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    Good afternoon‚ I wanted to thank you for picking me for the role of Tatania in A Midsummer Night Dream; however‚ the image you betray her as‚ needs to improve. Tatania is a strong‚ independent woman – not the soft-spoken feeble girl. In act two‚ scene one‚ when Tatania and Oberon argue about who should have the ownership of the changeling boy‚ Tatania sticks to her opinions of having the boy “…Not for thy fairy kingdom. —Fairies‚ away! We shall chide downright‚ if I longer stay… ”. She threatens

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    Types of Love Represented in “A Midsummer Nights Dream” In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ as in many of Shakespeare’s plays the main theme is love. Shakespeare presents many different aspects of love in the play. He shows how love can affect your vision of reality and make you behave in irrational ways. He presents many ways in which your behavior is affected by the different types and aspects of love. The main types of love he presents are; true love‚ unrequited love‚ sisterly love‚ jealous love‚ forced

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    "There are some men who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us"‚ (pg. 288). To Kill A Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee. You may categorize these distinct individuals under the column of people who we know as archetypes. Archetypes are people who are role models‚ leaders‚ captains‚ and the best at what they do. The archetype focused on in this novel is Atticus Finch‚ the archetypal lawyer who in incomparable to any other ordinary lawyer. The reason why Atticus is the archetypal lawyer is because he

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    Gender Roles in Shakespeare It is a peculiar feature of Shakespeare’s plays that they both participate in and reflect the ideas of gender roles in Western society. To the extent that they reflect existing notions about the ’proper’ roles of men and women‚ they can be said to be a product of their society. However‚ since they have been studied‚ performed‚ and taught for five hundred years‚ they may be seen as formative of contemporary notions about the relationships between males

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    A Midsummer Night Dream is a play written by the late William Shakespeare. This play is about a love triangle how one loves the other when the other does not like them until finally it all ends in a resolution‚ as they have a secret fairy world looking over at them‚ this play is almost like a mix between the fantasy world and the real! Bottom is one of the characters in this play‚ and in this play Bottom is a humorous and confident character‚ although being intelligent in other fields Bottom is not

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    In Shakespeare’s "a Midsummer Nights Dream" love is shown in many different ways. During the play there are many different sub-stories and extra plots that it is easy for Shakespeare to add many different ideas‚ these sub-stories in the play are the story of Pyrimus & Thisbee and also the story of the Fairy King and Queen Oberon and Titania. With these added plots in place Shakespeare adds the themes of deceit‚ magic and confusion. In Act 1 Scene 1 parental love is shown when Hermia’s father Egeus

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    Explore the significance of setting in a Midsummer Night’s Dream. The implementation of ‘the forests wild’ could ultimately be a depiction of the story of Genesis; reflecting knowledge in the direction of the sore lovers who so desperately seek to gain each other’s infinite company despite the prohibitions of society and reality. In Genesis 2.5 when‚ ‘The LORD God took the man‚ and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it up and keep it’ is incredibly reminiscent of the careful displacement of

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed that it was written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens‚ Theseus‚ and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors‚ who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play‚ categorized as a comedy‚ is one of Shakespeare’s most popular works for the stage

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    "Imagination in a Midsummer Night’s Dream." Shakespeare Quarterly‚ Vol. 15‚ No.2. Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University‚ 1964. pp.115-129. Print Dent’s produced an argument that the most pervasive element of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the contrasting role of imagination in love and in art. He states that "the origin of love never lies in reason." Dent also elaborates on the magic charm by which love is to be manipulated within a single night is quite naturally

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    A “Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ a comedy play set in Athens‚ was written by William Shakespeare in the mid-1590’s. In the play‚ the duke of Athens‚ Theseus‚ was getting himself and his city ready for his upcoming wedding. He was preparing to marry Hippolyta‚ the queen of the Amazons‚ who he had just conquered. However‚ there is a dilemma that is disturbing his festivity. A woman named Hermia was in love with a man named Lysander. The problem is‚ there is another man named Demetrius‚ and Hermia’s father

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