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    University of Phoenix Material Romantic Love in Shakespeare’s Plays Part 1: Compare in the matrix the way romantic love is treated in the comedies‚ tragedies‚ and romances. Themes Comedies Tragedies Romances Barriers to fulfillment of desire In A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is the one thing that that can give fulfillment of desire. Henry V has barriers to fulfill the desire of his people and to keep bringing them peace and happiness. The barriers that I see to fulfillment

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    Austin Green-Paxton 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

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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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    A Midsummer Nights Dream‚ by William Shakespeare is a play about love‚ fantasy‚ and magic. In a passage in Act I scene i‚ Hermia has just refused to marry Demetrius‚ going against her fathers demands. This enrages her father‚ so her father brings her to Theseus‚ where the passage begins with Theseus telling Hermia that she must marry Demetrius or become a nun. In this passage‚ Shakespeare conveys the idea that people are often inconsiderate when reacting to others misfortunes. Shakespeare shows

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    Love Gone Wrong Thanks to Fairies The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smoothly Love Gone Wrong Thanks to Fairies The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smoothly This Midsummer’s day there was a lot conflict in the fairy world‚ Queen Titania and King Oberon fighting over a changeling child and many other lovers disrupted in this fuss. Not long ago Titania‚ Queen of Fairyland‚ adopted a changeling child‚ she loved him and didn’t want to give him up‚ so when Oberon‚ King of Fairyland‚ decided

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    I am Kaitlyn Luepann and I am portraying the fairy attendants Peaseblossom‚ Bottom‚ Cobweb‚ and the “jester fairy” Puck From William Shakespeare’s play‚ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” I will be portraying all these characters as one character with characteristics of all four. The ways I am going to adapt the characters that I am portraying are for me to have a witty sense of humour‚ yet have common courtesy and manners‚ and have respectful body language and a humourous tone of voice because the three

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    Gelsix Delgado EN110-44 7/6/14 Professor Saporito “A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Think with the Heart and not with the Mind” In “Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare; Helena describes the undying love that she feels for Demetrius and can’t understand why he does not reciprocate the same. Helena envies her friend Hermia’s and Lysander’s happiness and wishes that she had the same with Demetrius. Although everyone in Athens believes that she is just as pretty as Hermia; Demetrius does not

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    Mandy Conway Mrs. Guynes English 12 16 March 2000 A Critical Analysis of "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" William Shakespeare‚ born in 1594‚ is one of the greatest writers in literature. He dies in 1616 after completing many sonnets and plays. One of which is "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." They say that this play is the most purely romantic of Shakespeare’s comedies. The themes of the play are dreams and reality‚ love and magic. This extraordinary play is a play-with-in-a-play‚ which

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    r Crystin Johnson Mr. Kelley English 102 3 Apr. 2013 Theseus: the Duke of Athens In A MidsummerNight’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ Theseus is the duke of Athens. Theseus is perceived as a wise ruler. He has recently defeated Hippolyta’s land. He is madly in love with Hippolyta. Recently‚ they become engaged. The play is centered around their wedding. Shakespeare uses Theseus to show the difference between a perfect ruler and a ruler who lacks power and does not possess the ability

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Question Four a) There are many instances where the love potion “love-in-idleness is used in the play. The function of this love potion is to make someone fall in love with the first person/creature the see when awoken. The first instance where the love potion is used is when Oberon put’s the love potion on Titania’s eyes. The reason for this was is simply because Titania refuses to hand over the changeling boy. Oberon thinks that if Titania is so infatuated‚ she will

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