CHARECTERISTIC FEATURES OF ROMANTIC COMEDIES BY SHAKESPEARE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PLAY A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM. HARMONY OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS:Shakespears’ romantic comedies vividly display true comic scenes with every humor and predominant hilariousness. They are rich with subtlety‚ humour and romance. There is a wonderful harmony of plot and character. His large hearted sympathy and tolerance bring about a soothing influence and congenial atmosphere in comedies. Everything fits well and
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In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” every character has a defined role and some characters have come to depend on one another. Oberon‚ the fairy king‚ and Robin Goodfellow depend on each other to accomplish their roles in the play‚ as do Peter Quince and Nick Bottom. Robin’s role in the play is being the minion of Oberon. He accepts he is Oberon’s minion when he states‚ “I jest to Oberon and make him smile”(2.1.46). When Oberon sends him to run his errands he accepts without complaint‚ “I go‚ I go
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I chose to write about metaphors. The three topics that I’ve picked are Allusions‚ Dream Motif and Romantic Comedy. The first topic that I’ve picked are allusions.Metaphors are compared in this story shown in movies or plays today that can give an allusion of the real play.My first example is “To you your father should be as a god” says Theseus to Hermia in act one scene one. It is an allusion because he compares her father to a god. It uses metaphors because he is comparing two unlike things
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Pyramus and Thisbe offers a very subtle return to a couple of the main elements of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: lovers caught up in misunderstanding and sorrow enhanced by the darkness of night. Like the main story of the outer play‚ the inner play consists of a tragic premise made comical by the actors. The craftsmen’s unintentionally goofy portrayal of the woe of Pyramus and Thisbe makes the melodramatic romantic entanglements of the young Athenian lovers seem even more comical. However‚ it is important
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widow makes her stepson wait to get his inheritance. | 10 | HIPPOLYTA Four days will quickly steep themselves in night.Four nights will quickly dream away the time.And then the moon‚ like to a silver bowNew bent in heaven‚ shall behold the nightOf our solemnities. | HIPPOLYTA No‚ you’ll see‚ four days will quickly turn into four nights. And since we dream at night‚ time passes quickly then. Finally the new moon‚ curved like a silver bow in the sky‚ will look down on our wedding celebration.
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play A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1595. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play of four lovers who were entangled in a flower potion that caused the “victim” to fall in love with the first thing they saw after they awakened. By the final scene of the play‚ the lovers are reunited with their original partners‚ thus creating a joyous ending for all. Throughout this work of Shakespeare’s‚ multiple elements of comedy are evident. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare portrays insult comedy in various
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plays‚ one of which was A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Unlike some of his other plays‚ such as Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream is comedic and has a happy ending. Alas‚ Shakespeare can only be so nice. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is full of many burns and insults from one character to another. Shakespeare shows many examples of comedy‚ but a big one is insult comedy‚ of which he shows many examples of within the script. Insult comedy is a form of comedy in which one person taunts
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Gelsix Delgado EN110-44 7/6/14 Professor Saporito “A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Think with the Heart and not with the Mind” In “Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare; Helena describes the undying love that she feels for Demetrius and can’t understand why he does not reciprocate the same. Helena envies her friend Hermia’s and Lysander’s happiness and wishes that she had the same with Demetrius. Although everyone in Athens believes that she is just as pretty as Hermia; Demetrius does not
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Explain your reading of the opening act of ‘A Midsummers Night Dream’ written by William Shakespeare: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Written by influential and iconic playwright and actor William Shakespeare during the Elizabethan Era uses Ideas including men’s domination over women‚ finding oneself and the moon‚ the use of language called Shakespearean and general Shakespeare conventions used in his plays ‚ the readers own values and attitudes and life experiences‚ texts the reader has also read
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unlike other lawyers‚ he will defend any innocent man he is appointed to without hesitation and with every bit of effort he has with justice in his mind and heart. He even defends a black man‚ Tom Robinson‚ a negro accused of rape. Back in the 1930’s‚ a white man defending a black man literally a crime which no ordinary lawyer would dare to do aware of the consequences. During the case‚ Atticus proves that Tom is innocent‚ but due to being black‚ Tom loses be default and is sent to jail. Atticus
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