Helena Essay

I think William Shakespeare is saying that love is great, deep, and amazing. But he also made it clear that it's not easy, and you have to fight for what you love no matter who's trying to stop you. Throughout the play many character, especially Helena and Hermia hit a bumpy road in their relationships. For example, during the play Lysander said “Love never did run smooth.” This supports what I was saying because although Lysander loves Hermia, he was straight with her and told her that…

Through reading the Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, it was very attention-grabbing to read how the past can and will come back to haunt you. The Murder on the Orient Express greatly justifies how ones pasts actions can catch up to them for the worse. Christie is able to relive this crime throughout the book by several different key efforts. It is obvious that after reading a few chapters that Christie incorporated several facts from the Lindbergh case in order to really allow…

“Media Violence Exposure and Physical Aggression in Fifth-Grade Children” is a report by Tumaini R. Coker et al. that shares the methods, findings, and discussion of the correlation between media violence and physical aggression. In their report, Coker et al. ultimately find that there is a positive association between media violence and physical aggression. Other factors, such as mental health, surrounding neighborhood, and family related factors that can contribute to a rise in aggression in…

What distinguishes Shakespeare from other playwrights of his time is his versatility. A Midsummer Night’s dream is Shakespeare’s first comedy, and overall play, that dwells into the realm of fantasy. As plots intertwine, so do different types of humor that are related through a wide array of comedic devices. The bard is in complete control of these devices and uses them to their fullest potential. The Athenian lovers’ plot is the "quintessential comedy of love" (Croce, 386) and subsequently, the…

Michael Hoffman's 1999 film interpretation of A Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare is quite different than the original play, most noticeably in regards to style of reading and character representation. The film turns characters such as Duke Theseus of Athens and mischievous fairy Puck into less complicated versions of themselves in order to appeal to the larger audience. This did not come without backlash, as many would argue that this in fact took away the deeper meaning…

How Athens begets the Wild: The Heart vs. the Mind Love! An intense feeling of deep affection, or a person or thing that one loves, or to feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to (someone). There’s many levels and types of “ love ”, people can define or explain it in many ways. The feeling can make things change, it can make people change, it can cause feelings of hatred or adoration, it can make people act like fools. It can add meaning to life, it can cause ultimate sacrifices, it can…

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in the play, and it is definitely not the best kind. Forced love is what sparks most of the main conflict in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A second example of forced love is when Puck and Oberon use the magical herb to make Demetrius fall in love with Helena, and he has no choice but to love her. This is the only relationship where forced love that actually turns out for the…

We had never seen them before, but soon their daughter, Helena, and I became friends. Helena was tall and as skinny as the hand of a bug. She looked amusing to me because she had rectangular shaped objects close together attached to her teeth. I did not know this was braces until my sister had to get one. She took me to her…

My Chemical Romance: Possible Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee My Chemical Romance first started making music in New Jersey in 2001. Later, the next year they made their first album called “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love,” produced by Eyeball Records (AllMusic). The band ended up leaving that record company for Reprise Records the following year, and also created their second album “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (AllMusic).” In the upcoming year they had to replace the…