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    different avenues to create comic affect in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. First‚ with the use of his main character’s love triangle and the intermingling of the fairies. For instance‚ starting in act two Oberon gives Puck the task of helping Helena by applying a love potion on Demetrius’s eyes. Unfortunately‚ Puck accidently applies the potion to Lysander‚ which causes an array of hilarious confusion. This confusion turns into arguments and funny antics between the four humans. At the beginning‚ the triangle

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    Svetlana Sidorova Professor Grossman Eng 201-534 October 19‚ 2012 In “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” Delmore Schwartz works with themes illusion‚ status and changes. He does this through mother‚ father and light. Schwartz is saying that most of the people are infantile and weak because they cannot accept the reality of life. Through the mother‚ we see that dreaming may lead to a painful disappointment. The mother has an unrealistic image of her and her future husband as an idyllic‚ respectable

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    Midsummer Night’s Dream “A midsummer night’s dream is a comedy by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens‚ Theseus‚ and the Queen of the Amazons‚ Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors‚ who are manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. ”(Wikipedia‚ A midsummer night’s dream) Many of the main

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    or depending on your age. Love can be temporary‚ infatuation‚ or it can be forever‚ true love. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ love is displayed at all level. Regardless of the age‚ views of society‚ traditional oppositions against it‚ or how crazy it makes lovers‚ Shakespeare displays the idea that true love always wins. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare uses various different ways to show his ideal that true love always wins. One of his main ideas is that no matter what

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    In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy of the ups and downs that the characters in the play experience in love. “The course of true love never did run smooth‚” said Lysander‚ love in the play is showed as changeable or inconstant‚ it is constantly changing for who loves who‚ and love and hate between characters (1.1.134). A Midsummer Night’s Dream is based around inconstant love some mainly due from Puck the fairy who causes mischief‚ and examples of inconstant love throughout the relationship

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    I am Kaitlyn Luepann and I am portraying the fairy attendants Peaseblossom‚ Bottom‚ Cobweb‚ and the “jester fairy” Puck From William Shakespeare’s play‚ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” I will be portraying all these characters as one character with characteristics of all four. The ways I am going to adapt the characters that I am portraying are for me to have a witty sense of humour‚ yet have common courtesy and manners‚ and have respectful body language and a humourous tone of voice because the three

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream ACT I SUMMARY: A Midsummer Night’s Dream ACT I starts with Theseus starts to discuss with Hippolyta their wedding that is going to occur in four days. Then Egeus enters with Hermia‚ Lysander‚ and Demetrius. Egeus claims that his daughter Hermia is to marry Demetrius‚ but that Lysander has cast a “magic spell” over her‚ making her fall in love with him. He asks Theseus‚ the duke‚ if he can practice his right as a father and have her either marry Demetrius or have her

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    Funny Boy‚ a novel by Shyam Selvadurai‚ tells us a story through the eyes of a growing Tamil homosexual boy‚ Arjie. By using a first person narrator‚ Selvadurai vividly describes Arjie¡¯s struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala-dominated Colombo. Besides‚ the horrible ethnic violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka was also highlighted throughout the novel. Selvadurai developed the theme of ethnic violence by telling various incidents and facts through the narrator of Arjie‚ beginning with

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    Why is Love Making Me Mad? In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Love is the running theme. As such it takes on many different forms and characteristics like extreme wanting‚ over protection and true love. Each character runs through the emotion called love in the own very unique way. Take extreme wanting for instance; Helena is going through this for her love of Demetrius. She wants him so bad it borders the line of being a stalker‚ which is not a good thing because Demetrius has

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    A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM SUMMARY This play is a love story that is split between four sets of lovers; Hippolyta and Theseus‚ Hermia and Lysander‚ Helena and Demetrius and Titania and Oberon. The story begins with a distraught father‚ Egeus‚ asking the Duke‚ Thesus‚ to bring the law upon his daughter ’s‚ Hermia’s‚ head. His request is made because he wants her to marry Demetrius and she has disobeyed him by seeing Lysander in secret. The Duke gives Hermia up to the day of his wedding to decide to

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