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    A consideration of how Emily Bronte‚ Tennessee Williams and Shakespeare consider the notion of illusion and reality in the context of a love story. Wuthering Heights follows the Romantic Movement‚ a movement within literature during the late 18th century with captured intense emotion and passion within writing as opposed to rationalisation. Emily Bronte’s main focal point within the novel is the extreme emotion of love and whether it leads to the characters contentment or ultimate calamity. This

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    The play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” explores the different ideas of love that’s very related to real life. It describes how the emotion of love is very insignificant and shouldn’t interfere with personal affairs of the individuals of the play. Love in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a very conflicting emotion within the story because it creates drama within the plotline‚ which enriches the plot. In the beginning of the story‚ we are immersed into the scene where Egeus is complaining about his

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Critical Essay “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare is a play with effective themes of love and magic. The play begins with Egeus‚ Hermia’s father taking Hermia to see Theseus the Duke of Athens for his judgement about who she should marry. Meanwhile a group of craftsmen are in the forest rehearsing a play‚ which they plan to perform at the wedding of Duke Theseus. The fairy king Oberon sends Puck the fairy to cause some mischief. The four lovers are found

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    2014 Illusion vs Reality In both pieces of literature‚The Great Gatsby and Macbeth; tragic flaws are created from one misinterpreting an illusion for reality. The two protagonist‚ Gatsby and Macbeth become so caught up in living their dreams that they start to live life an an illusion.Both characters believe that they can achieve eternal happiness as a result of having wealth and power. They also believe that through their position in society‚ they can control an aspect

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    incorporated into a play‚ or a comic situation may result in a series of complicated antics. The tradition for some of these comic devices has been carried over for hundreds of years‚ dating back to Shakespeare in the 1600’s. In his play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare creates humor through three diverse devices: oxymoron’s‚ malapropisms and mistaken identities. All result in a farcical mix of comic situations. Wordplay‚ such as the use of oxymorons‚ is an abundant source of humor in Shakespeare

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    between Illusion and reality‚ Blanche Dubois arrives in New Orleans with the impression of a patronising‚ wealthy school teacher who has no time for those who she believes to be below her class as we see in her rudeness to Eunice at the very beginning. As the play progresses we see that Blanche is merely projecting a persona which hides both her past and the inevitably grim future that awaits her. On the other side we have Blanche’s brother-in-law Stanley who acts in opposition of the illusion which

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    After watching the movie‚ viewing the play and reading the text it can be concluded that the play best portrayed the experience Shakespeare had intended for his audience. The play was incomparable to the other mediums of A Midsummer Night’s Dream because of its authenticity. Although the movie had a various number of negatives‚ it was a commendable representation of the story because of its style. Out of all the portrayals of the story‚ the text was the least pleasurable because its content did

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    Logic vs. Magic Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream draws sharp parallels between the two sets of order in the play; one seen in Athens‚ and the other in the forest. Athens is the paragon of order‚ with Theseus ruling in a logical and equitable manner. The "enchanted" forest is a place of chaos and magic‚ untouched by such logical laws as we see in Athens. Faeries and inconstant love rule here‚ while logic and laws govern the movements of Athenians. Both places serve different qualities‚ and

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    Hermia and Helena’s relationship has changed greatly after the intervention of Puck with the love potion. Once best friends‚ they have become each others enemies‚ and all for the love of Lysander and Demetrius. Hermia and Helena were best friends when they were at school. "All school-days’ friendship‚ childhood innocence?" (Act 3‚ Scene 2‚ Line 201‚ Helena) They had complete trust in each other‚ telling each other their deepest secrets. "Is all the counsel that we two have shared‚ The sisters’

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    Dream and Reality In the complex real world that we are living‚ there are dark and bright sides. It is easy for us to see the bright side‚ but it is not bright enough for us to see the dark sides of the world. One way to investigate the dark side of the world in a fun way is to read fairy tales and fables. Fairy tales and fables are short narrative stories with some deep meanings and moral lessons. In fact‚ they originally stemmed from oral tradition stories and old folk tales. Fables contain

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