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    Act 3 Scene 1: A Reversal of Opression Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream deals primarily with clashing ideas about love‚ an oppressive patriarchy‚ and if love should be the basis of marriage. The play does however offer hints of a need to transform the culture of the day‚ and offers women a greater say in their love or lack thereof. In the third act of the play‚ the power women possess is truly expressed‚ even if it must come about due to a man’s oppression. Further investigation of this

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    course of true love never did run smooth.” Love is often a difficult concept to understand and comprehend. It is especially difficult when other elements are involved. Michael Hoffman’s 1999 film A Midsummer Night’s Dream fully highlights the ups and downs of falling in love. Hoffman’s spectacular film is based off of William Shakespeare’s play of the same name. The play was believed to be written in the mid-1590s and is the playwright’s most popular comedy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream combines four

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    The comedy in both Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lysistrata is portrayed through the comic characters suffering some pain. In Lysistrata the men were suffering from their wives refusing to have sexual relations until the war ends. Watching the men suffer physical pain over the sex strike brings more excitement and entertainment to the audience. Even now a days sexual content is considered humorous‚ especially when the men want it so much in this play but the women tease them and then refuse. Also whenever

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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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    dictionary‚ dreams are a series of thoughts‚ images and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. A person can experience many different types of dreams‚ whether it is nightmares‚ daydreams‚ or fantasies. In fantasy texts there has been one commonality‚ the characters indulge in dreams in order to achieve something they have greatly desired. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ he constructs a sort of dream world where characters get mixed up through their dream states which

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    Love‚ according to Webster’s Dictionary‚ is “a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person‚ which is mutual.” In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ by William Shakespeare‚ there are three couples who are in love‚ but all under very different circumstances. At the beginning of the play‚ Egeus forbids his daughter Hermia to marry Lysander‚ her true love‚ in favor Demetrius. Puck‚ a hobgoblin and mischief-maker‚ puts a spell on Lysander and Demetrius to make them fall in love with Helena. Throughout

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    Love is one of the most important aspects in modern day life‚ people can love anything and everything. Although a lot of the time love seems cruel many don’t realize how important it is for mankind to send a receive love. A strong bond between families is important even through good times and bad‚ love can bring people together yet also push them apart. Sometimes when two people love another they do not let anything come in between them while other times their bond is weak and easily broken. In A

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    Love is defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is tossed around significantly. For example‚ one day a young person may find themselves in love with one person and then wake up only to love someone else. It is supposedly done by magic. Magic and love inconstancy are the biggest themes expressed in the play. Love is toyed with by magic making it some supernatural power at the control of the mischievous fairies. The inconstancy of love shown

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    A Difficulties of Love In the drama "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" by William Shakespeare‚ it a great movie was discussed the difficulties of love‚ magic‚ the nature of dreams‚ and the relationship between the fantasy and reality that deal with lust‚ jealousy‚ and revenge in life and society. It a great drama movie makes the reader and everyone have a feeling about the romantic‚ comedic‚ fantastic‚ satirical‚ dreamlike‚ farcical‚ and joyful in life. The theme of difficult love is often explore through

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    about the idea of love. Will I ever find love? Will I live happily ever after? Society has taught young children that there is such thing as true love. However‚ society fails to explain the hardships and complications that are often paired with love. In theatre‚ William Shakespeare and others alike decide to push the envelope and show the harsh reality of true love. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream he uses his poetic playwriting abilities to express his idea that true love does not run smoothly

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