6. the play within a play _______ the melo-dramatic Athenian lovers and gives the play a purely joyful‚ comedic ending. 7. Shakespeare recreates the atmosphere\environment of a dream through all of the following EXCEPT. a. Bottom’s head is turned into an ass’s C. Lysander falls madly in love with Helena. b. Egeus demands that Hermia marries Demetrius. D. Titania falls in love with the ass-headed Bottom 8. The tone of the play is A sad
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows the basic structure and pattern of a Shakespearean comedy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows this pattern because Elizabethans expected it. The template of a Shakespearean comedy contained love as its central theme‚ clever use of language and magic. The prime theme of a Shakespearean comedy is love. There are many types of love including forced love‚ induced love and true love. True lovers in Shakespearean comedies often have to face things that block them from
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Contrast In Human Mentality The Play: "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"‚ by William Shakespeare offers a wonderful contrast in human mentality. Shakespeare provides insight into man’s conflict with the rational versus the emotional characteristics of our behavior through his settings. The rational‚ logical side is represented by Athens‚ with its flourishing government and society. The wilder emotional side is represented by the fairy woods. Here things do not make sense
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Topic: Midnights summer nights dream A mid-summer nights dream takes places in Athens‚ Greece. Theseus the duke of Athens is planning his marriage with hipolita‚ and as result he is planning a large festival. Egeus enters‚ followed by his daughter Hermia‚ her beloved Lysander and Demetrius. Egeus tells Theseus that Hermia must marry Demetrius not Lysander (as she wants). He asks Theseus to punish Hermia with death is she refuse to obey. Theseus agrees that Hermia duty is to obey her father
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Midsummer’s Night Dream. Almost in every play of Shakespeare we can see the dominance of males over women. In his plays women have no right to say what they think or what they want. They are always expected to be faithful to their fathers and husbands. They don’t have any freedom about their lives. However we know that this attitude of men against women in Shakespeare’s plays is a reflection of Renaissance society. We can see the most remarkable examples of male dominance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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either positive or negative. There are many obstacles in a relationship‚ as they might change out-of-the-blue and things do not go as planned. For this reason‚ an indispensable element to any healthy relationship is flexibility. In A Midsummer’s Night Dream‚ William Shakespeare presents falling in love as effortless‚ yet it is associated with many challenges after someone falls in love. He invariably proves that love is unpredictable by using mythical creatures and potions. Love is unpredictable as
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There have been‚ throughout time‚ countless new versions of William´s Shakespeare “Romeo and Juliet”: Nevertheless‚ Baz Lurhmann directed a very modern version of this famous play‚ replacing daggers by guns and horses by cars‚ and even more. The main reason and advantage of the modernization of certain scenes is to lead to a clearer meaning and a better understanding of the story. First‚ the director emphasized the situation or the feelings of the characters by using modern means such as fireworks
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Some people depict women as soft‚ powerless‚ naïve‚ and somewhat “inferior” to men. While I don’t necessarily agree with those assumptions‚ Shakespeare is known for writing plays that often exaggerate those traits. But‚ it seems as if he avoided gaining comfort within that specific style of writing in A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ deciding to give the female characters a bit of superiority. This sense of power (by Hermia & Helena for example) was often shown through determination and rebelliousness
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Stephanie Fetters Response to Literature Honors English 12 Ms. McCuiston A Mid Summer Night Dream by William Shakespear There are several different charactors in A Mid Summer Night Dream. There is Puck‚ he was one of the fairies with the love potion. Nick Bottom was a man in town who always thought that he was the best part for the plays going on in town. Helena is in more of the dramatic scenes in the play. She has two men basically fighting for her love. Oberon is the king of the fairies
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A major theme of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is the treatment of women. Shakespeare wrote the play in the late 1500’s‚ when women did not have any power. Throughout the play‚ there is evidence that men treat a woman as property and as objects. The female characters are Hermia‚ Helena‚ Titania‚ and Hippolyta. The female characters have different roles and beliefs in the play. The theme of treatment of women in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is significant because of the affects laws
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