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    In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Lysander and Demetrius change their feelings of love and promises for both Helena and Hermia. Shakespeare shows us how love is unpredictable and inconsistent with the changes of feelings and broken promises between the young lovers. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Lysander switches his love for both Hermia and Helena with changes of feelings of love and broken promises‚ showing how unpredictable and inconsistent love is. In the beginning of the play‚ Lysander is deeply

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    Titania and Oberon quarrel over the changeling. Oberon plans to use the love juice harvested from the "Dian’s bud" (2‚ 1‚ 3) (2‚ 4‚ 1) that Puck retrieves on Titania to snatch the changeling. Oberon uses puck so that juice can be dropped into the lovers eyes. Puck makes a mistake and causes the wrong people to fall in love. Puck transforms bottoms head into that of an ass.Titania falls in love with bottom. Titania and Oberons conflict are over the changeling which Oberons wants as a slave. Titania

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Dakota Forsythe ENG2D1 Ms. Tuerk Tuesday‚ April 22nd A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies is generally thought of as a romantic comedy. The play involves a number of romantic components‚ it is not actually a love story; it distances the audience from the emotions of the characters in order to poke fun at the torments and afflictions that those in love suffer. Factors that make the play fit into the genre are the troubles of humans

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    dictionary‚ dreams are a series of thoughts‚ images and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. A person can experience many different types of dreams‚ whether it is nightmares‚ daydreams‚ or fantasies. In fantasy texts there has been one commonality‚ the characters indulge in dreams in order to achieve something they have greatly desired. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ he constructs a sort of dream world where characters get mixed up through their dream states which

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    What different views of love are presented by characters in acts 1 and 2 of the play and what do they reveal about the nature of love? From the very beginning shakespeare portrays the lovers as being out of balance and unharmonious‚ we as the audience want the harmony to be restored and two happy couples to be united for the sake of symmetry and happiness in the characters. The first couple introduced are Theseus and Hippolyta. Hippolyta was the queen of the Amazon and was defeated by Theseus

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    acting roles. . . including the female ones. Women were not allowed to act. It was not considered an appropriate profession for a lady (“Globe Theatre Female Roles”). Women had very clear roles in society at the time. They were to do their jobs quietly and respectfully‚ something one cannot do from stage (Sharnette). Plus‚ women

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    As Lysander says‚ "The course of true love never did run smooth."  Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is portrayed as complicated and difficult‚ yet Shakespeare does it in a way that is humorous and lighthearted.  In this play love often brings out the worst in people‚ yet in the end it’s what brings everyone back together.  Love has the ability to spellbind people as Shakespeare represents symbolically through Puck’s actions‚ and we see how intensely complicated it can be when it nearly tears apart

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    Kendall Grasela A Midsummer Night’s Dream Close Reading Mrs. Burnett A Midsummer Night’s Dream Analysis When Titania argues with Oberon about ownership of the Indian boy‚ their relationship is not only affected‚ but the society is affected negatively as well. The argument over the Indian boy causes major difficulties in the weather and seasons. Titania defying her gender role also causes problems because she is not obeying the demands of her husband whom she should. She “ha[s] forsworn his

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    It is evident in the plays Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night’s Dream that Viola and Hermia have less control over their own lives because they are female. First‚ women cannot work certain jobs‚ even if they are qualified. Specifically‚ Viola is unable to work for Duke Orsino until she alters her appearance. After being shipwrecked‚ Viola talks to the captain and learns of Orsino and his love for Olivia. Then Viola decides to serve the duke and asks the captain to comply: Conceal me what I am‚ and

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    love connections are effected somehow either that person doing it to themselves‚ or someone else who mixes the love relationships up . Confusion within the love can cause misconception and turn into a disaster amongst each other. In Midsummer Nights Dream by Shakespeare the confusion of love relationships mixes up each persons views of one another‚ but in the end everyone is rejoined and the loves are once again in their right place. All confusion‚ reconciliation‚ and celebration are used in each scene

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