Helena Bonham Carter

Making an Ass out of Laws Shakespeare is widely known as an English poet, playwright, and actor, and is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. On the other hand, students of today’s culture tend to think, why are Shakespearean writings, written some 400 years ago, still relevant in today’s English classes? Even though Shakespearean plays use archaic vocabulary that usually require the use of a thesaurus or an English teacher to understand, the fundamental ideas of 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…

"adoration triangle" with Hermia at the peak and Helena being practically non-existent. Both men worshipped Hermia, asking for her acknowledgement, and attempting to pick up her dad's trust. As the comic drama advances, the triangle moves mysteriously in an unexpected way. Lysander, who in one moment is frantically infatuated with Hermia, all of a sudden stirs to get himself fixated on Helena. Demetrius likewise began to look all starry eyed at Helena, encountering an indistinguishable craving…

Personal Statement 4. Explain unicorns. “What do you know about unicorns?” the man across from me asked, pushing up his glasses. I blinked, caught off-guard by the question from this new chairman. What was he talking about? “Unicorns?” I stuttered. He only nodded. “W-well, I don’t know?” I hesitantly replied. Did he really just pull me out of class to ask about unicorns? Is he crazy? He watched me, his sharp eyes narrowing before shaking his head sadly. “You must think I’m crazy…” Bingo. You…

. . it starts April 29th and ends May 1st” according to ww.Shakespeare-online.com. Over this period of time almost all of it Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, and Lysander were all constantly in a love circle (Shakespeare 3.2.260). The potions were being used on each person but they were waking up to the wrong person , so they were falling in love with the wrong person and were leaving their…

Midsummer Night’s Dream Rough Draft Shakespeare unfortunately died on his birthday. A Midsummer’s Night Dream, the play is about a controversial circle of relationships. Hermia is a girl in love with Lysander but he father is completely against her love. Hermia’s decisions to disrespect her father and run away affect the plot of the play by causing controversy in the woods. There is a girl named Hermia who is deeply in love with someone named Lysander, but her father doesn’t approve of…

Isherwood's article about Midsummer Night's Dream is a very deep and thoughtful article. He has many valid points. Throughout the article, he continues to talk about how the negativity in the play overbears the love and humor. He uses quotes like "I noticed, among other things, how variations on the word “hate” recurs with startling frequency". This shows how he focuses and sees more hate than love. Theseus and Hippolyta are preparing for their wedding and there are many happy quotes during…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream In the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Shakespeare, the characters experience very strange happenings when the venture into the woods. One man experienced having the queen of the fairies fall in love with him leading to having her servant fairies wait on him treating him like royalty while he had an ass’ head. Meanwhile four loves found themselves becoming tangled in a very confused and oddly shaped love triangle. With the many occurrences of dreaming combined with…

the dispute between Hermia and Egeus; the play, put together by laborers for Theseus’s wedding; the dispute between Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of the fairies, over a changeling; and finally the story of Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena. At the end of the story, Shakespeare manages to tie them all together for a comical and happy ending. The frame story consists of the marriage between Theseus and Hippolyta. Theseus is the Duke of Athens. Hyppolita is queen of the Amazons,…

Is love at first sight a real thing? Can it be real love, if it is? These are questions that were asked about Claudio and Hero’s relationship in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Claudio is a bachelor. He is a soldier, not looking for a woman until he meets Hero. Hero is the daughter of the governor of Messina. She is gorgeous, yet doesn’t have much to say on her own account, so she is almost always told what to, and she listens. Claudio and Hero ‘fall in love’ from the second…