A Midsummer Night's Dream

Have you ever thought controlling another person is possible? In the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, the author demonstrates that it is not possible to control someone else’s actions. Although you think your way is the best, the results can end up not being in your favor and short-lived. In the play by Shakespeare, two important characters demonstrate that you can not control the actions of another character. First off, Egeus, who is the father of young beautiful Hermia.…

of something. Money is the root of all evil, but greed is the stem for such root. Such an evil plant will only yield a bitter fruit. Or the other way to name the fruit is repercussion. This ideology could be applied in the tale Midsummers night dream. Midsummers night dream is a tale of four lovers being subjected to physical, emotional, and judicial constraints. Amusingly true love can drive a person insane. It is insane enough to make tough decisions like eloping within minutes. The four…

Females Feeling More Pain As I was reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the stories “Narcissus and Echo” and “Pyramus and Thisbe” stood out to me the most. The stories brought me to a time of my life that was very dark. I went to my best friend’s house one day, and told me that she was in love with an ex-boyfriend of mine, who happen to be her neighbor. She was going to ask him out as soon as he comes out of his house. She looked so happy, but I knew this guy and I did not want to see her hurt. Before…

William Shakespeare’s play, Midsummer Night, portray that there are natural law and society law. These two laws symbolize a balance in the world. Without one, the world will be imbalance. However, evidence of King Oberon’s actions demonstrate to the reader that he is a tyrant in the play. Based on King Oberon’s actions toward cheating on his significant other while there are couples who are willing to sacrifice themselves for love, toward the Indian boy, and toward the use of the love potion,…

Similarly, these tales share similar fragments of plot where the character Shrek, in both Steig’s “Shrek!” and Anderson’s Shrek, journey to get a princess, encounter a donkey, slay a dragon in pursuing a princess, and marry the princess. In both “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” and Shrek the rescuer saves the princess and marries her and each story includes a villainous character that tries to hurt the princess for his/her own gain, as Lord Farquaad desired to become king by marrying Fiona and the…

“The act of love is largely the art of persistence,” said Albert Ellis. This concept could be brought into Shakespeare’s comedy, Twelfth Night, where the character Orsino was madly in love with the character Olivia; however, after learning that Olivia had already married Sebastian, Orsino transfers his love to Sebastian's sister, Viola, and marries her. Very similarly, although Olivia was in love with Cesario (Viola) she also then transfers her love to Sebastian after she had realized that she…

The comic subplots in Shakepeare’s Twelfth Night and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus function in the overall structures of the plays in many ways. Specifically, I argue that they parallel the main plot, emphasizing the theme of self-love that dominates the main plot. Within Twelfth Night, the emphasis that is placed on the theme of self-love is prominent from the moment the play begins. For example, it opens with the following speech by Orsino to himself: “If music be the food of love, play on/Give me…

(Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet both experience obstacles due to who they truly are. Each of their individual identities play a crucial part in the play as well as in their actions and motives, undeniably affecting themselves and those around them.) Romeo and Juliet come from wealthy families that are respected and admired in Verona. Unfortunately, the Montagues’ and the Capulets’ intense hatred for one another pose as a challenge for Romeo and Juliet’s love. The current feud between the…

Nora Scene 12 Analysis Paper In Nora there is a handful of characters who share the stage in Ingmar Bergman’s adapted version of A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen. In this small ensemble of characters, two seemed to speak to me the most. Those characters were Nils Krogstad, the antagonist, and Christine Linde, the supporting female. While reading the script none of the characters felt real, I felt disconnected to the other lot of them, but, I could understand the struggles of Mrs. Linde and…

Feminism Topic #1: Feminism: Women in the time of Romeo and Juliet are expected to follow orders. Men control society. Juliet, however, defies this role. She is flirtatious with Romeo, and the two even kiss. Juliet proposes marriage to Romeo and defies her parents’ wishes to marry another. Explain Juliet’s role as a feminist. Compare and contrast feminism in Elizabethan times and feminism today. How are men and women treated differently?In Romeo and juliet written by William Shakespeare…