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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream has a tangled mess of love. Whether the love be between Hermia and Lysander or between Lysander and Helena‚ all of this is very confusing. I can relate to all this confusion in my life being in high school. A Midsummer Night’s Dream relates to my life by the confusion of love. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Lysander loves Hermia and she loves him back. Helena is in love with Demetrius‚ who wants nothing to do with her. This soon changes because of Robin’s mistake. Now Lysander

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    famous playwright‚ William Shakespeare. In both Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare exhibits how love can control a person. To understand how love controls a person‚ one must understand that human nature is the sum of qualities and traits shared by all humans. All humans have exhibit love in one way or another‚ which explains how human nature relates to the controlling aspect of love. In Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ conflicts between loyalty to family and friends‚ lack of trustworthiness

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    Just as society and human-beings in general‚ the female gender is incredibly diverse. 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

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    In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ there are many mentions of multiple worlds coexisting. There is the human world‚ which all beings can observe‚ and the fairy world‚ which can only be seen by fairies. This could mean that fairies are beings that can observe other dimensions that humans cannot perceive. Perhaps also‚ it suggests that there are multiple worlds‚ one in which humans live with no magic‚ and a world of fairies‚ in which magic is abundant. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream the fairies are invisible

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    worldwide and was awarded “Best Fiction Corine International Award” in 2002. It follows a story of a boy named Santiago who is following his personal legend. The Alchemist has many archetypal themes and symbols including wise old men‚ women‚ and the nature around him. Throughout this novel‚ Coelho uses archetypal men. The men he uses are the Alchemist‚ his father‚ and the King of Salem. Wise old men symbolize the ‘savior’‚ ‘redeemer’‚ and the ‘guru’. The first of the three wise men that Santiago

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     but it is the journey that matters in  the end‚”(Ursula K. LeGuin). One of my biggest journeys  in life is when I started to play  badminton. My personal experiences‚ and my experiences with others and the world  reflect three of the first five stages of the archetypal journey. My journey starts with the  ordinary world‚ the call to adventure‚ and the meeting of the mentor.     Experiences in my ordinary world have shaped my beliefs and understandings of  the ordinary world. The ordinary world is the beginning of the hero’s journey

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    unlike many tend to believe‚ Shakespeare parodies love rather than romanticizes it. Many of his plays are full of satire against love‚ one example being his comedic play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ which follows the adventures in love between a group of young Athenians‚ a foolish man-turned-animal‚ and a fairy queen. It is in Midsummer that Shakespeare

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    In the article “”Roofie” Reality: Drink Spiking Effects Many College Students” by Sarah G. Miller and the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare display similar aspects in both the article and the play. The authors use these details in their works to reveal the themes openly to its readers. In Shakespeare’s play‚ Titania’s love for Bottom can be compared to “roofie” cases in college students as the cause of manipulation from drugging and influencing the victims‚ the occurrence of it

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    A comical interlude is a part in a play where there is a break from the main plotline and is a chance for the audience and actors to relax. Some may argue that the final scene in ‘A Midsummer Night’s dream’ is only a comical interlude and nothing more as it does not relate to the main story directly. However‚ I would argue against this and say that the last scene is written by Shakespeare as a clever way of showing the audience what might have happened to the lovers. Also‚ a common convention of

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    the same validity as my handwritten signature.   Student’s signature (name typed here is equivalent to a signature):  ___Ahmad Frank Safieh ________________________ ___ Option #1 Battle of the Sexes In Shakespeare’s play titled A Midsummer Nights Dream‚ there are a few underlying themes throughout the play. The one I will be focusing on is the battle of the sexes that occurs in the play between the couples in the fairy world‚ and in the “real world.” We see unusual styles of courting women

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