Midsummer

When comparing The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster and William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the women have a strong connection. In the sense of power, the Duchess resembles traits that of Hermia, and Cariola compares to Helena. Although, the plots and outcomes differ from one another, the characters remain connected. Hermia and the Duchess are women who hold a lot of power, but do not have the power of choosing their husbands. Instead, they have their partners in life chosen for…

Enduring Difficulty to Achieve In scene 7, the little monk tells Galileo about his concern for his family not being able to handle the truth of astronomy or ready to being doubting things, and Galileo starts to talk about the theme of enduring difficulty and change. The play argues that people must be willing to go through difficulty by mocking the little monk’s family and anyone who is similar, using the oyster metaphor as a representation of sacrifice, and by using rhetorical questions to…

are only different version of reality we choose to believe in. Like in our daily lives, Shakespeare uses the play Midsummer Night’s Dream as a direct representation of different reality’s as one of the main themes in the play. Then is reproduced two different film adaptations through the setting, lighting and charaization of the different characters in the play. In the play, Midsummer Nights Dream by Shakespeare, Shakespeare uses wording, metaphors, similes to develop the theme of appearance…

to blame for why what just happened happened. There is always blame to be placed. Everyone is going to find someone different to blame, and have a reason for why they are correct. When it comes to the confusion in the woods in Shakespeare’s, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Oberon, not Puck, is responsible. He was driven by jealousy and a personality that forced him to meddle in other people's business. Some may argue that Puck caused the confusion because he was the one who carried out Oberon’s…

Hermia: I am shocked by your heated words. I don't mock you, but you mock me. Helena: Did you make Lysander mock me, to follow me and compliment my eyes and face? And made your other love Demetrius, who didnt even reject me with his foot, to call me goddess, beautiful, angelic, rare, precious, and heavenly? Why does he talk like that to a girl he can't stand and why does Lysander deny that he loves you, when he loves you so deeply? Why would he show me any affection, unless you told him to? Why…

On the surface King Richard II seems a straightforward depiction of an unfit King’s steady stream towards being deposed. Shakespeare’s lack of favoritism gives a documentary point of view, yet commotional drama of a daytime soap opera. Shakespeare’s elegant style leaves some doubt for the reader to be ‘all in’ with Bolingbroke taking over despite his heroic attributes and the follies of Richard. The play opens with King Richard’s continuing follies: covers up his Gloucester’s assassination,…

Females Feeling More Pain As I was reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the stories “Narcissus and Echo” and “Pyramus and Thisbe” stood out to me the most. The stories brought me to a time of my life that was very dark. I went to my best friend’s house one day, and told me that she was in love with an ex-boyfriend of mine, who happen to be her neighbor. She was going to ask him out as soon as he comes out of his house. She looked so happy, but I knew this guy and I did not want to see her hurt. Before…

Similarly, these tales share similar fragments of plot where the character Shrek, in both Steig’s “Shrek!” and Anderson’s Shrek, journey to get a princess, encounter a donkey, slay a dragon in pursuing a princess, and marry the princess. In both “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” and Shrek the rescuer saves the princess and marries her and each story includes a villainous character that tries to hurt the princess for his/her own gain, as Lord Farquaad desired to become king by marrying Fiona and the…

“The act of love is largely the art of persistence,” said Albert Ellis. This concept could be brought into Shakespeare’s comedy, Twelfth Night, where the character Orsino was madly in love with the character Olivia; however, after learning that Olivia had already married Sebastian, Orsino transfers his love to Sebastian's sister, Viola, and marries her. Very similarly, although Olivia was in love with Cesario (Viola) she also then transfers her love to Sebastian after she had realized that she…

The comic subplots in Shakepeare’s Twelfth Night and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus function in the overall structures of the plays in many ways. Specifically, I argue that they parallel the main plot, emphasizing the theme of self-love that dominates the main plot. Within Twelfth Night, the emphasis that is placed on the theme of self-love is prominent from the moment the play begins. For example, it opens with the following speech by Orsino to himself: “If music be the food of love, play on/Give me…