The Dream Deferred – A Comparison Kristy Andrews Axia College of University of Phoenix In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun‚ the author reveals a hard-working‚ honest African-American family struggling to make their dreams come true. Langston Hughes’ poem‚ Harlem‚ illustrates what could happen if those dreams never came to fruition. Together‚ both Hansberry and Hughes show the effects on human beings when a long-awaited dream is thwarted by economic and social hardships. Each of
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Usually‚ when a movie is made about a story in a book or a play‚ the two stories are not exactly the same. The movie tends to add small details or leave some out in order to meet time limits and to make the story what they think will be more interesting. Such is the case with Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The movie starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close left out and even added things that were not originally in the play. When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet he did not write in a scene depicting the funeral
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Perseus Story Comparison There are many similarities and differences between the original Clash of the Titans movie and the book. One similarity is that he slayed medusa‚ however in the story medusa is sleeping when he killed her and in the movie she is awake. Also‚ in both the movie and the book Perseus goes to Jappa although in the story Hermes helped him and in the movie a man named Amon helped him. In the book Cassiopeia compares Andromeda to the Nereids‚ but in the movie she is compared to
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what their father or husband would say. Since Shakespearean comedies such as Much Ado about Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ he began to show the different gender roles and how they would be changing. He brought up questions within his comedies‚ questions that people might have been asking themselves but might have been too afraid to ask. In Much Ado about Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s dream‚ Shakespeare opened a different view and perspective on people in their societal roles‚ such as their
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beings within the play in order to express the overall message. Shakespeare’s extensive use of imagery further demonstrates his conveyance of the surreal nature within the play. In "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"‚ Shakespeare uses the mechanicals to differentiate the reality from the dream‚ while his use of imagination and fairies leads to the lovers’ transformation which demonstrates how naive the Athenian youths are. The mechanicals served as a barrier between the worlds of dream and the reality.
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Johnny Depp before in movies like Alice in Wonderland (2010)‚ Sleepy Hallow (1999)‚ and my favorite‚ Edward Scissorhands (1990). However‚ the director did a great job making the film very creative and colorful for the most important viewers for this movie‚ which are children. The outside of the factory looked old and rusty‚ but once the four children went inside it was like another world. There was a river and fall made out of chocolate‚ which was how he mixed his chocolate in his chocolate room. Not
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can become an addict to love and act irrationally‚ just like the effects of a drug addiction. In the Elizabethan era romantic comedy‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ William Shakespeare reveals with a motif of the magic of a special violet flower the effects of love make people irrational‚ and can happen to anyone. Love has effects that make one irrational. The play shows several times with the magical effects of two different flowers how irrational love can make people. The characters under the effects
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In the play‚ A Midsummer’s Night Dream‚ there were a couple instances where the three worlds collided. Shakespeare has included the worlds of the supernatural (fairies)‚ the ruling class (nobles)‚ and the working class (the Mechanicals). During the play‚ he has made all three worlds intersect and converge; interacting and often causing chaos and disorder between the worlds. For example‚ when Oberon demanded Puck to obtain the flower‚ to which he will use on Titania‚ he had oversaw a conflict between
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Throughout the history of books‚ plays‚ and stories as a whole‚ competition over a boy or a girl is a very common element that even occurs in real life. The aspect of this competition provides parallels between two characters‚ entailing drama‚ humor‚ and interesting themes to the story. A perfect example of this element is within William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The two main women of the story‚ Hermia and Helena‚ compete over boys in the story‚ and that‚ as well as their different
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The timeless tale of Romeo and Juliet has been told again and again; the similarities and differences between the films are endless. Two movies were made based on the classic love story‚ Romeo and Juliet. The first movie was made in 1968 and the second was a much more modern remake of the classic tale which was made in 1996. These movies told the romance in similar‚ but still in different ways. Both movies can be easily compared and differentiated because they were both alike and different at different
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