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    In ‘A Midsummer’s Night DreamHelena is presented as an extremely lovesick and broken girl. To present Helena‚ Shakespeare uses carefully crafted language and a range of techniques such as metaphors‚ similes and hyperboles. The audience’s reaction to Helena changes throughout the play‚ for example‚ at different points in the play‚ we feel sympathetic towards her. At the beginning of the play Helena is heartbroken and extremely upset due to Demetrius’s hate towards her. We know this as she says

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Humor Shakespeare uses many ways to portray humor and make his plays a success because of it. He created a careful mix of love with humor to create a success called "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." The focus of this paper is to describe how Shakespeare uses humor in his play. One way that Shakespeare uses humor in this play is by using plain humor that need not be interpreted in any way. He did this by creating the artisans. The artisans‚ obviously are not intelligent

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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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    War of Love The story‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ is a humourous yet romantic play that many audiences love to read/watch‚ written in a different style of writing than the modern time writing we use. A complex theme in the A Midsummer Night’s Dream is love. With many different views on love‚ it makes the A Midsummer Night’s Dream story more interesting due to the many different points of view the story gives out with the theme‚ love. Through the course of the play the

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    worlds greatest poet and playwright‚ William Shakespeare‚ proved in a few of his plays that the opinions of others should not affect our own choices or destinies. He uses his work of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and his version of Pyramus and Thisbe‚ Romeo and Juliet to convey this idea. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream two teens are forbidden from getting married‚ and two teens are in a one sided relationship. After all the mix up with fairies‚ spells‚ and running around in the woods‚ Theseus the king

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    English 1102 10/29/2012 Types of love in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: In the play‚ “A Midsummer Nights Dream‚ by William Shakespeare‚ several examples of love’s association with a higher power are presented like Theseus arranging a marriage between himself and Hippolyta‚ Egeus choosing who Hermia should marry and the fairies who have the ability to control love in the Enchanted Forest.  There are many instances in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” where love is coerced from or foisted upon unwilling

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    Shakespeare’s play; A Midsummer Night’s Dream the fairies face a multitude of similar choices to make. Although the fairies hinder the characters in the stories lives minimally‚ the amount that they helped contribute to the relationships‚ and happiness of the characters exceeds all the issues they may have caused. Within the play; Demetrius displays an immense hate towards Helena‚ and caused many problems between the relationships of others throughout the play. In the play Demetrius said to Helena “I love thee

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    Mandy Conway Mrs. Guynes English 12 16 March 2000 A Critical Analysis of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" William Shakespeare‚ born in 1594‚ is one of the greatest writers in literature. He dies in 1616 after completing many sonnets and plays. One of which is "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." They say that this play is the most purely romantic of Shakespeare’s comedies. The themes of the play are dreams and reality‚ love and magic. This extraordinary play is a play-with-in-a-play‚ which

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    It is evident that in A Midsummer Nights Dream gender conflict is not the only source of comic disorder in the exposition of the play. This can be seen due to the number of other events and scenes which are sources of comic disorder such as character relationships‚ stereotypes & status and authoritative conflicts. An element of comic disorder in the exposition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the idea of men having a higher status than women. The theme of men having control over women is also reinforced

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    The Importance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream High school is the time for students to get a little taste of adulthood without being completely independent; it’s a safe way for them to experience the world without making themselves vulnerable to the rest of it. Reading various works from different times contributes to their journey. Therefore‚ Shakespeare’s Shakespearean comedy‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ is essential for high schoolers to read. The young adult audience can relate to and learn from

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