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    Once upon a time in a land far away, A duke named Theseus, the most prestigious of Athens, was due to marry the love of his live, Hippolyta. To celebrate he planned to throw a large festival. Whilst working on the plans, a fellow nobleman, Egeus, entered with his daughter Hermia and two other men. Egeus explained that out of the two men, one, Demetrius, was due to marry Hermia. This would all have gone to plan if it wasn’t for Lysander, the man Hermia had fallen in love with. To resolve the…

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    The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare was a wild ride from start from to finish. Everything that happened in this play was very entertaining; from the conflicted love triangle, the performance of a play within a play, to the unique characters within the story. The most intriguing relationship was between the characters, Puck and Bottom, as there were similarities and contrast between the two of them. For one, They are both comical characters, as well as the comic…

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    all characters in the play working towards the greater good for all who were involved. By the end of the play Hermia and Lysander were able to achieve what they had set out to do and they were able to elope in good graces with Egeus at Theseus and Hippolyta 's wedding. Without Puck and all the conflict he stirred up with cupid 's potion, this dramatic comedy would have had nothing. In the final part of the play Puck mentions that all of this could just be a dream and to not even worry about…

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    Strength and Weakness in A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s Female Characters “And though she be but little, she is fierce” (III.2). In William Shakespeare 's comedy A Midsummer Night 's Dream, women in society are depicted to both possess some limitations that are stereotypically weak while others are depicted to possess more strength than they show in ordinary society. The world around which women lived during this time was full of limiting factors, factors that hinder the full…

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    In the play, A Midsummer 's Night Dream, the audience is introduced to three, young, beautiful women known as Hermia, Helena, and Titania. Each of these women have different qualities that make up who they are as a character. Hermia portrays herself as strong - willed and independent. Helena however, presents herself as feeble yet persistent. Titania depicts herself as mystical, majestic, and compassionate. Despite these women having different traits, they all share something in common. In the…

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    In Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the two authors display differing views of women. Christine de Pizan shines a positive light on the role of women and shows their worth, while Geoffrey Chaucer's work reflects women in a much more negative manner and more as property and objects. These two works mirror the overarching views men and women had for women in the fifteenth century. At the very beginning of The Book of the City of…

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    easy to see that they are quite different. Hippolytus, written by Euripides and first performed in 428 BCE, is a Greek play about a stepmother, Phaedra, who falls in love with her stepson, Hippolytus. Hippolytus is the son of the Amazonian warrior Hippolyta and Theseus, the Athenian hero and king who is married to Phaedra. Hippolytus is a devout follower of Artemis, the virgin goddess of the hunt, and he has completely written off having sex and getting married, which angers Aphrodite, the…

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    While Eurocentrism primarily refers to looking at the world with a European, colonial perspective, it is a complex term to break down with regard to its ‘tendencies’ (Shohat and Stam, 3). One key tendency however is to bifurcate the world into ‘the West’ and ‘the rest’ (Shohat and Stam, 4). For the purposes of the argument that ‘Cidade de Deus’ confirms Eurocentric tendencies and ‘Diarios de motocicleta’ subverts them, this essay will focus on the notion that the first focuses on the violence,…

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    This essay will focus on the notion that the first focuses on the violence, aggressiveness and underdevelopment of a Brazilian favela through a limited, privileged perspective and the latter emphasises the diversity of indigenous Latin Americans, avoiding limiting South America, ‘non-European’ and aiming to give indigenous people some form of voice. 'Cidade de Deus ' (Meirelles and Lund, 2002) is constructed in a similar way to a Hollywood 'Gangster Film ', using many of the genre 's tropes…

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    The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is the documentation of 29 different people going on a pilgrimage. It shows the changing medieval society-taking place in England and the people coming on this journey come from all different types of shire’s and social classes. They are travelling from London to Canterbury for a spiritual journey that will bring people closer to the divine spirit and help them evolve into better people. Harry Bailey who is hosting tells the guest’s that in order to…

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