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    War of Love The story‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ is a humourous yet romantic play that many audiences love to read/watch‚ written in a different style of writing than the modern time writing we use. A complex theme in the A Midsummer Night’s Dream is love. With many different views on love‚ it makes the A Midsummer Night’s Dream story more interesting due to the many different points of view the story gives out with the theme‚ love. Through the course of the play the

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    Throughout the past 400+ years times and ways of life have changed‚ but if you think about it‚ stuff that occurred back then still occur now. The play “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” by Shakespeare displays the most common similarities between then and now. The play displays an arranged marriage‚ a couple arguing‚ and a group of people performing a play for entertainment. As stated before these three things still often occur today. “Full of vexation I complain against . . . my daughter Hermia- Stand

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    A Midsummer Nights Dream Essay Topics: 1. The play presents several different couples: Theseus and Hippolyta‚ Hermia and Lysander‚ Helena and Demetrius‚ Titania and Bottom‚ and Titania and Oberon. What aspects of love are explored in each of these relationships? 2. Compare and contrast Shakespeare’s play to a modern day romantic comedy. 3. Are Hermia and Helena treated as more foolish in the play than Demetrius and Lysander? Is this a commentary on gender? How do we interpret the fact that Hermia

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    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 than a single idea or concept. From the very beginning

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    Why is Love Making Me Mad? In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Love is the running theme. As such it takes on many different forms and characteristics like extreme wanting‚ over protection and true love. Each character runs through the emotion called love in the own very unique way. Take extreme wanting for instance; Helena is going through this for her love of Demetrius. She wants him so bad it borders the line of being a stalker‚ which is not a good thing because Demetrius has

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    Foolishness lies at the heart of this play. To what extent do you agree? Comedy can be defined as ‘Popular entertainment composed of jokes‚ satire‚ or humorous performance’ and is said to expose ‘A humorous element of life or literature’.1 William Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ undoubtedly presents these common comedic traits and exploits them‚ primarily through the incorporation of foolishness within many aspects of the play‚ therefore conforming to comedy by that definition. However‚ within the play

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    sometimes the stars align and everything works out to a joyous ending. In A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream‚ a comedy by Shakespeare‚ we follow two lovers who are well suited for each other because of their personality and attitude towards love. Dear Lysander and Hermia have at least a touch of this celestial magic with their undeniably good finale. Hermia and Lysander‚ two lovers ideal‚ satisfy the dream of love that is real. In explaining why he is more suitable than rival Demetrius‚ enamored Lysander

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    Twelfth Night Comedy in Other Writings While Great Expectations and Gulliver’s Travels were not written as comedy‚ humor is seen in them. The comedy in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night can be related to the comedy in those writings‚ although Shakespeare used a variety of comedic techniques‚ not used in either Great Expectations or Gulliver’s Travels. The comedy in Twelfth Night varies greatly from the comedy in Great Expectations and Gulliver’s Travels at times. Irony is a common comedic element seen

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    the most iconic quotes in Shakespeare’s play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Although the play has many characters‚ love is a silent character that manifests itself in varying configurations between character interactions throughout the play. With this in mind‚ Shakespeare’s‚ A Midsummer’s Night Dream is a literary illustration of forced love‚ romantic love‚ and parental love. One illustration of love that is exemplified in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is that of forced love as portrayed in the relationship

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    A Midsummer Nights Dream I am writing my essay on A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare and I am going to focus on the relationships and how they change and evolve throughout the play. In A Midsummer Nights Dream there are several groups of characters that all get entangled throughout the play. They are the mechanicals‚ the fairies‚ the Athenian court and the lovers. Each group is mixed with another group sometime in the play. The fairies are the creatures who live in the forest and

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