Through Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Lasse Hallstrom’s film “Chocolat”‚ the composers have proposed similar perceptions on both the role of women in society and magic through the context and the relationships each character shares with the surrounding societies. Both texts use characters to signify the role of women in society and the struggles of overcoming patriarchy and strict moral code in a sustained society. Each composer’s purpose was to bring forward a response to
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Script A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Act I A Midsummer Night’s Dream | | | | | | | | Script of Act I A Midsummer Night’s Dream The play by William ShakespeareIntroduction This section contains the script of Act I of A Midsummer Night’s Dream the play by William Shakespeare. The enduring works of William Shakespeare feature many famous and well loved characters. Make a note of any unusual words that you encounter whilst reading the script of AMidsummer Night’s Dream and check their
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may be incorporated into a play‚ or a comic situation may result in a series of complicated antics. The tradition for some of these comic devices has been carried over for hundreds of years‚ dating back to Shakespeare in the 1600’s. In his play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare creates humor through three diverse devices: oxymoron’s‚ malapropisms and mistaken identities. All result in a farcical mix of comic situations. Wordplay‚ such as the use of oxymorons‚ is an abundant source of humor
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couple we meet are Hermia and Lysander who do have true love for one and other but it yet again is being suppressed by male authority though in this case it is Hermia’s father that is forcing her to marry another man‚ Demetrius. Throughout the play‚ Hermia has to deal with her love being thwarted in one way or another. First‚ her father doesn’t want her to marry Lysander. Then Lysander seems to no longer love her. Thinking this is Helena’s fault‚ Hermia’s willing to fight Helena because‚ in her book
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ENG-112-83215 Research Essay 12 December‚ 2012 A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by William Shakespeare. This play is full of symbolism and the gender roles are not as people are used to. The play showed us how Shakespeare decided to play around a little with the gender roles and what they are really like in reality. He showed examples whether they were about family‚ friend or romance. The role of Egeus as the father of Hermia acts as if he owns her and he disposes of her as he pleases
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Lysander says‚ "The course of true love never did run smooth." Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is portrayed as complicated and difficult‚ yet Shakespeare does it in a way that is humorous and lighthearted. In this play love often brings out the worst in people‚ yet in the end it’s what brings everyone back together. Love has the ability to spellbind people as Shakespeare represents symbolically through Puck’s actions‚ and we see how intensely complicated it can be when it nearly tears apart Hermia’s
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The comedy in both Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lysistrata is portrayed through the comic characters suffering some pain. In Lysistrata the men were suffering from their wives refusing to have sexual relations until the war ends. Watching the men suffer physical pain over the sex strike brings more excitement and entertainment to the audience. Even now a days sexual content is considered humorous‚ especially when the men want it so much in this play but the women tease them and then refuse. Also whenever
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and lastly‚ as a lawyer‚ Atticus makes his decisions with and by the law no matter how difficult the situation is. Atticus is classified as the archetypal lawyer because unlike other lawyers‚ he will defend any innocent man he is appointed to without hesitation and with every bit of effort he has with justice in his mind and heart. He even defends a black man‚ Tom Robinson‚ a negro accused of rape. Back in the 1930’s‚ a white man defending a black man literally a crime which no ordinary lawyer would
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is complicated to figure out how to deal with it. It can have a good or bad ending. Confusion can occur when the love is tampered with. It can be saved with re-uniting of the love‚ and then living a happy ending. Many love connections are effected somehow either that person doing it to themselves‚ or someone else who mixes the love relationships up . Confusion within the love can cause misconception and turn into a disaster amongst each other. In Midsummer Nights Dream by Shakespeare the confusion
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Unlike A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ each of the cross-dressing characters does so as the result of conscious decision (as opposed to magical influence) and in order to attain a goal. While there are certainly a number of disguises in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” there are different motivations for characters wearing them. For Viola‚ her reasons for dressing as a young man are clear since she wants to be able to make a living in the new land she has found herself inhabiting. Although it may be a bit
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