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    | | Enter THESEUS‚ HIPPOLYTA‚ and PHILOSTRATE‚ with others | THESEUS and HIPPOLYTA enter with PHILOSTRATE and others. | 5 | THESEUS Now‚ fair Hippolyta‚ our nuptial hourDraws on apace. Four happy days bring inAnother moon. But oh‚ methinks how slowThis old moon wanes! She lingers my desires‚Like to a stepdame or a dowagerLong withering out a young man’s revenue. | THESEUS Our wedding day is almost here‚ my beautiful Hippolyta. We’ll be getting married in four days‚ on the day of the new moon

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    Saporito “A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Think with the Heart and not with the Mind” In “Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare; Helena describes the undying love that she feels for Demetrius and can’t understand why he does not reciprocate the same. Helena envies her friend Hermia’s and Lysander’s happiness and wishes that she had the same with Demetrius. Although everyone in Athens believes that she is just as pretty as Hermia; Demetrius does not see the same and it torments her. Helena has tried

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    | Love | An essay explaining the works of Shakespeare | | How is love presented in A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Is it “Ever True” or “False Sport”? In your answer refer to three of the main pairs of lovers learnt about during the play. | Love. This word is carelessly thrown around in today’s society. It is very implausible that when this word is used‚ the meaning is not taken into account. A Midsummer NightsDream takes love seriously. With many examples of ever true love and false sport

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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 bed

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    Themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play that relies on opposing themes to generate the events in the play. The antitheses of order and disorder‚ reality and dream‚ amity and enmity‚ and harmony and dissonance represent the thematic oppositions of the play. There are also character antitheses that stem of the themes‚ for example how the peaceful relationship of Hippolyta and Theseus represents order and the volatile relationship of Oberon and Titania

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Essay According to Meriam Webster Dictionary (2017)‚ love is defined as "strong affection for another based on kinship ties‚ an attraction based on sexual desire or affection based on admiration or benevolence ". A Midsummer Night’s Dream shows us a modern twist on how love can be everything a person could ever dream of‚ or it can also be someone’s worst nightmare. While many people may fall in love at first sight‚ some build a relationship and then fall in love‚ and there

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    personally not a big fan of Shakespeare although by reviewing the play A Midsummer night’s dream‚ I’m starting to like Shakespeare’s different ideas and how most of his writing and plays involve falling in love and such. This play is mostly about four couples falling in love with the wrong person because they were potioned by a magic fairy in a forest. The setting of this play mostly took place at a forest and the time was night when the play reached its climax. In the beginning of the play‚

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    In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare portrays the plays female characters in two different lights. While late 16th century English women were expected to become wives and mothers‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream does not adhere to the set gender roles of the time. This can be seen through the character of Hermia who is a daring and strong willed female that transcends established norms. On the other‚ the character Helena represents desperate and submissive females‚ which were more commonplace than

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    Types of Love Represented in “A Midsummer Nights Dream” In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ as in many of Shakespeare’s plays the main theme is love. Shakespeare presents many different aspects of love in the play. He shows how love can affect your vision of reality and make you behave in irrational ways. He presents many ways in which your behavior is affected by the different types and aspects of love. The main types of love he presents are; true love‚ unrequited love‚ sisterly love‚ jealous love‚ forced

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    Explain your reading of the opening act of ‘A Midsummers Night Dream’ written by William Shakespeare: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Written by influential and iconic playwright and actor William Shakespeare during the Elizabethan Era uses Ideas including men’s domination over women‚ finding oneself and the moon‚ the use of language called Shakespearean and general Shakespeare conventions used in his plays ‚ the readers own values and attitudes and life experiences‚ texts the reader has also read

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