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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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    Love can be very beautiful and magical but at the same time it can be blinding and dangerous. In the midsummer night’s dream William Shakespeare coveys the message that love comes with its cost‚ by telling us the tragic love story of the two couples Hermia and Lysander ‚ Helena and Demetrius. As Lysander had said to Hermia when she had to decide what kind of life she wants to choose or to die “The course of true love never did love smooth”‚ (1.1.136). In my opinion the person who’s responsible for

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    The Roasts of Lysander In the play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Lysander‚ an Athenian man‚ portrays insult comedy. Insult comedy is the use of insults‚ often one liners‚ at the expense of another character to create comedy. In this case Insult comedy is used to insult another person or object with the intent of creating humor. In act 1‚ scene 1‚ Lysander and Demetrius are fighting over the beloved Hermia. Egeus‚ Hermia’s father‚ expresses his wish to Theseus‚ the duke of Athens for Hermia to be married

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    have tried to solve the mystery of love. Shakespeare has taken all of their attempts and put it all in a nut shell with the character Puck saying "Oh what fools these mortals be". The jealousy between two friends over a man‚ to men fighting over the heart of one woman and a controlling father. "Oh what fools these mortals be!" A midsummer night’s dream illustrates this by displaying the havoc caused by puck then the human’s own foolishness. When two bestfriends; Helena and Hermia‚ are captured in

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    the path to love reigns true in works of art from past to present and even in a cosmic spectrum. In William Shakespeare’s‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ the author uses the themes of love‚ desire‚ and magic to make his pieces applicable across decades‚ original to the author‚ and interesting to the audience conveying a sense of curiosity towards the light-hearted romantic comedy. The desire of the heart and the body drives the plot line into madness and accentuates the modern connections to the timeless

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    describe and compare A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare. I think that these comedies are rather different but we can find a lot of similarities as well. I would like to support this opinion in my essay with different examples from both plays. At the beginning I would like to discuss some similarities between these comedies‚ I will focus on similar motifs‚ characters‚ language and setting. I will also describe what makes both plays comedies and why we sometimes hesitate

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    William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a collection of two different instances connected to each other by the portrayal of a dream. A Midsummer Night’s Dream connects the fairy world to the human world using several situations which depict a dreamy state. Many of the character in A Midsummer Night’s Dream reveal themselves to the audience without including their fellow characters. One character who is an example of this is Helena‚ many times she speaks in a soliloquy format. In

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    Comedies encompass many different aspects including puns‚ jokes‚ and happy endings. But‚ the most prominent and crucial part is the clever servant. Puck‚ a fairy‚ fills this important role in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." This Shakespearean play is a romantic comedy about lovers in a multitude of plots who get their relationships mixed up. Puck‚ the faithful servant to Oberon‚ uses magic to fix all the conflicts in each mini-plot in the playwright and the lovers live happily ever after. Puck’s involvement

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    The play"Midsummer Night’s Dream" by William Shakespeare is about four young Athenian lovers who were lost on a summer night in a forest ruled by fairies. Helena‚ Lysander‚ Demetrius and Hermia these four lovers ran away from Athens and enter in a land of fairies. The major theme is love‚ there is plenty of comedy as well if some are not interested in love. Another theme is friendship‚ most people will have experience that are shown in this play. Difficulties have you thinking in this theme for example

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    least once in their lifetime. Love can be experienced through various ways such as in religion‚ family‚ relationships‚ friendships‚ animals‚ and many more. The love experienced in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is through relationships and marriages. Love can either be a good emotion by holding people together or love can either be a bad emotion by holding people together who do not need to be together. In the play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ love is a very significant theme for the

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