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    In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare it demonstrates the negative treatment that women received from society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A woman’s negative treatment was different then it is in the current time. They were basically represented as if they were not humans‚ mainly like objects in a way that they were thrown around as if they were useless and some were spoken offensively to. Women within this play were forced to get married to someone that their parents

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    Twelfth Night is a comedic play written by William Shakespeare‚ full of love triangles and misunderstandings. Shakespeare uses disguises‚ classes‚ and lies to unfold the misjudgment of devotion and love characters have for each other in the play. Love blinds people‚ causing them to prioritize and risk their life and jobs to aid their loved ones‚ but in Twelfth Night characters also become blinded from social classes and unreciprocated love to the point where other characters in the book judge them

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    William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon‚ England in1564 He has enduring fame because he dared to be different‚ though he is known mainly through his plays. One of the most famous plays he wrote is Romeo and Juliet‚ a well-known love story. Also‚ he wrote Hamlet and Macbeth‚ two other well known plays. He is famous because of his creativty and giftedness with writing plays as well as his acting abilities . Althought his play " twelfth night " is a romantic comedy while " Romeo & Juliet

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    Should Shakespeare be taught in 9th grade curriculum Shakespeare should be taught in the ninth grade curriculum because of his rare dialect‚ his language he created is something you don’t hear today. His plays are really entertaining and people are still interested in watching his plays from people who are living today. Shakespeare created a language of his own called Old English‚ it is a rare dialect something you don’t hear today because we have only certain languages for certain races. The productions

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    We all know for a fact that Shakespeare is surely one romanticized writer. After all‚ most of his successful playwrights revolved around the theme of love (Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer’s Night Dream). I would not be surprised myself if he had more than one wife during his lifetime. In “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”‚ there are many romantic and loving couples (or perhaps just an infatuated couple through the work of hormones) mentioned in the play. These couples consists of: Theseus and Hippolyta

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    Task Look at the way conflict is investigated in Romeo and Juliet and in poems chosen from the selection. Throughout Shakespeare’s play ’Romeo and Juliet’‚ one of the main themes is conflict and conflict gradually escalates as the play reaches its tragic climax. From the start of the play‚ in the prologue‚ we are told of the futility of conflict as suggested by ‘ancient grudge’. The word ’ancient’ suggests that the ’grudge’ started long ago‚ meaning the real reason for it is long since forgotten

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    Hamlet Translation: Stay true to who you really are and to others. The Prince and Me “The sun itself sees not until heaven clears.” Sonnet 148 Translation: 1) The sun cannot see the Earth until the clouds clear (personification). 2) Shakespeare cannot properly imagine his lover. Fire – Bruce Springsteen “Garden of a thousand sighs.” Twelfth Night Translation: There are many worn people in the world. Get Over It – The Eagles “Old Billy was right‚ let’s kill all the lawyers‚

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    To more fully appreciate the famous Shakespearean play Hamlet‚ it must first be broken down to make clear the genius behind it. Hamlet is regarded by most as one of the world’s finest pieces of literature‚ and for good reason. Overall‚ the play is about a young man named Hamlet whose father is murdered by his uncle‚ who then goes on to marry his mother‚ the queen of Denmark. The ghost of Hamlet’s dead father and former king of Denmark‚ appears to Hamlet and bestows on him the responsibility of getting

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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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    People who suppose that the world remains to be against them tend to make certain decisions. William Shakespeare wrote the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. In Act 2‚ Scene 2‚ Romeo finds Juliet standing on her balcony alone. When Juliet sees Romeo‚ they decide to confess their love to each other and start to plan their engagement. The play leaves a message to the readers that people in love make bad decisions which can lead to a tragedy because they end up clouding their judgement when they

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