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    the play. In "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"‚ Shakespeare uses the mechanicals to differentiate the reality from the dream‚ while his use of imagination and fairies leads to the lovers’ transformation which demonstrates how naive the Athenian youths are. The mechanicals served as a barrier between the worlds of dream and the reality. According to Williams‚ the mechanics shows a level of reality. Pyramus and Thisbe is a major metamorphosis and they bring back the audience from the "dream state" to reality

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    Obedience A Monster

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    Does Obedience make a Monster? For many years‚ a popular question that people ask to those who follow a leader “How far would you go for them?”. This question has been answered many times by not only the people in these situations‚ like those in Democratic Kampuchea (Pina et al.‚ 2010‚ p. 291)‚ but also scientists like Stanley Milgram (Milgram‚ 1965‚ p. 59). These assurances are important to study to be able to understand the psychological effects that these types of relationships have. The first

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    Conformity And Obedience

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    Conformity and Obedience Starting from a very young age‚ it is considered the norm to obey and to conform. The purpose of this essay is to evaluate a study for conformity and obedience. Conformity can be defined as a change in one self‚ when one gives in to group pressure‚ in order to fit in to society. Obedience on the other hand is when you are told what to do. The difference between the two are‚ when we conform it is usually down to peer pressure. Where as in obedience you are taking orders from

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    In the play‚ A Midsummer’s Night Dream‚ there were a couple instances where the three worlds collided. Shakespeare has included the worlds of the supernatural (fairies)‚ the ruling class (nobles)‚ and the working class (the Mechanicals). During the play‚ he has made all three worlds intersect and converge; interacting and often causing chaos and disorder between the worlds. For example‚ when Oberon demanded Puck to obtain the flower‚ to which he will use on Titania‚ he had oversaw a conflict between

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    Shakespeare ’s Plays Within Plays and Characters Within Characters In A Midsummer Night ’s Dream‚ Shakespeare creates in Bottom‚ Oberon‚ and Puck distinctive characters who represent different aspects of himself. Like Bottom‚ Shakespeare aspires to rise socially; he has ambitions‚ and interacts with the queen‚ however marginally. Through Bottom‚ Shakespeare mocks these pretensions within himself. Then again‚ Shakespeare also resembles Oberon‚ controlling the magic we see on the stage; unseen

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    Assessing Obedience

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    ASSESSING OBEDIENCE Obedience is a characteristic ingrained in every person. No matter who a person is‚ there is always a more authoritative figure that they must obey to. Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted experiments that tested obedience towards authority. These experiments were conducted in 1963 at Yale University. The experiments Milgram performed gained many different reactions from people. Two authors that wrote their thoughts on the experiments done by Milgram

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    element that even occurs in real life. The aspect of this competition provides parallels between two characters‚ entailing drama‚ humor‚ and interesting themes to the story. A perfect example of this element is within William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The two main women of the story‚ Hermia and Helena‚ compete over boys in the story‚ and that‚ as well as their different personalities makes the story quite interesting. The relationships between the two women changes constantly‚ as they

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    Obedience to Authority

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    Outline: Obedience Synthesis I. Background Information: Obedience defined by Andrew Colman‚ in human behavior‚ is a form of “social functions in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authory figure". Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance‚ which is behavior influenced by peers‚ and from conformity‚ which is behavior intended to match that of the majority. Obedience can be seen as both a sin and a virtue. No human social organization can function without

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    Obedience to Authority No human social organization can function without some degree of obedience to authority‚ as the alternative would be anarchy leading to total chaos. Hence we find some sort of a hierarchy in both the most underdeveloped and the most civilized societies where certain individuals exercise authority over others. Almost everyone will agree that some degree of authority in certain individuals or groups (and their obedience by other groups) is desirable for the proper

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    Conformity and Obedience

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    CioConformity obedience and authority Conformity basically means compliance with common practices Compliance means doing what other people in our social standing do in our daily lives. Most people‚ in most social groups‚ conform in everyday things like speech‚ dress codes‚ eating habits etc. This kind of conformity is known as ‘’Social control’’- the numerous pressure as individuals grow turns them from babies into members of our society. The main agencies of social control are the family‚ the

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