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    Good afternoon‚ I wanted to thank you for picking me for the role of Tatania in A Midsummer Night Dream; however‚ the image you betray her as‚ needs to improve. Tatania is a strong‚ independent woman – not the soft-spoken feeble girl. In act two‚ scene one‚ when Tatania and Oberon argue about who should have the ownership of the changeling boy‚ Tatania sticks to her opinions of having the boy “…Not for thy fairy kingdom. —Fairies‚ away! We shall chide downright‚ if I longer stay… ”. She threatens

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    As 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

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    A Midsummer Night Dream is a play written by the late William Shakespeare. This play is about a love triangle how one loves the other when the other does not like them until finally it all ends in a resolution‚ as they have a secret fairy world looking over at them‚ this play is almost like a mix between the fantasy world and the real! Bottom is one of the characters in this play‚ and in this play Bottom is a humorous and confident character‚ although being intelligent in other fields Bottom is not

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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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    "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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    beginning of the book Claudia wakes up in her bedroom with a man that she has just spent the night with and her room is filled messy and is filled with things like empty bottles of alcohol and ash trays.
Her room also didn’t comply with typical feminine ideas at the time because it was described as messy and also had an empty bottle of alcohol and a full ashtray. This didn’t go along with the typical roles of women because they were expected to be clean and sensible.
She has a very masculine way of speaking

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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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    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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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the exploration and themes of love Throughout Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ there are many occasions where the characters face challenges with each others relationships. A Midsummer Night’s Dream focuses on the exploration of love in its many different forms. Some of these forms of love shown in A Midsummer Night’s Dream include forced love‚ parental love and unrequited love. Forced love is shown

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    One of the most noticeable and entertaining elements of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream is the presence of the fairies. Titania‚ Oberon‚ Puck‚ and the attendant fairies all affect the human beings in the woods‚ and provide hints into the fairy kingdom. Although Shakespeare applies several important aspects of the Elizabethan belief in fairies to A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare changes the idea of fairies not only within the context of the play‚ but for all time. One aspect of

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