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    Act 3 Scene 1: A Reversal of Opression Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream deals primarily with clashing ideas about love‚ an oppressive patriarchy‚ and if love should be the basis of marriage. The play does however offer hints of a need to transform the culture of the day‚ and offers women a greater say in their love or lack thereof. In the third act of the play‚ the power women possess is truly expressed‚ even if it must come about due to a man’s oppression. Further investigation of this

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    Sophia Elali Mrs. Vandenburg ENG3U 9 July‚ 2014 Diary Entries You are Lysander. In your personal diary‚ outline your plan to elope with Hermia. Why is she so wonderful? July 9‚ 1796 Dear Diary‚ I spoke to Hermia once again today. I remember when I first laid my eyes on her‚ everything I had ever known was forgotten. Her eyes sparkled as bright as the stars‚ and she sang like an angel. If not for her father‚ we would be honeymooning in the most beautiful parts of Athens

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    Comparing ’A midsummer night dream "- the play and film adaptation I have seen both the modernized version of the play and the film version of Shakespeare’s play‚ "A midsummer night dream." In this text I will compare these two versions and write a short summary of the play‚ write about how the play different from the movie and what the differences are. I will then conclude with my own opinion about the piece. There are two interesting versions with many different features‚ but they are incredibly

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    Explore the significance of setting in a Midsummer Night’s Dream. The implementation of ‘the forests wild’ could ultimately be a depiction of the story of Genesis; reflecting knowledge in the direction of the sore lovers who so desperately seek to gain each other’s infinite company despite the prohibitions of society and reality. In Genesis 2.5 when‚ ‘The LORD God took the man‚ and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it up and keep it’ is incredibly reminiscent of the careful displacement of

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    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 Hermia should either respect

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    In Shakespeare’s comedies The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummers Night Dream‚ both fathers can be overlooked due to their few occurrences‚ but are pivotal to the storyline. In the fathers’ pursuits to find favorable suitors for their daughters‚ their inattentiveness leads to the daughters choosing the men they want to marry. Bianca’s father‚ Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew is consumed with finding a suitor for his eldest daughter Katherine before Bianca‚ distracting him from Bianca’s communication

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    "Imagination in a Midsummer Night’s Dream." Shakespeare Quarterly‚ Vol. 15‚ No.2. Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University‚ 1964. pp.115-129. Print Dent’s produced an argument that the most pervasive element of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the contrasting role of imagination in love and in art. He states that "the origin of love never lies in reason." Dent also elaborates on the magic charm by which love is to be manipulated within a single night is quite naturally

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    discussing plans‚ when in came Helena chasing after Titania‚ left‚ with Nick Bottom when Titania loved Bottom. Titania‚ left‚ with Nick Bottom when Titania loved Bottom. Lysander but he kept telling her to go away and he didn’t love. Oberon saw this and since he still had the love potion he gave Puck some and told him make the young man love his lover back. Unfortunately Puck found Lysander instead of Demetrius and made Lysander fall in love with Helena. Helena did not wish to be with him and

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    The Manipulation of Love A Midsummer Night’s Dream questions the difference between realities and dreaming from the title of the play to the woods to the love potion‚ while the play itself can be viewed as reality or dream. Dream and reality can be explored in many different contexts and constantly takes place in Acts 2 and 3. There are many instances throughout the play where the characters believe they are dreaming‚ but in reality the fairies put potions on the characters to try and pursue

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    ‘Identify and evaluate the presence and execution of Shakespearean comedy tropes in A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream’ He is ostensibly the greatest play write ever‚ with the production of over 37 plays and productions that are constantly staged even now in the 21st century. But one of his more prestigious plays ‘A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream’‚ is “the best written play every produced” as quoted by Chris Hastings of The Telegraph. One of his most illustrious and famed plays which falls within the comedy

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