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    the “rules” in the dialogue and in plays‚ and in the motions used. Whether the tone and the setting be serious and businesslike‚ or playful and melodical‚ they shape and alter the dialogue and actions of the character. In Shakespeare’s‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ a comedy first performed in the Elizabethan era‚ two major settings are employed. This changes how the characters and the court act‚ which signifies and shows a more serious and methodical tone in the scene. This is the first major setting

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    In my essay I would like to describe and compare A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare. I think that these comedies are rather different but we can find a lot of similarities as well. I would like to support this opinion in my essay with different examples from both plays. At the beginning I would like to discuss some similarities between these comedies‚ I will focus on similar motifs‚ characters‚ language and setting. I will also describe what makes both plays comedies

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    In the play A Midsummer’s Night Dream‚ elements of insult comedy are found as Shakespeare incorporates to elevate the humor. Insult comedy is a form of comedy that is intended to offend or mock a person or group of people. Shakespeare utilizes this very well as a way to improve upon the plot‚ with examples such as Helena’s love for Demetrius and Demetrius’s hate for Helena‚ as well as describing the terrible acting of the Mechanicals. Insults are an effective form of comedy for Shakespeare and

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    Analyzing A Midsummer Night’s Dream In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ William Shakespeare decided to include multiple plays within the play. I would say that adding a play within a play shows the artist creativity and shows that there is more than one way of describing what is meant. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Theseus is preparing to become married to Hippolyta. This play in fact has so much relevance to love‚ that the other plays within this one are also about love. The other plays were used to

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    moment before‚ his world was perfectly normal‚ and then in a heartbeat‚ he is immersed in a fantastical realm of disorder that is absolutely incommensurable from his own. Similarly‚ this must be the effect that the unique setting of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” has on the characters in the play. The setting of the play consists of two distinct worlds‚ Athens and the Fairy Forest‚ which are both alike yet disparate in many ways. By identifying and comparing the numerous characteristics of William Shakespeare’s

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    What happens when people fall in uncontrollable love? In William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy‚ midsummer night’s dream‚ it is proven that love is blind. In relation to the play‚ "Love is blind" because people fall in love without seeing the other people disinterest‚ it stops people seeing people for who they are‚ and love lead to people being overly trusting. Love is blind because it takes away people’s ability to understand and communicate to recognize a “no” and disinterest in pursuing a relationship

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    Conformity and Obedience

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    Conformity and Obedience Task: outline and evaluate findings from conformity and obedience research and consider explanations for conformity (and non-conformity)‚ as well as evaluating Milgram’s studies of obedience (including ethical issues). The following essay will be about understanding what is meant by and distinguishing the differences between the terms conformity and obedience. It will show the evaluation of two key psychological studies which seek to explain why people do and do not conform

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    The Perils Of Obedience

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    controversial experiments that had to deal with obedience. Zimbardo conducted an experiment in a mock prison that showed the roles of the guards and prisoners. Milgram conducted an experiment that tested how much pain a teacher would inflict on someone else at the command of an experimenter. The experiments that they conducted have been called wrong and unethical. Although the experiments vary from each other‚ they both changed the way the world looks at obedience and Authority. Zimbardo wrote the Article

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    William Shakespeare wrote on his novel A Midsummer night’s Dream “Lord‚ what fools there mortals be!”(3.2.116). This is one of Shakespeare’s most famous insult lines. This quote comes from the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Puck is conversing with Oberon about the Athenian peasants‚ and how ridiculous they look when they are fighting for each other’s love. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare is a comedy play‚ in which Shakespeare incorporates magic to the everyday life. Shakespeare also incorporated

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    person. Occasionally when someone is in love with someone else and they know that person does not feel the same way it can have a negative effect on them mentally. William Shakespeare through the character of Helena‚ in his play “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream”‚ he shows one of the many negative mental effects that can occur in someone lives when they are going through that situation. Throughout the play the main

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