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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…

Dreams typically reveal a person’s innermost desires in life that they don’t act upon in reality. In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare, Hermia’s dream conveys her unconscious desire yearning for Lysander’s true love reveals the play’s argument that a person’s vulnerabilities and most impulsive desire lie where one is not influenced by the consciousness and influence of others. Based on the psychology of the details Hermia reveals about her dream revolving around…

Correspondingly, the love juice’s effect on Titania addresses the artificialness of young love. Titania, controlled by the juice, became madly in love with Bottom, a man whose head was turned into a literal ass. Shakespeare continues to add to the idea of untrue love through Titania’s words when she says to Bottom “thou art as wise as thou art beautiful…and I do love thee” (3.1.131,138). This further illustrates how this love is only that of appearances and not of deep and meaningful emotion. A…

Being clever and proud of oneself is healthy, but an egotistic nature and slyness is not. In William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck, a fairy and servant of Oberon, exhibits these traits. He is self-centered and loves to make a joke out of others by fooling them. Through Puck’s speech and actions, he can be characterized as mischievous and arrogant. Puck is displayed as mischievous through his actions done on other characters. When Puck is communicating with an unnamed fairy, the…

A story can contain a character who has an enormous amount of intellect and uses it to play tricks on others. These characters are called tricksters and they each have special, unique elements. A trickster character always tries to get what they want. Trickster tales contain humorous and clownish elements, negative qualities of the trickster character and gods, spirits and the supernatural. In every story there are always funny moments. An element from trickster tales is humorous and clownish…

“Feathers Alive…Where’s the exit?” chirped Tru nervously; anxious to get Blacky and Curly out of the laboratory before Blackball recovered. “Wuff Wuff! The black button Blackball sits on; let’s check it out!” barked Curly. “Baahh…I can’t wait to take one last peek inside his laboratory!!” baaed Blacky excitedly. “Could you Tru and Curly, just check Blackball’s black button without me?” Blacky tiptoed nervously around the laboratory expecting Blackball to pounce from every corner, but…

Did you know Hermia being tortured by a law? Well, The Duke of Athens, Theseus, declared this law when him and Hermia’s father were discussing issues to each other. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Hermia was affected harshly by the her father and the Athenian Law. Hermia was treated unfairly by her father and the Athenian law because she either had to marry Demetrius, be killed, or become a nun. The first reason Hermia’s choices were unfair is because she had to marry…

Feminism Topic #1: Feminism: Women in the time of Romeo and Juliet are expected to follow orders. Men control society. Juliet, however, defies this role. She is flirtatious with Romeo, and the two even kiss. Juliet proposes marriage to Romeo and defies her parents’ wishes to marry another. Explain Juliet’s role as a feminist. Compare and contrast feminism in Elizabethan times and feminism today. How are men and women treated differently?In Romeo and juliet written by William Shakespeare…

Emily Dickinson, enigmatic as always, is in fine form in this poem as she floats through beautifully veiled metaphors and tantalizing descriptions to depict her fascination and enthusiasm with the natural world. She uses the metaphor of insobriety to paint a vivid picture of the sometimes overwhelming aspects of nature. "I taste a liquor never brewed- From Tankards scooped in Pearl- Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an Alcohol!" These are four interconnected and…

A relationship is the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected. There are many healthy and unhealthy relationships in the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is a classic play about two star crossed lovers, whose relationship can be put up for debate if it’s healthy or not. A relationship that certainly is healthy in this play is Romeo and Mercutio. Romeo and Mercutio are best friends who would do…