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Rose In A Midsummer Night's Dream
In "Titanic", Rose is set to marry Caledon and boards the ship with her mother and her fiance in the first-class section. Rose is not happy and feels trapped. She contemplates suicide. She is then rescued by Jack, who is a poor artist in the third-class section of the ship. She falls in love with Jack. Rose's mother and Caledon try desperately to keep Jack and Rose apart. That plan goes out the window when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. Jack and Rose struggle to survive as the ship goes down.

In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Thesues is set to marry Hippolyta when he is asked to settle a dispute between a father and a daughter. Egues arranges for a marriage between his daughter Hermia to Demetrius, who instead loves Lysander.

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