Music

Song: Jai Ho- A.Rahman

 

This really reminded me of my book, because first of all, and probably most apparently the song is about love in it’s purest and truest of forms. At first it may be difficult to find, but if you do find the translation of the song it is basically about love, a heart beating with passion, and living your life like theirs no tomorrow, which I also think correlates with the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dreams. All the lovers of the story are a bit rash and seem to think with their passion and their heart instead of with their higher intellect, but I think that this really gives the story a sort edgyness and fun. This was very apparent in their quick, passion-fueled decision to run into the forest and get married.

I also think that the drums and beat sort of reminds me of the chase between the four lovers, Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, and Helena. It seems until the very end of the book, when Puck solves the whole love triangle problem with his magic dust, that not all of them will ever be happy with their current romantic standing, whether it’s Hermia being in love with Lysander and having to fight against the will of her father who wishes her to marry Demetrius, or if it’s Helena, following Demetrius, and madly in love. Their love triangle reminds me of a dance between friends and lovers. The song also does have a sort of “dreamy” quality to it, which not only is similar to the name of the book, but also to the sort of “dreamy” scenes and text, when the lovers are in the forest, and when the story revolves around Titania and Oberon’s lair and their fairy dreams.

The title of the song also means “hail!” in Hindi. This sort of reminded me that throughout the book, the recurring theme of royalty in both Oberon and Titania’s kingdom and the Theseus and Hippolyta which is basically the main setting of the play also. I mean without Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding, none of the story would have happened.