med. 10

Life is a Dream is definitely one of the better plays I’ve read this year. I don’t think it’s a good comparison to Shakespeare or anything, but I do think it is a good comparison to some of the Greek tragedies we read in terms of dialogue and the overall feeling that things are not going to turn out well by the end of the play. Luckily, I was wrong. I liked that Segismund decides to not avenge his father at the end of the play. The play reminded me of Amphitryon in that both Amphitryon and Life is a Dream are putting their characters in dreams even though they believe it to be real. All of the deception and scheming were also very reminiscent of the Greek tragedies that the class has read this year. This is one of the special plays where a person dwells on it for a long while after they read it. I know I found myself wondering if life really could be a dream.