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    In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is fleeting, mad and marvelous. All of the characters have different views on love. Some believe it is worth giving everything for and others believe it is worthless. The characters spend a night in a forest where they go through a roller coaster of emotions. The mischievous Oberon and Puck are the culprits for causing this roller coaster for the other characters. Lysander is a character that will do anything for love because it can go by so…

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    Symbols are used in many ways, it can symbolize the importance of something, a lesson or have a meaning. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, symbols are used to show love. From the effects of the love potion causing mix-ups between lovers. Theseus and Hippolyta representing stability through the beginning to the end. Craftsmen play representing the struggles between Hermia and Lysander are finally over. By looking at the love potion, Theseus and Hippolyta, the craftsmen…

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    In A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare, four Athenian youths struggle with the consequences of their feelings for each other. Hermia and Lysander are madly in love but cannot get married because Hermia’s father doesn’t like Lysander, so they decide to leave their families and elope together. However, their friends Helena and Demetrius have the opposite issue, where Helena endlessly follows Demetrius in pursuit of his affection, but to no avail. Both couples find themselves lost in a…

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    Have you ever fallen in love with someone who has no interest in you and doesn’t love you back? Did that person suddenly start loving you out of nowhere? In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Helena’s hunger for love brings out a desperate side in her and takes her through interesting adventures with love. One can infer that love is hurtful by how Helena reacts to love in a foolish manner and remains skeptical about it even near the end of the play. The strong effects of love…

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    STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’S FEMALE CHARACTERS In William Shakespeare 's play ‘A Midsummer Night 's Dream, ' women in the society are depicted to possess some limitations that limit their being while others are depicted to possess strengths that make them achieve in life. The world around which women live is full of limiting factors, factors that hinder the full expression of women’s interests. Examples of these situations are when Hermia’s father wanted…

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    The use of magic and supernatural power in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is evident throughout which helps to create love and fun and also mischief. In fact in this play, Shakespeare make it mysterious, comic, and romantic to grasp the audience and thus make it entertaining. Another thing to note is that imagination and many uses of supernatural powers in the story strength the play (Moffatt, 2004). Entertainment would be absent in this play if it were not for the use of supernatural…

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    Oberon, the king of fairies is one of the main characters in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” He is a very interesting character as his personality has two sides. On one side he is a kind and generous person as he helped Helena get her love Demetrius, and he wishes good for the newlywed couples. On the other hand, he can be a very jealous and when it comes to his wife Titania, he can be very mischievous and demanding. Starting off with the malicious side of Oberon, Oberon can be very demanding and…

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    In the play, A Midsummer Night 's Dream by William Shakespeare, there are four couples that all are shown to find love and happiness through a night of mischief and fairy magic. Reassuring lines, such as “To the best bride bed will we, / Which by us shall blessèd be. / And the issue there create / Ever shall be fortunate. / So shall all the couples three / Ever true in loving be” (5.1.17) promise a happy ending for everyone. But would this actually be the case, even with fairy magic? It 's…

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love is Not Always Easy According to Wikipedia “A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by William shakespeare in 1595/96” but is still relatable to some people. The play A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeares most popular performances and one of the themes is that love is not always easy, I will be showing how that theme follows in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In a Midsummer Night’s, Titania shows that love is not easy in the play. Titania shows this…

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    behind most of the action in the plays. In both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello, the nature of love is communicated in two different ways. The first way is that love is a random, irrational, and blind power that individuals will risk everything to hold onto. The second interpretation is that love is an illusion; it is not everlasting or unstoppable. These two interpretations of the nature of love are very similar in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and in Othello. The key act shows the…

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