Acting on Emotions Sophocles designs his plays to instruct his audience members to behave morally correct. People’s actions are ruled by their emotions (jealousy‚ suspicion‚ anger‚ pride‚ and love) and it leads to negative effects for them. But when acting in a sage demeanor‚ it gives evidence to a person’s character. Sophocles writes his characters to be ruled by their emotions and to teach people to behave in a prudent demeanor. Sophocles designs his plays to have the people of authority act
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Austin Green-Paxton TDA-English 4A 6/10/13 A Midsummer Night’s Dream A and B) THESEUS‚ Duke of Athens: Engaged to Hippolyta. Theseus represents power and order throughout the course of the play. He appears only at the beginning and end of the story‚ and seems to be removed from the dreamlike events of the forest. EGEUS‚ Father to Hermia: Egeus has given Demetrius permission to marry Hermia‚ but Hermia‚ who’s in love with Lysander‚ refuses to marry Demetrius. Egeus’s insists that
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In life people may try to control situations and other people and often do not get the results they wanted. This often happens in the play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. The characters plan to control another person’s actions or feelings and ultimately it ends in a chain of bad events or just failure. An example of this is Demetrius‚ a young man who wants to marry a woman named Hermia. He learns that even if he may consider her hand in marriage his right‚ controlling her emotions
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controversies‚ jealousies and barriers existent due to blood lineage which may try to harm lovers. Egeus‚ Hermia’s Father‚ goes to Duke Theseus for assistance with his predicament. Theseus gives Hermia the option to either marry Demetrius‚ the man his father has deemed worthy of her‚ or for her to live a barren life as a nun. As Hermia heard what was to come‚ she replies to Theseus as she defends her love‚ ”So I will grow‚ so live‚ so die‚ my lord‚ Ere I will yield my virgin patent up unto his lordship whose
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never did run smooth’. Theseus and Hippolyta are rich‚ indulged individuals who are primarily concerned with their love lives and how to get their own way‚ much alike the four lovers. Their relationship begins with the conflict of war and Theseus ‘won thy love doing thee injuries’ demonstrating how his love for her motivated him‚ but also caused him pain whilst doing so. The idea that their relationship began with war comes from Greek mythology which tells how Theseus‚ a legendary ruler of Athens
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Sheri L. Bett ENG403 – Dr. Donna Bussell May 4‚ 2012 Final Paper Macho Men and Powerless Women in Arthurian Literature Arthurian literature focuses on the valiant and just people and gives great insight into chivalry and what that meant—how people lived by it—in this era. It is about truth and justice‚ undying love‚ sacrificing for the King‚ and bravery and courage whenever honor was at stake. Although these times were dark‚ and often barbarically bloody‚ they had clearly defined roles put
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portrayed throughout the script as if it was evil and cursed. This‚ I believe‚ is the main theme of the play‚ the forbidden love. From reading the script‚ it was apparent that‚ Phedre‚ is the main character. Phedre‚ married to her sister’s ex-husband Theseus‚ is torn between faith and humility‚ and the lustful love for her stepson Hippolytus. Her shameless attraction to Hippolytus is obviously forbidden in that on the basis of incest (although not blood related)‚ this I interpret as her super objective
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Audrey English 8B 11/1/12 Week #10 The Three Coinciding Worlds of Midsummer Night’s Dream “If we wanted to think about the device in psychological terms‚ we could see the nested worlds‚ and double characters as representing the conscious (Theseus and the court)‚ the unconscious (Oberon and the fairies)‚ and the world of art‚ dream‚ and fantasy (Peter Quince and the “actors”; “Bottom’s Dream”) that mediates between them.” – Marjorie Garber‚ Shakespeare After All‚ 221-222 In the quote above
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0 WORKSHEET 10: A Midsummer Night’s Dream QUESTIONS 1. The play has some important ramifications. To begin with‚ the events that take place in Acts II and III in woodland and summer moonlight give the play its name. As we can see‚ the world of magic and the world of the dreams are very important and they belong to a mixture of magic and reality that appears through the whole play. Since the events which happen in the moonlight are just a dream‚ just part of the magic world far from the real world
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love’s strange games and the evil behind the devious tricks. This play begins as Theseus‚ the Duke‚ is preparing to marry Hippolyta. He woos her with his sword. Hermia is in love with Lysander. Egeus‚ Hermia’s father‚ forbids the relationship with Lysander and orders her to marry Demetrius. Demetrius loves Hermia‚ but she does not love him. On the other hand‚ Helena is in love with Demetrius. To settle the confusion‚ Theseus decides that Hermia must marry Demetrius or become a nun. In retaliation to her
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