Concert Report Dear Beatrice‚ How have you been? Hope everything is will with you and your family. You and I haven’t had much time to speak these past few weeks‚ so I decided to write you this letter in order to update you on the current events that have occurred in my life recently. Two days ago‚ I attended a baroque sinfonia at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music‚ directed by Adam Gilbert‚ director of the early music program. The program consisted of selections
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characters are magical and mythical creatures called fairies. These characters include Puck‚ Titania‚ Oberon‚ Peaseblossom‚ Cobweb‚ etc. After going through this play‚ I realized that this play is full of supernatural power‚ distinguished from many other plays written by Shakespeare. Since Oberon and Titania appear in ActⅡSceneⅠ‚ the fairies are added to this play. Due to the argument between Oberon and Titania‚ Oberon ordered his servant Punk to use the love juice on his wife. Except that‚ Punk was
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happen to anyone. Love has effects that make one irrational. The play shows several times with the magical effects of two different flowers how irrational love can make people. The characters under the effects of the magic flower‚ Demetrius‚ Queen Titania‚ and Lysander ‚ fall in and out of love throughout the events of the story and show great irrationality. The Athenian Duke Theseus states when being told of these
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itself into symmetrical pairings‚ the traditional happy ending will have been achieved. Somewhat similarly‚ in the relationship between Titania and Oberon‚ an imbalance arises out of the fact that Oberon’s coveting of Titania’s Indian boy outweighs his love for her. Later‚ Titania’s passion for the ass-headed Bottom represents an imbalance of appearance and nature: Titania is beautiful and graceful‚ while Bottom is clumsy and ugly; this shows how random and uncontrollable love can be. Dreams are a subtle
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“It is the nature of people to love‚ then destroy‚ then love again that which they value the most.” –Unknown. Countless authors have tried to display love as human nature‚ but no author does this better than the famous playwright‚ William Shakespeare. In both Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare exhibits how love can control a person. To understand how love controls a person‚ one must understand that human nature is the sum of qualities and traits shared by all humans. All humans
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Illusions A Midsummer Night’s Dream Essay Is it a dream or reality? The connection between the real world and a world created by our own vivid imagination while we sleep is somewhat uncanny. A plethora of individuals cannot fathom how the brain can create such realistic scenarios in such little time. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ the author uses his knowledge of dreams to create his play. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not only the title of this play but the overall theme
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text). Provide the line numbers. For example‚ “Take comfort. He no more shall see my face. Lysander and myself will fly this place” (202-203). Act IV‚ scene i 1. What news does Oberon tell Puck? Answer: Oberon tells Puck that he has convinced Titania to give up the Indian boy‚ therefore he is now ready to take the love juice off Tatinia. He also tells Puck to take the ass head off Bottom. Evidence from the text: “Welcome‚ good Robin. Seest thou this sweet sight? Her dotage now I do begin to pity
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of manipulation is one like where Titania artificially falls in love with Bottom. While she is napping in the woods‚ Oberon calls for her to be put under a potion that causes her to fall in love with any living creature she sees first. Following that‚ Bottom is heard singing nearby and Titania calls out‚ “What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?” (3.1.132) Sadly‚ those feelings don’t stay strong for long. Their lovely encounter with each other ends with Titania leaving Bottom appalled by the ugly
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Towards the end of the play‚ as the Athenian nobles prepare for the mechanicals’ performance‚ Theseus remarks‚ “How shall we find the concord of this discord?” This question relates to the whole play; the discords of Oberon and Titania and the lovers having been resolved into concord. The following mechanicals’ play of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ offers a new set of incongruous conjunctions reflecting - as in a distorting mirror - aspects of the earlier discords. In this play the apparently anarchic
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head into that of an ass. When the ass-headed Bottom reenters the scene‚ the other men become terrified and run for their lives. Delighting in the mischief‚ Puck chases after them. Bottom‚ perplexed‚ remains behind. In the same grove‚ the sleeping Titania wakes. When she sees Bottom‚ the flower juice on her eyelids works its magic‚ and she falls deeply and instantly in love with the ass-headed weaver. She insists that he remain with her‚ embraces him‚ and appoints a group of fairies—Peaseblossom‚ Cobweb
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