commanding father. He believes that whatever he says is right because he has authority over his daughter. The reason behind Egeus being so strict and mad is because Hermia is in love with Lysander. “Against my child‚ my daughter Hermia.-Stand forth‚ Demetrius.-My noble lord‚ This man hath my consent to marry her.-Stand forth Lysander.- And my gracious Duke‚ This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child. Thou‚ thou Lysander‚ thou has given her rhymes and interchanged love tokens with my child” (1.1.23-29)
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Question Compare and contrast the representation of female sexuality in Cymbeline‚ the Sonnets‚ and one of the plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Richard II‚ Hamlet‚ Antony and Cleopatra‚ Measure for Measure or King Lear. Both Cymbeline and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (AMND) are both set in a patriarchal environment where both genders grapple for control. Valerie Traub defines the distinction between gender sex and gender behavior as “Sex refers to the . . . biological distinctions between
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“Full of vexation I complain against . . . my daughter Hermia- Stand forth Demetrius- . . . This man has my consent to marry her- Stand forth Lysander- . . . This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child . . .” (Shakespeare 1.1 20-30). Egeus (Hermia’s father) is going to the duke to resolve his problem. He wants to arrange a marriage between Demetrius and his daughter Hermia. Although‚ Hermia
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it was when Donnel Wilson caught the winning touchdown pass. (The introduction of Football DBQ) A student in Ely high school wanted to know what really happened and so he interviewed some people. One of the interviewer from Dillard High school Demetrius Johnson who they played on Friday told him "We were robbed‚ that guy never caught the ball." (Source: Document 6 of Football DBQ) The student than interviewed a coach from Dillard High School
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eliminating the controversies‚ jealousies and barriers existent due to blood lineage which may try to harm lovers. Egeus‚ Hermia’s Father‚ goes to Duke Theseus for assistance with his predicament. Theseus gives Hermia the option to either marry Demetrius‚ the man his father has deemed worthy of her‚ or for her to live a barren life as a nun. As Hermia heard what was to come‚ she replies to Theseus as she defends her love‚ ”So I will grow‚ so live‚ so die‚ my lord‚ Ere I will yield my virgin patent
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Midsummer Nights Dream‚ by William Shakespeare is a play about love‚ fantasy‚ and magic. In a passage in Act I scene i‚ Hermia has just refused to marry Demetrius‚ going against her fathers demands. This enrages her father‚ so her father brings her to Theseus‚ where the passage begins with Theseus telling Hermia that she must marry Demetrius or become a nun. In this passage‚ Shakespeare conveys the idea that people are often inconsiderate when reacting to others misfortunes. Shakespeare shows
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Many of William Shakespeare’s plays are so memorable because of the protagonists presented in them. Shakespeare delicately crafts (his) protagonists as complex characters that (evoke) different responses from the audience‚ often leaving the audience with a memorable impression of how they initially felt about the protagonist and how over time those feelings changed due to their experiences in life. Even after the play‚ the protagonist’s reactions to the events that took place in the play stay with
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impossible between Helena and her daughter Cecily because of a life long separation imposed by the father. It is impossible for Helena to be Cecily’s emotional or spiritual mother because Helena is not emotionally equipped to be anything else other than a servant to her husband. Her life has been pre-arranged by a series of male allowances and dictates. Helena and Cecily’s relationship must be emotionally void to work within the shallow‚ materialistic pre-arrangement of their lives. Helena has nothing to
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Porphyria’s Lover Context Robert Browning (1812-1889) was a Victorian poet‚ who is particularly famous for his dramatic monologues in verse form. Browning was born in London‚ to a family who relished literature‚ and he grew up surrounded by books. He wrote his first book of poems before he was 12 – but destroyed them as an adult to make sure no-one could publish them! Browning devoted himself to poetry‚ and initially had to live at home and be supported by his parents to do so. He married another
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Shakespeare and Masculine Hegemony The sociological notion that the hierarchy of society is habitually patriarchal‚ an idea formally named “masculine hegemony”1‚ is influenced by literature beginning as early as the Medieval times and remains unchallenged until the appearance of the works of William Shakespeare in the heat of the English Renaissance. Masculine hegemony as a concept arises from the prison writings of Marxist scholar Antonio Gramsci meanwhile he was imprisoned within a fascist
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