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    Love Gone Wrong Thanks to Fairies The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smoothly Love Gone Wrong Thanks to Fairies The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smoothly This Midsummer’s day there was a lot conflict in the fairy world‚ Queen Titania and King Oberon fighting over a changeling child and many other lovers disrupted in this fuss. Not long ago Titania‚ Queen of Fairyland‚ adopted a changeling child‚ she loved him and didn’t want to give him up‚ so when Oberon‚ King of Fairyland‚ decided

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    Austin Green-Paxton TDA-English 4A 6/10/13 A Midsummer Night’s Dream A and B) THESEUS‚ Duke of Athens: Engaged to Hippolyta. Theseus represents power and order throughout the course of the play. He appears only at the beginning and end of the story‚ and seems to be removed from the dreamlike events of the forest. EGEUS‚ Father to Hermia: Egeus has given Demetrius permission to marry Hermia‚ but Hermia‚ who’s in love with Lysander‚ refuses to marry Demetrius. Egeus’s insists that

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    Love and Midsummer Night

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    to fulfillment of desire In A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is the one thing that that can give fulfillment of desire. Henry V has barriers to fulfill the desire of his people and to keep bringing them peace and happiness. The barriers that I see to fulfillment of desire in Othello are the struggle that Othello and Desdemona are in a mixed relationship. Conventions of courtship The form of courtship that I am able to see in A Midsummer Night’s Dream called for the man that was attracted

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    Grace Kim 11/12/13 English 10H Mrs. Conetta Close Reading Questions for “I Have a Dream” 1. In the second paragraph‚ King alludes to Abraham Lincoln but never mentions him by name. What words and phrases does he use to suggest Lincoln’s legacy? Why does he invoke Lincoln’s legacy at this time? The words and phrases he uses to suggest Lincoln’s legacy are Emancipation Proclamation‚ segregation and discrimination‚ and five score years ago. He invokes Lincoln’s legacy at

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    r Crystin Johnson Mr. Kelley English 102 3 Apr. 2013 Theseus: the Duke of Athens In A MidsummerNight’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ Theseus is the duke of Athens. Theseus is perceived as a wise ruler. He has recently defeated Hippolyta’s land. He is madly in love with Hippolyta. Recently‚ they become engaged. The play is centered around their wedding. Shakespeare uses Theseus to show the difference between a perfect ruler and a ruler who lacks power and does not possess the ability

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    Close Reading: Shakespeare `Julius Caesar` III. 2 lines 11- 48 (Brutus) Julius Caesar is an historical tragedy‚ written by Shakespeare in 1599. Set in ancient Rome it depicts the rise and fall of an emperor and a time of vast political change. Presenting a tale of manipulation and a struggle for power Shakespeare uses the uses the art of the orator and rhetoric to describe key moments in Rome’s history. Structurally central to the play is Act III‚ scene 2‚ as it is at this pivotal moment‚ after

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    Close Reading Paper: The Turtle Catcher For this assignment I will be analyzing this portion of writing from page 138 of The Turtle Catcher by Nicole Helmet. (For reference in the paper) “I got my enlistment papers today‚” said Lars. “Where’re yours?” Herman stopped smiling. He didn’t reply. “I said‚ Where are yours?” said Lars. “I won’t be going‚” Herman said. His voice was straight and calm though his heart thudded as hard as hooves in his throat. “You hear that‚ Cal?” Lars said to the other

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    The Raven: A Close Reading

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    The Raven: A Close Reading The entire poem including the first stanza‚ as scanned here‚ is octametre with mostly trochaic feet and some iams. The use of a longer line enables the poem to be more of a narration of the evening’s events. Also‚ it enables Poe to use internal rhymes as shown in bold. The internal rhyme occurs in the first and third lines of each stanza. As one reads the poem you begin to expect the next rhyme pushing you along. The external rhyme of the "or" sound in Lenore and nevermore

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    Midsummer Night's Dream

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    ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is Shakespeare’s most popular comedy‚ written in 1590. It portrays the adventure of four young Athenian lovers and a group of trades people‚ their interactions with the Duke of Athens‚ and Queen of the Amazons Theseus and Hippolyta‚ who are soon to be married and with fairies who inhabit the Athenian forest. Michael Hoffman’s 1999 reenactment of William Shakespeare’s classic tale ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ effectively and humorously depicts the collision between the

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    The Manipulation of Love A Midsummer Night’s Dream questions the difference between realities and dreaming from the title of the play to the woods to the love potion‚ while the play itself can be viewed as reality or dream. Dream and reality can be explored in many different contexts and constantly takes place in Acts 2 and 3. There are many instances throughout the play where the characters believe they are dreaming‚ but in reality the fairies put potions on the characters to try and pursue

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