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    English 1102 10/29/2012 Types of love in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: In the play‚ “A Midsummer Nights Dream‚ by William Shakespeare‚ several examples of love’s association with a higher power are presented like Theseus arranging a marriage between himself and Hippolyta‚ Egeus choosing who Hermia should marry and the fairies who have the ability to control love in the Enchanted Forest.  There are many instances in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” where love is coerced from or foisted upon unwilling

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    In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare the central theme is the struggle of true love to develop and strengthen within the right characters. Hippolyta‚ the queen of the Amazon‚ is captured by Theseus‚ the Duke of Athens‚ in a war between their two kingdoms. Hippolyta is forced to marry to Theseus after her capture‚ but in the resolution Hippolyta decides she does truly love him. Hermia and Lysander also face difficulties with their relationship due to Puck’s mistake with the

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    In reading‚ "Romeo and Juliet‚" and‚ "A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚" we can find a number of similarities in the characters of both plays. The distinct differences in them are that in one‚ we have a humorous character (or characters) with a cheery ending and in the other; we have a tragic character/s with a moral flaw that will aid in his or her downfall. In an evaluation of their distinctions we can see how they both hold true to their intent on carrying the story forward on it’s meandering course

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    A Difficulties of Love In the drama "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" by William Shakespeare‚ it a great movie was discussed the difficulties of love‚ magic‚ the nature of dreams‚ and the relationship between the fantasy and reality that deal with lust‚ jealousy‚ and revenge in life and society. It a great drama movie makes the reader and everyone have a feeling about the romantic‚ comedic‚ fantastic‚ satirical‚ dreamlike‚ farcical‚ and joyful in life. The theme of difficult love is often explore through

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    War of Love The story‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ is a humourous yet romantic play that many audiences love to read/watch‚ written in a different style of writing than the modern time writing we use. A complex theme in the A Midsummer Night’s Dream is love. With many different views on love‚ it makes the A Midsummer Night’s Dream story more interesting due to the many different points of view the story gives out with the theme‚ love. Through the course of the play the

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    A Midsummer Nights Dream I am writing my essay on A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare and I am going to focus on the relationships and how they change and evolve throughout the play. In A Midsummer Nights Dream there are several groups of characters that all get entangled throughout the play. They are the mechanicals‚ the fairies‚ the Athenian court and the lovers. Each group is mixed with another group sometime in the play. The fairies are the creatures who live in the forest and

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Acts IV and V Reading Questions ACT 4 Scene 1 1. Is Bottom as an ass any different from Bottom as a man? a. Yes‚ because he feels hairy and itchy. 2. What has happened to the changeling child? b. They ask for hay to eat but when Titania gives him nuts he criticizes them. 3. Once her vision has been cleared‚ what is Titania’s response to Bottom? c. She is madly in love with him. 4. How does Demetrius explain the return of his love

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    Midsummer Nights Dream In WIlliam shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer NIght’s Dream”. Lysander and Hermia and Demetrius and Helena both experience the course of love not running smoothly. Some of the characters have problems in their love lives.There is a love triangle going on with these four people. Love is defined in the dictionary as an intense feeling of deep affection but in this play ‚they have weird problems going on. “A Midsummer NIght’s Dream” is mostly a romantic play about love struck

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    0 WORKSHEET 10: A Midsummer Night’s Dream QUESTIONS 1. The play has some important ramifications. To begin with‚ the events that take place in Acts II and III in woodland and summer moonlight give the play its name. As we can see‚ the world of magic and the world of the dreams are very important and they belong to a mixture of magic and reality that appears through the whole play. Since the events which happen in the moonlight are just a dream‚ just part of the magic world far from the real world

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    Confusion of Dreams You are falling faster and faster through the pale blue sky with no parachute and nothing to grab on to. The shards of rock below seem to get sharper and sharper as a wave of terror and hopelessness takes over. You are just moments away from certain death when all of the sudden you wake up and realize it was all a dream. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ he uses the power of dreams to construct the possibility of an alternate reality. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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