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    Throughout the play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ one of the main themes is love. Shakespeare takes this theme and twists it around‚ showing how he perceives love based on how his characters react in the presence of it. One of the first things that Shakespeare says about love is that it’s messy. It’s imperfect. A popular quote from the play that supports this is said by Lysander in Act I‚ Scene i‚ “The course of love never did run smooth.” By saying this‚ Lysander is stating

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    Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is love. Throughout the play‚ love is illustrated by different sorts and struggles to define the difference between fantasy and reality; although true love does triumph in the end. While there are many types of love depicted throughout the play‚ this essay will focus on the aspects of parental love‚ true love‚ and friendship love. Depicting a serious conflict between Egeus and his daughter Hermia‚ the play displays Egeu’s very strong parental love for Hermia throughout

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    over the mind‚ especially when they are in love. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ William Shakespeare explores the true nature of love. Love is a powerful force and illusion‚ which controls people to act irrationally or changes their personality. Love can change a person’s mind and judgment drastically. The characters in the play undergo heavy transformations because of their passion. In the play A Midsummer Night’s DreamHermia turns into a different person because of her love for Lysander

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    William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream demonstrates various headstrong women whom were restrained by their society in some form. Despite these restricting circumstances these determined females fought for what they truly desired. Against all odds they stood firm and took a stand in the name of true love. Having fallen madly in love with Lysander‚ Hermia was determined to one day become his bride. But exhibiting disregard for her emotions‚ Egeus had alternate plans for his daughter.

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    Deception is the cause of many bad things stealing‚ counterfeiting‚ hacking into people’s accounts‚ and stealing money. In some of the books we read deception is something that comes back several points in the stories. In Midsummer Night Oberon uses the flower potion to trick Titania into falling in love with a vile creature so he can have the mortal boy. Oberon also has his servant uses the flower potion to make certain characters fall in love but ends up making the wrong character fall in love

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    order to succeed with love. This is very prevalent in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the case of Lysander and Demetrius. To Demetrius‚ love is more about gaining power‚ as opposed to actually obtaining a life partner‚ and someone who truly cares about you‚ and will stay by your side the entire time that you reside on this Earth. He continuously attempts to pursue Hermia‚ who does not love him back‚ and completely neglects the fact the Helena is begging for his love; telling him she will do anything

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    In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ the characters Demetrius and Titania review their actions of their previous infatuations in Act 4. Although they believe that their love for another is true‚ Shakespeare illustrates that when it comes to love‚ ultimately‚ one follows their heart‚ not thinking or showing any concern for the consequences of their actions. Demetrius loves Hermia instead of Helena at first‚ but he becomes infatuated with Helena after Puck uses his magic

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream depicts the lunacy in love by warping tensions and the dream-like quality of love beneath the eyes of the dreamer to produce "rare visions" in which to learn from. The title of the play holds tremendous weight‚ as it depicts the passions of love through dreams‚ while emphasizing the relationship between the two. Dreams and love then become intertwined with one another and the similarities begin to become more apparent. Shakespeare brilliantly weaves the lives of the four

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    A Difficulties of Love In the drama "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" by William Shakespeare‚ it a great movie was discussed the difficulties of love‚ magic‚ the nature of dreams‚ and the relationship between the fantasy and reality that deal with lust‚ jealousy‚ and revenge in life and society. It a great drama movie makes the reader and everyone have a feeling about the romantic‚ comedic‚ fantastic‚ satirical‚ dreamlike‚ farcical‚ and joyful in life. The theme of difficult love is often explore through

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by the world famous Shakespeare. Although‚ it was originally written as a play to perform‚ adaptations have came along and made various movies and books. Since these adaptations have been made their information is very much alike the original play by Shakespeare but very different all at the same time. I will be comparing and contrasting the play written by Shakespeare hundreds of years ago to the the movie‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ made in 1999 directed

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