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Contrast Midsummer Night’s Dream’s comic plot with Oedipus Rex or Antigone. How do these two types of plot contrast in their perspectives on the human condition?
- Comedies treat the human condition in its small-scale conflicts and quarrels, deceptions and blunders, and usually resolve them. Tragedies present the big conflicts in human life. Contrast Midsummer Night’s Dream’s comic plot with Oedipus Rex or Antigone. How do these two types of plot contrast in their perspectives on the human condition?