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    Inflated ego and the fool are both revealed by Nick Bottom. For example‚ in Act One‚ Scene two‚ Bottom repeatedly exaggerates how he is “such a good actor” and thinks he can play all the roles‚ pshhh. Bottom is also ‘the fool’ in A Midsummer Night’s dream; this is shown by Bottoms language and hyperbole‚ this is legit him‚ “If I do it‚ let the audience look to their eyes‚ I will move storms” (1.2.20)‚ huh‚ what a fool. Dramatic irony and pun is also employed‚ when Titania

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    stated earlier in this essay‚ Act 3 Scene 4 exposes in Twelfth Night‚ as in numerous other plays by Shakespeare‚ a number of comparisons between an upper cast of characters‚ such as the masters and nobles‚ with a lower cast of characters‚ such as the servants. The way these set of characters are parallel in the plot implements a comic contradiction which may be further reinforced through the costumes these characters wear. Twelfth Night was a popular Holiday that happened every January 6th as a festival

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Title in Detail The title is the first thing you see on any type of media‚ in the moment‚ when you first read those all-important words; you are given your very first impression of what lies ahead. Your mind decides either “I don’t think I am going to like this very much” or “Yes! I am going to love this”. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is just one of his passionate plays. The title serves as a crucial aspect of the play. It gives a look into some

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    CHARACTER TRAIT 1 PARAGRAPH Whatever Helena sees or hears always has something to do with herself in her eyes‚ that’s how the world is like a mirror to her. Helena proves herself to be self absorbed more than once throughout the play. During her soliliquy; in act one‚ scene one; Helena explains what she plans to do with the new information that has come to light. This information being that Hermia and Lysander were going to run away together. Her plan is to “...go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight”

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    A Midsummers night dream Characterisation: One of the biggest things I needed to change about myself in order to portray my character as Helena I needed to change the way in which I spoke‚ due to her being a naturally whiney person I needed to over exaggerate everything I said. This involved making my body language over dramatic. These elements alone create an effect in which makes the character cringy. Due to the synopsis of the play and the situations within it my character stands out a lot

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    falls in love with Jack. Rose’s mother and Caledon try desperately to keep Jack and Rose apart. That plan goes out the window when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. Jack and Rose struggle to survive as the ship goes down. In "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"‚ Thesues is set to marry Hippolyta when he is asked to settle a dispute between a father and a daughter. Egues arranges for a marriage between his daughter Hermia to Demetrius‚ who instead loves Lysander.

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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 A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is a play that mainly revolves around two important things‚ mischief and love. Puck‚ one of the main characters is very mischievous with the other characters in the play. One group Puck is mischievous towards are the mechanicals. Puck turns Bottom into an ass. He also interacted with the fairies. He made Titania fall in love with Bottom‚ and as to the young lovers Puck made Helena think she was being mocked. Puck and his

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    The passage I chose was from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. In this passage‚ Lysander falls in love with Helena after being accidentally struck with the love juice by Puck. However‚ Helena does not interpret it the same way and thinks that Lysander is mocking her and leaves. Then‚ Lysander says that he never wants to see Hermia again and leaves her alone while she is sleeping. Hermia awakes from a nightmare where her heart was being eaten out by a serpent and Lysander stood‚ smiled

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    The Plantagenets are the perfect example of a dysfunctional family and the more you read into the play the more it is shown. Firstly the roots to a happy and healthy family are from the relationship with the parents and in no case does Henry and Eleanor have a healthy relationship. With Eleanor being sent away for several years Henry chose apon himself to have a mistress whom is Alais‚ in which is the girl that him and Eleanor rose since she was a child. With Henry having a mistress it causes many

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