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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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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The film 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
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are in their thoughts and actions. The true motivation behind their actions‚ though‚ is not found in witty quips by knavish fairies‚ but rather in the symbolic nature of the play’s setting. The varied settings in the play‚ from Duke Theseus’s regal estate to Fairy Queen Titania’s forest bower‚ serve to set the mood of every scene‚ and to accentuate the characters actions throughout the play. By observing the rich yet subtle backdrops of A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ it is
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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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Shakespeare conveys his ridicule of love through various methods in A Midsummer’s Night Dream such as portraying love as a game through Helena and Demetrius’ one-sided love and incorporating a love potion which is bound to result in comedy. Usually when a confession of love is not reciprocated the person takes the hint‚ yet Helena struggles to understand that Demetrius‚ “in plainest truth”‚ tells her he does “not‚ nor [he] cannot‚ love” her and continues to express his annoyance (II.i.185-186). Demetrius’
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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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they do not let anything come in between them while other times their bond is weak and easily broken. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is portrayed in many different ways from Helena to Demetrius‚ Lysander to Hermia‚ and Oberon to Titania. The link between Helena and Demetrius is very transparent‚ he once loved her while she still loves him. Inside the text of A Midsummer Night’s Dream we read many references to a past in which Helena and Demetrius once loved each other. As the story progresses
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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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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 through several sets of young lovers is the most powerful theme making
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