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    was overwhelming from my teachers‚ family and people generally and this brought out my latent gift in the world of entertainment. The support I was given‚ propelled me to do more and this earned me a role in the popular Shakespeare play “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”. I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of this

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is a play that mainly revolves around two important things‚ mischief and love. Puck‚ one of the main characters is very mischievous with the other characters in the play. One group Puck is mischievous towards are the mechanicals. Puck turns Bottom into an ass. He also interacted with the fairies. He made Titania fall in love with Bottom‚ and as to the young lovers Puck made Helena think she was being mocked. Puck and his

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    or depending on your age. Love can be temporary‚ infatuation‚ or it can be forever‚ true love. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ love is displayed at all level. Regardless of the age‚ views of society‚ traditional oppositions against it‚ or how crazy it makes lovers‚ Shakespeare displays the idea that true love always wins. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare uses various different ways to show his ideal that true love always wins. One of his main ideas is that no matter what

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    How does Shakespeare use the theme of love in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’? Shakespeare uses the theme of love to show how complicated love can be; Hermia falling in love with Lysander and Egeus not allowing her to get married to Lysander. Lysander and Hermia try to figure things out between themselves and their forbidden love‚ “The course of true love never did run smooth”. On the other hand Shakespeare uses comical love with Helena’s unrequited love for Demetrius. Helena is so sad she calls herself

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    Why is Love Making Me Mad? In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Love is the running theme. As such it takes on many different forms and characteristics like extreme wanting‚ over protection and true love. Each character runs through the emotion called love in the own very unique way. Take extreme wanting for instance; Helena is going through this for her love of Demetrius. She wants him so bad it borders the line of being a stalker‚ which is not a good thing because Demetrius has

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    William Shakespeare is famous for his timeless plays and poems that multiple classes‚ as well as eras‚ can enjoy. In this particular production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream used many modern ideas to improve the audience’s understanding of the play. Along with the use of vocal expression‚ props and sets help develop the story further. Bicycles‚ created in 1817‚ were not present in Shakespeare’s life‚ and therefore not in his plays‚ either. However‚ the 1999 film used bikes for many

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    Infatuation is the state of being completely carried away by unreasoning passion or love. Infatuation is clearly displayed in the play‚ A Midsummer’s Night Dream‚ by William Shakespeare when four lovers go into the forest and fall under the spell of fairies. The fairies tamper with the lovers by putting them under spells causing them to be infatuated. The play portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens‚ Theseus‚ and the Queen of the Amazons‚ Hippolyta. The four young Athenians

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    Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream a play centering around lovers‚ performers‚ and mischievous fairies in a forest outside of Athens. There are 3 subplots within the play that take place throughout the night: a love rectangle‚ preparation for a play for the Duke’s wedding‚ and a feud between the king and queen of the fairies. These subplots however‚ all become intertwined with one another as the play goes on. Two of the subplots have very distinguishable characters‚ but one of them‚ specifically

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    influenced by a love potion. This aspect of love is shown especially in the magical woods right outside of Athens‚ where fairies galavant in the trees‚ actors have donkey heads‚ and four lovers fall in and out of infatuation. The story of A Midsummer’s Night Dream begins as any good story would‚ with a complex love triangle and arranged marriages. Hermia‚ daughter of controlling Egeus‚ was promised to Demetrius‚ but is in love with Lysander. Not to mention Hermia’s best friend Helena is madly infatuated

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    Shakespeare conveys his ridicule of love through various methods in A Midsummer’s Night Dream such as portraying love as a game through Helena and Demetrius’ one-sided love and incorporating a love potion which is bound to result in comedy. Usually when a confession of love is not reciprocated the person takes the hint‚ yet Helena struggles to understand that Demetrius‚ “in plainest truth”‚ tells her he does “not‚ nor [he] cannot‚ love” her and continues to express his annoyance (II.i.185-186). Demetrius’

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