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    24 October 2007 Desperation The movieNight Crossing portrays an East German family about the year of 1978. This was right after they stopped allowing East Germans to travel freely back and forth East and West Germany. This is just one more of the acts furthering the restrictions placed on East Germans. Others included requesting visas to leave the East and being constantly in fear that a spy would report them to the SS for being “unpatriotic” when found even speaking about other ideas‚ or

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    they do not let anything come in between them while other times their bond is weak and easily broken. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is portrayed in many different ways from Helena to Demetrius‚ Lysander to Hermia‚ and Oberon to Titania.     The link between Helena and Demetrius is very transparent‚ he once loved her while she still loves him. Inside the text of A Midsummer Night’s Dream we read many references to a past in which Helena and Demetrius once loved each other. As the story progresses

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    dominated by men. The women of the Elizabethan Era were of course‚ no exception. In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”‚ Shakespeare created a character that had the backbone to defy this unfair system. She was Hermia‚ a feminist who risked stakes higher than her life to protect her right to love and live by her own will. The sexist values of that time were plainly displayed in the very first scene of the play through the words of two men that exercised the most authority over Hermia—Egeus‚ her father

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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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    someone calling themselves a dog. Well there is one person whose name is Helena. Yes‚ Not only does does Helena act like a dog‚ but she herself calls her a dog as well. Let’s just say she has a lot to do with love‚ especially in the story A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Helena often tends to make love a little more complicated throughout this stories in more ways than one. She is in love with Demetrius‚ who does not carry that same love for her. Hermia‚ her best friend does not love

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    In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ by William Shakespeare‚ a character named Oberon tells a character named Puck to put a love potion in the Athenian man eye. Unbeknownst to them‚ there were two Athenian men in the forest at the time: Lysander and Demetrius. Puck then puts the potion in the eyes of the wrong man--Lysander. The potion makes someone fall in love with someone and this has caused anger between Demetrius‚ Helena ‚ Hermia‚ and Lysander. Why was it called a love potion? The potion

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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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    and analyze the characters (Jenson‚ Web.2017). As we know Freud deeply studied the concept how thru analyze of the dreams we can understand behavior. We clearly can see the connection between Freud’s theory and Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. In this play the subjects and themes are very close to those establish in some psychoanalytic theories: social interaction‚ dreams‚ defense mechanism and anxious behavior. For an example in character of Lady Macbeth‚ Shakespeare touches multiple

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    William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream demonstrates various headstrong women whom were restrained by their society in some form. Despite these restricting circumstances these determined females fought for what they truly desired. Against all odds they stood firm and took a stand in the name of true love. Having fallen madly in love with Lysander‚ Hermia was determined to one day become his bride. But exhibiting disregard for her emotions‚ Egeus had alternate plans for his daughter.

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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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