The Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream PJ Arata ENG/304 Sept. 16‚ 2012 Diane Duncan I have chosen option no. 3 for this paper‚ exploring the course of true love in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I will be addressing the four following questions: * What functions in the plot do Puck and Bottom serve? * What purpose is served by having Titania fall in love with an ass? * How does the famous line‚ “The course of true love never did run smooth” characterize the
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True love brings out emotions you cannot control. In Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ he shows in an entertaining way the flaws of young love and how it can make the most reasonable people into fools. In ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Shakespeare shows us the impact love has in the real world through the characters Helena‚ Hermia‚ and Lysander. It reveals how different people have their own way of thinking what love means. Helena thinks that love should be everlasting‚ and
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream essay Topic~ “Reason and love keep little company together nowadays”. Explain how this quote relates to the play as a whole. “And yet to say the truth‚ reason and love keep little company together nowadays” This quote from act 3‚ scene 1 in Shakespeare’s play A Midsummers Night Dream‚ seems so insignificant when Bottom‚ a simple and silly workman with the head of an ass‚ expresses this to Titania Queen of the Fairies. She has recklessly fallen in love
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his 37 plays all of his characters have some relation to passion‚ why? Shakespeare uses passion to play a significant role in his stories‚ affecting each character and their plot. His story‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ is no different. Of the many character passions that appear in A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ a lot of them affect major plot points in the play‚ such as Oberon’s passion for jealousy leading to his action with the flower‚ Hermia and Lysander’s passionate love leading to their action to
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they do not let anything come in between them while other times their bond is weak and easily broken. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is portrayed in many different ways from Helena to Demetrius‚ Lysander to Hermia‚ and Oberon to Titania. The link between Helena and Demetrius is very transparent‚ he once loved her while she still loves him. Inside the text of A Midsummer Night’s Dream we read many references to a past in which Helena and Demetrius once loved each other. As the story progresses
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Everyone has had that moment when they blame one person or character for the problem or conflict‚ correct? The same can be said for the plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. The entire plot of the play is mostly Puck (the Fairy King Oberon’s servant)’s fault. First and foremost‚ Puck messed up! He was instructed to put the love juice in Demetrius’s eyes by Oberon‚ but accidentally put it in Lysander’s eyes. According to the play‚ Puck said‚ “[he sees Lysander] Who is this? Clothing
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Shakespeare’s most popular play‚ A Midsummer Night’s dream‚ is a romantic comedy that features young lovers that fall deeply in and out of love in a brief period of time. This play is unique because it demonstrates tragedy and comedy at the same time. The comedy not only provides amusement and laughter but also helps ease tension between characters. In the play‚ A “Midsummer Night’s Dream”‚ William Shakespeare produces a comedy through foolish characters and mistaken identities. Each character
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Audrey English 8B 11/1/12 Week #10 The Three Coinciding Worlds of Midsummer Night’s Dream “If we wanted to think about the device in psychological terms‚ we could see the nested worlds‚ and double characters as representing the conscious (Theseus and the court)‚ the unconscious (Oberon and the fairies)‚ and the world of art‚ dream‚ and fantasy (Peter Quince and the “actors”; “Bottom’s Dream”) that mediates between them.” – Marjorie Garber‚ Shakespeare After All‚ 221-222 In the quote above
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Shakespeare has used many genres to convey his stories‚ especially comedies‚ tragedies and historical plays. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a classic example of Shakespearean comedy. A comedy is a kind of drama which is intended primarily to entertain the audience and in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. Shakespeare was influenced by the concept of intertextuality and there are literary interferences all the time in his plays. In Shakespeare’s comedies‚ there is no satiric excess
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The exaggeration of male power in A Midsummer Night’s Dream appears to hold less comedic weight in a feminist reading than it would have at the time of its debut when shakespeare’s intentions would have been clear and fit the niche in which the comedy is tailored towards. A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents male superiority not only through the two females chosen to be focused on closely in this essay (other women such
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