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    famous playwright‚ William Shakespeare. In both Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare exhibits how love can control a person. To understand how love controls a person‚ one must understand that human nature is the sum of qualities and traits shared by all humans. All humans have exhibit love in one way or another‚ which explains how human nature relates to the controlling aspect of love. In Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ conflicts between loyalty to family and friends‚ lack of trustworthiness

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    after. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not much different from these fairy tales. The play is about the love and relationships of multiple characters‚ some overlapping love triangles‚ and the magic and magical stories that contributed to the love. Hermia and Lysander both truly love each other and after running away together to get away from Hermia’s father who is keeping the two apart‚ their relationship is stopped by dreaming and fake love. With the relationship between Lysander and Hermia‚ dreaming

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    The moon as depicted within this photograph directly correlates to the imperative role it plays as a motif within the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In this story of passion and heartache the moon appears time and time again serving more than just its literal meaning. It provides the audience with a greater understanding of both the characters feelings and the environment in which a scene occurs. This is done through the use of symbolism that is demonstrated in a variety of ways‚ representing more

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    The complex‚ tangled webs of lovers in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is partly to blame for the “love-in-idleness.” (Act 2‚ Scene 1‚ Line 173) This flower‚ “before‚ milk-white‚ now purple with loves wound‚” (Act 2‚ Scene 1‚ Line 174)‚ has the power to make the person treated with its juice‚ across their eyelids‚ fall in love with the first person they see. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare teases the audience with this magic flower‚ almost dangling it in front of their faces

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    The Major Comedic Elements of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Like most comedies‚ Shakespeare’s comedies also aimed to entertain the audience and to conclude with a somewhat happy ending. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is no exception to that rule. Also like most of his comedies‚ the main theme of this play is marriage or the celebration of a marriage. Although marriage is the main theme of this play‚ Shakespeare conveys many other themes though the lyrical expressions of the work. These

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    the play‚ "A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚" by William Shakespeare‚ he explored all the different types of love and the ways in which it is expressed. Each character in the play represented in some way Shakespeare’s ideas on the subject. Shakespeare had loads of ideas about love‚ each idea is molded to suite his views of the connections with life and people. I have chosen to write about Demetrius’s situation in this play. The character Demetrius falls in love with the character Helena‚ through a love

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    The play‚ "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" by William Shakespeare‚ is about four lovers and their "dreamlike" adventure through a fairy ruled forest. There are many different characters in this play and they each play their own individual role in how the play is performed and read. Three main characters that showed great characteristics are: Puck‚ Tom Bottom‚ and Helena. The play‚ "A Midsummer Nights Dream" by William Shakespeare‚ uses characters and their conflicts to give meaning to this piece of literature

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    In the play‚ A Midsummers Night Dream written by Shakespeare would argue that love ultimately wins out over hate. The author maintains that the term ‘love’ can be split into at least three categories. Therefore this argument can even be addressed that the play author will focus on lust‚ friendship and the unconditional love between father and daughter. Shakespeare shows how lust‚ a dimension of love‚ wins out over hate by his portrayal of the relationship between Hermia and Lysander. Key character

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    against love‚ one example being his comedic play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ which follows the adventures in love between a group of young Athenians‚ a foolish man-turned-animal‚ and a fairy queen. It is in Midsummer that Shakespeare

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Nick Bottom In a Mid Summer Night’s Dream‚ the character Nick Bottom is given a rather prominent role in the several scenes he appears in‚ although he is not a lead character in the play. Bottom is unique from all the other characters of the play not only because of the considerable contribution his character brings to the comedic value of the play‚ but because he is the only character able to enter fully in to both the human world and the world of the fairies. In this

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