, management, disclosure and dialogue. The paper analyses each Principle to understand scope and managerial consequences for boards and to evaluate whether the legal distinctions, among the various jurisdictions, may undermine the application of the Principles or, by contrast, despite the differences the Principles may be a useful and effective guidance to drive boards' of directors' conduct around the world in handling climate change challenges. Five jurisdictions are taken into consideration for this comparative analysis: Europe (and UK), US, Australia, South Africa and Canada. The conclusion is that the WEF Principles, as soft law, is the best possible instrument to address boards of directors of worldwide companies, harmonise their conduct and effectively help facing such global emergency.

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