Moving Pictures: Music Choice

Purity Ring - Push Pull

''You were young and you'd stare

With a reverence unimpaired

There was an echo far and faint

Beneath the air remained

You were young and you'd stare

Where my limbs hung far and fair

Make a ladder of what folds

And climb up in me

You push and you pull and you tell yourself no

It's like when you lie down, the veins grow in slow

You push and you pull

But you'd never know

I crept up in you and I

Wouldn't let go''

What themes/motifs/sybols/atmosphere do the lyrics in this song have in common with Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream?

The lyrics in this song link to the text I chose to focus from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare. The themes- love, confusion and magic; Loves Difficulty/Love out of Balance, Magic/fairies/love potion/supernatural power of love/surreal world, Dreams/events occurring without explanation/fantastical experience. Motif: Contrasts; groups of opposites and doubles - the juxtaposition in this song - push pull completely embodies this! Symbols: the love potion – symbol of the unreasoning, fickle, erratic power of love, Theseus and Hippolyta- represent order and stability and rationality; all themes enforced throughout this song!

I wanted love, lust and its irrationality and indecisiveness will also be focused on in the music and I think with this song I managed that. The music and instrumental help to enforce these themes too with the precussion and effects itself sounding surreal and magical due to the high notes and metallic sounds.