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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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    <center><b>To what extent has the love potion affected the relationship between Helena and Hermia?</b></center><br><br>Hermia and Helena’s relationship has changed greatly after the intervention of Puck with the love potion. Once best friends‚ they have become each others enemies‚ and all for the love of Lysander and Demetrius.<br>Hermia and Helena were best friends when they were at school. <br>"All school-days’ friendship‚ childhood innocence?"<br>(Act 3‚ Scene 2‚ Line 201‚ Helena)<br><br>They

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    HELENA SPEECH (’A Midsummer Night’s Dream’) "Love looks not with the eyes‚ but with the mind‚ And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." This quote is said by Helena during Act 1‚ Scene 1‚ Lines 234 - 235. What Helena means is that‚ Love is an affection which occurs with the mind and not with eyes. Looks aren’t everything‚ Love happens when 2 souls attract to each other. Therefore Love is said to be blind. Helena is a tall‚ fair‚ sweet-hearted person. Despite her lovely characteristics she

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    ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ features many aspects of love which connects the three worlds presented in the play; court‚ workers and fairies. This causes love to be an important theme in the play and it involves several of the characters. Shakespeare orchestrates a situation where love is complicated and this means that the lovers have to face many obstacles in the course of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. The main obstacles which they face are the conventions of marriage which are set out in the play

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    English 12H October 26‚ 2015 The Mysterious Forest In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare uses the archetype of a forest to show that society‚ love and gender roles do not always apply the way they are supposed to. Catherine Belsey states in her essay‚ “The Athenian court represents the world of reconciliation and rationality‚ of social institutions and communal order‚ while the wood outside Athens is the location of night and bewildering passions‚ a place of anarchy and anxiety‚ where

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    introduced as rivals and ex-lovers. Oberon and Titania are both fairy royalty and are arguing over the right to have a sweet Indian boy. Both want the boy and Oberon REALLY wants him and swears to possess the boy and get back at Titania. “Well go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove till I torment thee for this injury.” The rest of the scene is really about Oberon instructing his little sidekick; Puck to get a magical flower that secretes a juice that acts as a love potion. Oberon gets Puck to get

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    adaptation of the classic Shakespearean comedy‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Woody Allen’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy directed in 1982 was nothing less than a radical adaptation. The reasons for this is the change in time period and location‚ lack of any “real” magic‚ and the different storyline. As ancient Greece is to A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ an early 1900’s countryside is to A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy. With a change this significant‚ it is bound to alter the way people speak‚ act‚ and dress

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    Response to: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” An earlier play entitled‚ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”‚ by William Shakespeare‚ is a comedy outlining the destinies of two bothered couples. Shakespeare tactically demonstrates the love of two Athens individuals‚ Lysander and Hermia. The conflict is‚ Hermia’s father is against the marriage of the two and insists upon marriage with a man named Demetrius. However‚ the already complicated situation becomes more complex when Hermia discovers that Helena‚ a deep-rooted

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    In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ William Shakespeare brilliantly uses the night as a motif which plays a valuable role in the play. He combines this motif with the related symbols of the play to demonstrate the power of night and its correlation with love and vision. He uses symbolism and imagery to develop the motif and makes extensive use of the night forest which‚ in part‚ helps the situation of the four young lovers‚ one of the main plots of the play. It might seem strange that Shakespeare would

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare demonstrates irony in many different ways. First‚ Nick Bottom‚ the weaver‚ is turned into an ass‚ which plays on his name‚ Bottom‚ as well as the way in which he acts. Next‚ the mechanicals’ play is a “lamentable comedy and cruel death” (Shakespeare I.ii)‚ which is an oxymoron because comedy and death are often two opposing concepts. Lastly‚ Theseus declares he “wooed [Hippolyta] with [his] sword” (Shakespeare I.i)‚ when wooing is the opposite of battle

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