A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    stand up, you gotta know what falling down is like.The unknown writer of this quote talked about how you have to go through the struggle in order to know how to get through it, and this connects to the play because throughout the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the struggle of love was one of the major themes in the book. Lysander went through different obstacles and did the rest. Lysander’s quote about true love comes with a struggle is shown throughout the story through the relationships of…

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    theme of love in, is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Though this story is a bit light hearted than most of Shakespeare’s works, it still has a problematic couple that love each other passionately. Something that I have noticed about Shakespeare is that he enjoys creating characters that are imperfect by making them a captive to human emotion, in this case, the emotion is love, since it makes people act irrationally yet it also soothes their soul. Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream has many different…

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    Everybody is born with an innate fear of the dark. People instinctively abhor the unknown, and they dread the chaos and disorder that they believe lies in the shadows. Yet A Midsummer Night’s Dream challenges the notion that chaos, trickery, and deceit are perils that always end in disaster. Instead, the green world of the unknown and the disarrayed is where the four lovers: Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena finally find peace and true love. The very chaos that many impulsively dread is…

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    Control is a major theme in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare. Helena likes Demetrius but he likes Hermia. Hermia’s dad, Egeus, is making her marry Demetrius but she doesn’t want too, she likes Lysander.I believe that is possible to control other person’s actions because they use their power over someone and prays on their weakness. It’s supporting because Egeus has the right to control Hermia because Egeus is Hermia’s Father. Egeus controls Hermia by making her marry Demetrius…

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    the amazing story that is William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Each one brings a new aspect of and an air of magic. They all are able to be their own stories, but together create a masterpiece that has survived throughout the years. By way of love, magic, and the fairies is how they all combine. Dr. James Olson once said that “Mixing sprites and lovers, fantasy and reality, William Shakespeare’s work is truly A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”1 The fairies are a major part of the play.…

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    like a tree without blossoms or fruit” (Khalil Gibran). In reality, everyone falls in love and it cannot be prevented or avoided. People believe that love is a wonderful emotion where no one could come in the way and ruin it. In the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” love is not portrayed to be magical, but rather the opposite. It is shown that love is not just an emotion that people choose but instead it is something more powerful than that. It could control anyone and they could end up losing…

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    In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck serves as Shakespeare's voice in the play. He is no regular character, shown by the fact he is the only single person in the play, taking him out of both the fairy and mortal world. Puck not only uses the characters to his liking, but also his audience. Puck is the mischievous sprite who serves Oberon, the Fairy King. Puck or Robin Goodfellow is a sprite or fairy who plays annoying tricks on people or helps them out with their chores…

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    In “A MidSummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare is a romantic play about love conflicts between to “couples”. Lysander is a young man who is deeply in love with Hermia but another man named Demetrius loves her as well. Helena, Hermia’s sister loves Demetrius. Hermia is decided that she wants to marry Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. They went threw a moments of confusion because a bad character named Puck applied a love potion on Lysander's eyes which made him fall in…

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    In William Shakespeare poem “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” he shows that love can be interpreted through emotions. Nevertheless, throughout the play there were a lot of controversial situations such as the Bottom’s head and Lysander’s eyelid. The conflict between everyone in the play was that love is a powerful symbol. The potion interrupts the love connection between Bottom and Titania. It demonstrates that love is unpredictable and uncontrollable. Literary scholar Jane Brown explains that “love…

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    Shakespeare is known for his complex, dull stories; however, in his play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written in 1596, Shakespeare incorporates many comedic elements. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play about a love that goes ary in a forest when Puck starts to use magic and accidentally makes the four lovers, Lysander and Hermia and Demetrius, and Helena, love the wrong person. During this time, some Mechanics try to perform the play of Pyramus and Thisbe, which will be shown at the Duke and…

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