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    How does Shakespeare present the theme of love in ’A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Throughout ’A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Shakespeare presents different types of love such as stable‚ unstable‚ unrequited‚ passionate‚ and forbidden between certain characters. Shakespeare manipulates the language to show these different aspects. Shakespeare conveys passionate love between Titania and Bottom in Act 4 Scene 1. This is evident when Titania tells Bottom "O‚ how I love thee! How I dote on thee!" This declaration

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    It is evident in the plays Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night’s Dream that Viola and Hermia have less control over their own lives because they are female. First‚ women cannot work certain jobs‚ even if they are qualified. Specifically‚ Viola is unable to work for Duke Orsino until she alters her appearance. After being shipwrecked‚ Viola talks to the captain and learns of Orsino and his love for Olivia. Then Viola decides to serve the duke and asks the captain to comply: Conceal me what I am‚ and

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    back to Shakespeare and not just our daily lives in 2018. The three loves stories of Hermia and Lysander‚ Titania and Bottom and Pyramus and Thisbe shows the reader that love is not always a given and sometimes you have to fight for it. In A Midsummer night dream‚ William Shakespeare shows us ways that something can get in the way of love. The first couple that falls in love is‚ Hermia and Lysander‚ even though something is stopping them they still fight for each other. For example‚ “Egeus: Full

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    In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Lysander and Demetrius change their feelings of love and promises for both Helena and Hermia. Shakespeare shows us how love is unpredictable and inconsistent with the changes of feelings and broken promises between the young lovers. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Lysander switches his love for both Hermia and Helena with changes of feelings of love and broken promises‚ showing how unpredictable and inconsistent love is. In the beginning of the play‚ Lysander is deeply

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Dakota Forsythe ENG2D1 Ms. Tuerk Tuesday‚ April 22nd A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies is generally thought of as a romantic comedy. The play involves a number of romantic components‚ it is not actually a love story; it distances the audience from the emotions of the characters in order to poke fun at the torments and afflictions that those in love suffer. Factors that make the play fit into the genre are the troubles of humans

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    What different views of love are presented by characters in acts 1 and 2 of the play and what do they reveal about the nature of love? From the very beginning shakespeare portrays the lovers as being out of balance and unharmonious‚ we as the audience want the harmony to be restored and two happy couples to be united for the sake of symmetry and happiness in the characters. The first couple introduced are Theseus and Hippolyta. Hippolyta was the queen of the Amazon and was defeated by Theseus

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    Kendall Grasela A Midsummer Night’s Dream Close Reading Mrs. Burnett A Midsummer Night’s Dream Analysis When Titania argues with Oberon about ownership of the Indian boy‚ their relationship is not only affected‚ but the society is affected negatively as well. The argument over the Indian boy causes major difficulties in the weather and seasons. Titania defying her gender role also causes problems because she is not obeying the demands of her husband whom she should. She “ha[s] forsworn his

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    4/14/13 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Response All of the Characters in the 1999 production of Shakespeare’s poem‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ were well played and showed thought-out preparation. Two characters that I liked the most and who were most vivid and well portrayed are Theseus and Helena. Puck‚ played by Stanley Tucci‚ was a very entertaining character but Stanley did not elaborate much with his character. Theseus‚ played by David Strathairn‚ is a character that was easy to follow. I

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    Many love connections are effected somehow either that person doing it to themselves‚ or someone else who mixes the love relationships up . Confusion within the love can cause misconception and turn into a disaster amongst each other. In Midsummer Nights Dream by Shakespeare the confusion of love relationships mixes up each persons views of one another‚ but in the end everyone is rejoined and the loves are once again in their right place. All confusion‚ reconciliation‚ and celebration are used in

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    The comedy in both Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lysistrata is portrayed through the comic characters suffering some pain. In Lysistrata the men were suffering from their wives refusing to have sexual relations until the war ends. Watching the men suffer physical pain over the sex strike brings more excitement and entertainment to the audience. Even now a days sexual content is considered humorous‚ especially when the men want it so much in this play but the women tease them and then refuse. Also whenever

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