A Midsummer Night's Dream

Act III Scene i- Writing for Yourself: The start of Act Three begins with the men preparing for the play. Robin comes in the middle of it and starts causing mischief, such as turning Bottom’s head into a donkey’s head. I do not understand why or how he did this but the rest of Bottom’s friends freak out and run away from him. Bottom starts walking and singing in the woods, when he wakes up Queen Titania, who has the magic potion on her eyes. She suddenly falls in love with Bottom and his donkey…

In E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Sandman,” Nathanael falls in love with the object of his desires, the devastatingly gorgeous Olympia. Nathanael worships Olympia for her beauty, her muteness, and her lack of opinion. Eventually though, Nathanael realizes that Olympia is an automaton and has no substances because she is constructed merely to be the most perfect looking woman. Similarly, In Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides, The Lisbon sisters are worshipped solely for their bodies prohibiting them from…

The goblins in Goblin Market are meant to represent the archetype rake character who attempts to take the sisters’ virtue. Although described with animalistic traits, or the general label of ‘goblin’ identifying them as mythic creatures, the seducers of the poem are men. The use of describing them as various animals, highlights the seeming ‘animalistic’ quality of the human being or the male instinct to take a woman’s virginity (Rossetti Lines 69-77). However, similarly to the ‘Rake’ characters…

The Juxtaposition of the Themes on Oppositions and Congruencies on A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen The play A Doll’s House was written by Henrik Ibsen in the 18th century. The dramatist wanted to emphasize on the characteristics of Nora and hence he used Mrs Linde, the foil of Nora to put a light on the differences between the two characters. The two characters in the play - Nora and Mrs Linde who are similar yet have distinct personalities. However, the biggest common ground between them is…

feelings and thus the only thing he can do is mock and laugh and joke with it. He continues being anti-feminist and dirty minded by using medlar as a metaphor for a woman's private parts. Another example is when Romeo and Mercutio were sharing their dreams “Oh, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you”(1.4.54). In this quote we can tell that Mercutio doesn’t have respect towards females. In the beginning he was encouraging Romeo to go talk to Juliet while he was supposed to marry another girl.…

The movement of Cleopatra's barge from the Cydnus River to Tarsus was a very prolific arrival that caught the attention of numerous individuals, especially Marc Antony. The two recounts depicted in Shakespeare's literature and the Cleopatra film offer slightly similar, but largely different stories of how the event occurred. Shakespeare used much more colorful language in order to depict it the story such as when he described Cleopatra's boat by saying "The poop was beaten gold, purple the…

Romeo and Juliet (1966), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) were all very different. They all told the story differently and had their own individual strengths and weaknesses. Romeo + Juliet (1996) had quite a few strengths and weaknesses. I think the biggest strengths in the movie were the use of modern technology, the exaggerated storytelling, and the use of Olde English. The use of modern technology strengthened the movie because it made it easier to understand; when you’re…

All Summer in a Day: Theme Essay Have you ever been jealous of someone else's experiences and life? Everyone has to be jealous of something; Jealousy is not a good thing, as you should be happy that something good happened to someone else, otherwise that is just selfish, greedy and egotistical. This short story ‘All Summer in a day’ is a very good example of jealousy and selfishness, as a young girl, who is different, makes her classmates jealous involuntarily, and that leads to them bullying…

The differences between goblins, dwarfs and fairies in Victorian fairy tales The appearance of fantastic creatures and figures is very common in fairy tales. These characters usually serve as the support of the protagonist, who encounters various problems that cannot be solved alone, or they become the antagonist in the story trying to prevent the main character from achieving his or her goal. The aim of this essay is to highlight the differences between supernatural creatures that appear in…

The quote: "Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps" is expressed throughout William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and William Butler Yeats' "When You Are old". This quote conveys that love can come to people either directly with "arrows" or through manipulation with "traps", but Cupid is always the one who decides their fate. Much Ado About Nothing is full of representations of this quote, where couples fall in love naturally or due to deception all because of Cupid's plans. "When…