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    mischievous but joyful character an example of puck being a bad character is when he turned bottoms head into an asses head he did this for his own enjoyment. another example of puck being a bad character is when he made Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia and Helena fall in love with the wrong people. Puck will never own up to responsibility or admit to his wrong doing. When puck turned bottoms head into an asses head he thought it was humorous and did it over his own enjoyment although, his master…

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    The reason Helena cannot accept Lysander’s confession is because her self esteem is too low. She has compared herself to Hermia and said she is too ugly for Demetrius’ love. She says this quote in Act Two, “Happy is Hermia, wheresoe’er she lies,/ For she hath blessèd and attractive eyes./ How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears./ If so, my eyes are oftener washed than hers./ No, no, I am as ugly as a bear,/ For beasts that meet me run away for fear,” (II.ii 96-101). Helena compares…

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    Adolf Hitler had an important influence on his people in Germany. This influence originated from an idea called supernatural supremacy. Even though Hitler did not create supernatural supremacy, he had a very big influence on it. Hitler’s influence on supernatural supremacy was because of its occult root, the Hitler youth, and Hitler’s propaganda. Supernatural Supremacy is the belief that one race or group of people or things were better than others . This means that they thought they were…

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    still” (1.1.194) Even though Hermia has her eyes out for Lysander, Demetrius still loves her. Demetrius still continues to want to marry her no matter the unusual circumstances. The author continues, “O, wilt thou darkling leave me, do not so” (2.2.86) Helena is stating here that she does not want Demetrius to leave her alone. She would rather be with him, even if he is in love with Hermia instead. “‘Thou art as wise as thou are beautiful’”said Titania,”Not so, neither, but if I had wit enough…

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    Shakespeare in 1595/96. 3. The exposition is the father was empowered by this law to cause her to be put to death. The rising action is a fairy named Robin Goodfellow tries to solve the love triangle and accidentally makes Lysander fall in love with Helena. The climax is puck Robin manages to separate them all so they don't end up killing each other. The falling action is the Duke happens to be riding in the forest and stumbles upon the lovers and after hearing their story. The denouement is…

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    Some people believe that exaggerated control can end up in good a outcome but in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, several events occur that prove this wrong. In this play, there are many different love related situations that end up in negative positions. These situations end up this way because someone/something exerts too much control over a person or object. An early example of excessive control is Egeus. At the start of the story Egeus goes to Theseus to try…

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    situations in which disparities and inequality interfere with the harmony of relationships. The most obvious example of this imbalance is the asymmetric love among four young Athenians: Hermia loves Lysander, Lysander loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius, but, instead Helena - Demetrius loves Hermia (“And here am I, and wode within this wood, / Because I cannot meet my Hermia. / Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more”) - a simple numerical imbalance in which two young men love the same…

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    force his daughter into loving someone she does not love, Egeus can make his daughter do things she does not want to but he cannot make her love someone. In the woods people can use magic to make the lovers think they are in love. Love is a paradox. Helena loves Demetrius even though he hates her, and vice…

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    In this story Oberon gives Robin, or Puck, something to put on Demetrius’s eyes that will make him fall in love with Helena, but Puck mistakes someone else for Demetrius & puts it on them, causing everything to go wrong. Oberon tells Puck to put it on Demetrius’s eyes “...A sweet Athenian lady is in love with a young man who wants nothing to do with her. Put some of this…

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    Osborne's Life: John Osborne was born in 1929 in a London suburb, of a lawyer middle-class parents. He was educated in London in a boarding school where he developed a passion for acting and for writing plays, but in 1946 he left school and worked for two trade magazines. In 1948 he became an actor and shortly after an actor-manager, continuing to write his own plays especially during his periods of unemployment. In 1956 he wrote Look Back in Anger, which was produced at the Royal Court Theatre…

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