A Midsummer Night's Dream

Steven Lee 9B 12/28/15 Theme Paragraph for Trickery and Deception In The Odyssey , Penelope affects the suitors’ lives by tricking them into believing that Penelope will pick a suitor to marry after she is done weaving a fake burial shroud for Laertes because she has faith in Odysseus- that he will return home safely. Because Odysseus is slow to return after the Trojan War, Penelope’s home is plagued by suitors who want to marry her. Unfortunately these suitors also have overstayed their…

My group chose to depict the scene where Hermia finds her friends in the woods. She has found Lysander, her love, now in love with Helena because of a love potion Puck mistakenly puts on him. She also finds Demetrius, who was courting her and seemed to hate Helena but is now in love with Helena due to the efforts Oberon put into fixing Puck's mistake. And we also find Helena who thinks this is all a joke and that everybody is just trying to mess with her. We chose this scene because it had…

The title gives the readers a piece of ironic flavour because of the play on words. While the climb occurs on April Fools day, Roddan concludes that the two climbers are also "The April fools, married with fear and laughter on Polar Circus". Clearly, many would perceive them as fools for undertaking such a dangerous climb, especially at that time of the year. However, Roddan challenges the skeptics with her thesis "The tango with fear makes me wise" through which she reveals a central paradox:…

What is love? Aside from being an excellent song by Haddaway, it is a favorite subject and theme of William Shakespeare’s work. In the play A Midsummer’s Night Dream, A tale of four people Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena who go into a forest and encounter some fairies and leave ready to marry each other which they do along with Theseus the king of Athens and his beloved Hippolyta queen of the amazons (no not the online shopping company). It also happens to be one of Shakespeare’s most…

Love is hopeless. Love is fruitless. Love is good. Love is stupid. Love is kind. Love is biblical. Love is spiritual. Love confuses me. Love is scary. Love can be described as nothing besides love. Love is always in the air, that’s why there are so many b***** children such as the demon, elf child Pearl in the Scarlet Letter. Teenage love is especially terrifying, due to its unpredictability. Do Romeo and Juliet ring a bell? That nymphomaniac Juliet had Romeo committing suicide for her, or was…

Oberon and Robin Oberon. I believe Oberon would be better suited for today's world. In Shakespeare’s Fantasy/Comedy A Midsummer's Night Dream, There are four intertwined lovers playing for each others hearts. Along with the lovers there are everyday people practicing for plays and royalty preparing for their weddings. Behind the scenes though there are fairies. A King, A Queen and their loyalists. These fairies are here to make all well, but as the king and queen bicker about custody of a child…

An Influence Never Forgotten Regardless of age or ethnicity, at some point during life, most people read and even quote Shakespeare. Through his writing, Shakespeare shaped many areas of modern life including speech, future writers, and standards of entertainment. His impacted the English language tremendously, coining many common phrases which people use in everyday language. In addition to this huge contribution on languages, Shakespeare created a well known style of sonnet which many poets…

Halloween is the only day of the year when wearing a scary costume, asking strangers for food, and scaring people is acceptable. Being a clown would be the best Halloween costume, even though it would be more tricks than treats. To the regular eye clowns seem cute and funny, but some see the real truth behind them. Clowns are sinister. A clown is one of the most scary things, making it the perfect Halloween costume. Clowns are real, unlike monsters or zombies. Clowns are at birthday parties,…

Throughout many Greek myths whether it is The Quest of the Golden Fleece or the heroic story of Theseus, love is a major player in the events that unfolds. Medea’s love for Jason and Ariadne’s love for Theseus had both played a big role in the success of each hero’s respective missions. The role of love may be important but the pursuit of love is just as important because it affects the characters emotionally and physically as well as lead to unanticipated events. In one particular myth, a…

Constantin Stanislavski was born in Russia in 1863 and disproved of the acting style at the time, he felt performances did not reflect reality as acting techniques were mechanical and lacked real feelings. To counter this overused system Stanislavski formed his own acting school and devised a system to help actors bring reality into their performances, today this is known as 'Method Acting' or more simply, 'The Method'. In the Shakespeare duologue my partner and I have produced I used some of…