Changeling

Throughout the Elizabethan era women were made to obey men. A perfect representation of this is in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream where the playwright William Shakespeare depicts the relationship roles between men and women in everyday society. As Lisa Walters writes, “In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Athens is a patriarchal domain ruled by Theseus, where the ‘father should be as a god’ and Amazons are conquered and married” (157). Shakespeare’s play demonstrates the unfair power and…

For my summer reading assignment, I chose the book “Cloud and Wallfish” by Anne Nesbet. I chose this book because I prefer fiction over nonfiction and I’ve enjoyed historical fiction in the past. My thoughts on this book changed rapidly once I read the book jacket. The summary Baxter provided in the PDF compared to the summary on the book jacket were very different. Now that I have read the book, I have some thoughts. Firstly, I think that if Baxter had provided a different summary I would have…

jealous person when it comes to Titania but at the same time, he is a lover of Titania and also other women. Oberon always tries to demand his rights as Titania's husband, however, the real reason Oberon showed so much jealousy was because of the changeling…

transformation. Utilizing components of folklore and mythos, such personal stories describe a comprehension and/ or correcting of gender dysphoria by granting a seemingly enchanted bodily transformation; a revelatory discovery of individuals as gendered changelings in desperate need of transposition, or that through sheer strength of will, desires could act as catalyst to initiate physical alterations to the…

differently. “Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand into a glove, but never into the world of Jem and me. I so often wondered how she and could be Atticus’s and Uncle Jack’s sister that i revived half-remembered tales of changelings and mandrake roots that Jem had spun long ago.” (Lee 149) Scout does not think that Aunt Alexandra belongs with them, and one of the reasons is that she is judgemental. If a girl laughed in the church choir Alexandra wouldstart talking about…

Rocky Balboa is my hero and a roll model for me. Today I had the pleasure of spending my whole day with my icon, in the city of “Brotherly Love”. We met up early in the morning at his gym for our morning workout. After we finished the workout we went out to lunch at Pat’s Dinner, where I asked him questions about his teenager days. The last thing that Rocky and I did on our day was that he took me through the city and showed me many of the places of the city that meant the most to him. I…

Gender can manifest itself in many ways in the theatre. In many of Shakespeare’s plays gender is shown through marriage or love and often not the love people think is acceptable or that ends the way the characters would like. The plays Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare both end with the main characters paired off into couples. In these relationships Shakespeare has created couples that will ultimately be unhappy due to longing for a person they can’t have…

brother-at-arms or rival has.” (Nevo 6). A final example of love creating irrationality in the story is in the story of Oberon and Titania. Oberon is jealous of the attention that Titania gives to the changeling boy. So in order to retain the love of Titania, Oberon tries to eliminate the ‘threat’ the changeling child proposes to the relationship of the fairies by acquiring the boy for himself. In order to do this, he makes Titania fall out of love with him and in love with a disfigured Bottom.…

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…

with Oberon is an example of a modern day marriage. Oberon messes with Titania a lot and desperately wants their child that Titania is keeping from them. We know this because he says, “"Why should Titania cross her Oberon? / I do but beg a little changeling boy / to be my henchmen" (2.1.122-124). More examples of this would be…