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    LAR for A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare 1. Significance of Title: The significance of the title A Midsummer Night’s Dream is that there is a lot of supernatural intervention and effects in it. The weird and often unexplainable situations created by the supernatural are often explained by the characters saying that what happened was as a pleasant dream they experienced while they dosed off in the summer. 2. Information about the Book: This play was written by William Shakespeare

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    Contrast in Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is encompassed in the element of contrast in various ways. Contrast is so apparent that it could easily be labeled as a theme in the play. Contrast is important because it emphasizes aspects of a plot or character that may have otherwise been overlooked or understated. Furthermore‚ contrast contributes to prominent themes such as role confusion or the transformation. It is likely that Shakespeare acquired such masterful

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    A Difficulties of Love In the drama "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" by William Shakespeare‚ it a great movie was discussed the difficulties of love‚ magic‚ the nature of dreams‚ and the relationship between the fantasy and reality that deal with lust‚ jealousy‚ and revenge in life and society. It a great drama movie makes the reader and everyone have a feeling about the romantic‚ comedic‚ fantastic‚ satirical‚ dreamlike‚ farcical‚ and joyful in life. The theme of difficult love is often explore through

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream depicts the lunacy in love by warping tensions and the dream-like quality of love beneath the eyes of the dreamer to produce "rare visions" in which to learn from. The title of the play holds tremendous weight‚ as it depicts the passions of love through dreams‚ while emphasizing the relationship between the two. Dreams and love then become intertwined with one another and the similarities begin to become more apparent. Shakespeare brilliantly weaves the lives of the four

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    Reason and Love In the play a Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare‚ there are many lovers that are drawn to each other in various ways. One can fall in love at any age. The definition of love is a deep affection for someone or something. In the Shakespeare’s play the three pairs of lovers encounter issues where Oberon instructs Puck to sprinkle "love juice" on an Athenian man’s eyes. However‚ he did it to the wrong man‚ and the other lovers started turning on their loved ones

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    Close Reading: “The Stranger” By Albert Camus The opening of “The Stranger” Meursault is informed of his mother’s death. Meursault tells us: “I got a telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.” That doesn’t mean anything.” (page 3); a very strong statement to set the mood of this chapter. When he finished reading the telegram his first thought is: “That doesn’t mean anything.” this can give the reader the idea that Meursault is disconnected‚ cold‚ and perhaps

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    their own‚ but Shakespeare used the fairy world to show how society could move past these gender stereotypes. The gender roles switch for the most part in the fairy world‚ but even then there are still moments of male dominance. Throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare holds both genders at different standards and they are depicted in different ways‚ causing the two to influence and conflict with each other. Whether it’s Hermia and Demetrius or Hippolyta and Theseus‚ it was not necessary for

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    Reading allows for one to drift away from reality and opens a new door of an alternate fictional world. Once the reader has developed an emotional connection to the book and finds it intriguing‚ it is impractical to close the book. Reading allows a person to think creatively and take a break from life’s stresses and worries. Whether one is reading for pleasure or for academic reasons‚ if enjoyable‚ the difference should be indistinguishable. Gratifying books teach lessons and try to get the reader

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    Luke johnson Miss windish English 2 9 february 2017 Helena’s hunt for love In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream there is a lot of love almost to much to go around. The characters in this book go through a lot of things dealing with love. People’s emotions in the book get messed with by Oberon and Puck/Robin Goodfellow. Oberon is the king of the fairies and puck is his servant. The drama throughout the play creates many problems for the characters. One of the main characters that’s

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    Drew Hombach 3-11-13 LA P7 Women’s Roles The female characters in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” are divergent compared to actual women in Shakespeare’s time. There were some similarities though‚ like the fact that Egeus wants Hermia to get married to Demetrius even though she doesn’t want to. Back then‚ women usually didn’t have a say in who they married because the father would usually pick a man who would offer the father the best gift. The play didn’t really touch on wether or not the females

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