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Deception In Midsummer Night
Deception is the cause of many bad things stealing, counterfeiting, hacking into people’s accounts, and stealing money. In some of the books we read deception is something that comes back several points in the stories. In Midsummer Night Oberon uses the flower potion to trick Titania into falling in love with a vile creature so he can have the mortal boy. Oberon also has his servant uses the flower potion to make certain characters fall in love but ends up making the wrong character fall in love. This causes a lot of argument between them in which Oberon must get involved, and fix things between them. Deception also leads people to living an unhappy life of living in the shadows. Cyrano writes letters for Christian to Roxanne to help him win her love by writing poems. He does this for him for a large portion of the story. He goes on to talking for Christian in person while hiding in the shadows, so she can’t see who it truly is. During the war he continues to send letters while running across enemy fire in …show more content…
If we aren’t able to trust each other how can we even be called the United States if we’re not truly united. Deception also seems to be something we all use as an excuse to give an answer they want to here, but it isn’t truly how we really feel about the situation. It can be as simple as simple as doing your homework, or cleaning you room. You might tell your parents an answer, but is it the honest truth. I come back to this because I feel as this is the strongest form of Deception that keeps happening everything day in our daily lives. We might mean it intentionally as harming others because we feel giving a good life is better than a bad truth that will end up hurting a lot of people you care. When they find out what the truth because they always will they are hurt far more than they would have if we would have if we would've told the truth in the first

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