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    Marissa Coe EN 360 Shakespeare I Major Paper 1 03/25/14 In one of Shakespeare’s famous plays‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ the mischievous fairy Puck plays a role like no other. Although he has minor parts in this playwright‚ his personality and foolish traits make him admirable to readers. A perfect actor to cast the role of Puck I believe would be Joe Pesci‚ an American actor and comedian of the 20th century. Pesci shares his foolish and witless personality with the character of Puck and fits

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    Oberon‚ the King of the Fairy world‚ represents one of the character’s from the older generation in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Oberon strongly believes that he has authority over everyone and can can do whatever he wants‚ whenever he wants. He highly values the traditional societal hierarchy that is very popular in his era. Oberon presumes all of the fairies in the fairy world‚ as well as all of the mortals in the human world‚ are “below him” and his authority in the hierarchy that is

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    Demetrius’s Dream One of Shakespeare’s major theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the analogy that love is like being in a dream; mystical‚ unexplainable and changeable. This can be seen in Act 3 scene 2 lines 140 through 147‚ where Demetrious describes Helena’s beauty and perfection after being drugged with Cupid’s flower by Oberon‚ the Fairy King. Through the usage of unique language and context Shakespeare is able to penetrate the imagery of Demetrious’s love to enforce this theme throughout

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    A “Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ a comedy play set in Athens‚ was written by William Shakespeare in the mid-1590’s. In the play‚ the duke of Athens‚ Theseus‚ was getting himself and his city ready for his upcoming wedding. He was preparing to marry Hippolyta‚ the queen of the Amazons‚ who he had just conquered. However‚ there is a dilemma that is disturbing his festivity. A woman named Hermia was in love with a man named Lysander. The problem is‚ there is another man named Demetrius‚ and Hermia’s father

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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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    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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    English 1102 10/29/2012 Types of love in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: In the play‚ “A Midsummer Night ’s Dream‚ by William Shakespeare‚ several examples of love’s association with a higher power are presented like Theseus arranging a marriage between himself and Hippolyta‚ Egeus choosing who Hermia should marry and the fairies who have the ability to control love in the Enchanted Forest.  There are many instances in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” where love is coerced from or foisted upon unwilling

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    Brady Faria Rubin RWW/ D period 3/14/13 Women Powerless in A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy by William Shakespeare that takes place in Athens‚ Greece and in the forest where chaos unfolds on four lovers: Hermia‚ Lysander‚ Helena‚ and Demetrius. In these relationships the men are in power‚ belittling the women. Also‚ in the forest chaos happens between the fairies‚ King Oberon and Queen Titania‚ because he puts a potion on her and other in which the men are

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    The dynamic between the two realms in the play sparks up the tension caused by the Athenian law as Shakespeare supports the common gender belief that women are passive while men are predominant when it comes to love.Shakespeare decides to add a little love potion making the themes men and women and the supernatural support the conception of true love versus infatuation.  “The course of true love never did run smooth” quoted by Lysander sums up the fact that love is a controlling theme that leads

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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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