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    Hermia And Lysander

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    The exposition of the story is that the character, Hermia, is forced to marry Demetrius, under the command of her father, Egeus. Hermia is not in love with Demetrius. She is in love with Lysander. Her good friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius. It is the law of the land that she must marry who her father says or she will killed. Hermia plans to take run away with Lysander, to his aunt's house, where the law does not exist there. They plan to meet up by the Fairies. The rising action of the…

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    Lysander Alternate Ending

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    Here I am with my love Lysander with Demetrius both fighting over who should marry me. I have always been mean to him, treating him like he was not there and he still loves me. He does not interpret that I love Lysander. I wish Helena and Demetrius would be together. Why am I the one being fought over? I see my dad going to the duke to say something but what. The duke comes up to me and says “You have to marry Demetrius.” He said “But sir my love is for Lysander and I should be able to choose…

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    Why do people’s attitude and tone change? Author’s make conflict and drama in books to change characters actions towards others. The attitude of a character can change as they go through a journey and travel from page to page. For example, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia is trapped in Athenian Law because of love and Theseus’ decision makes him change from a stern churlish man into a loving and accepting human being. Shakespeare uses conflict to change Theseus to adjust his attitude and…

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    The exposition of this story is the opening scene where Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, and the attendants walk in and Theseus starts talking to Hippolyta and Philostrate. They talk about the four day festival of Theseus 's and Hippolyta 's wedding. Theseus orders Philostrate to arrange last minute arrangements of the wedding festival. The rising action is after Philostrate leaves and Hermia, Demetrius, Egeus, and Lysander enter. Egeus has come with the complaint that his daughter has refused…

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    In his infamous play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses the forbidden relationship between Romeo and Juliet to explore the ideas of change and impermanence. From feuding families, the two adolescents are banned from fraternizing with each other. However, the conflicts between their two families does not stop them from becoming star-crossed lovers. Over the course of their relationship, both characters constantly change affinities and feelings, depicting how evanescent love can be and how…

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    illiam Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a play about two star-crossed lovers who suffer a grisly fate, of happy never after. It is a story of rivalry, in the ancient Greek society and the tragic romances therein created. The existent rules of this highly patriarchal society prohibit these two lovers from being together. They are nevertheless determined to do everything in their power to be together, and by this, they go against the society. It is…

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    “Love” in Fahrenheit 451, Romeo and Juliet and The Artwork Demonstration of humanity: love. Love is part of the life and we accept it unwittingly. There are types of love in life. Most of the time people assume love is a feeling between two different sex, but also there are many other types of love other than “romance love”. My artwork is about that. I included several types of love and respresentative pictures which belong different types of love. We love everything around us. For example we…

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    Which One Is Written Better? Shakespeare was brought to all in the 1564, yet so far back but so popular now. Some of the popular Shakespearean plays are the Twelfth Night another one Romeo and Juliet. While doing research on these two wonderful plays it showed there is quite a difference in the plot structure, theme, and symbolism of the plays.Looking at the evidence supporting that Romeo and Juliet is written with a better plot structure, theme, and better symbolism than Twelfth Night. The…

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    The present research paper deals with Sheridan famous comedy “The School for Scandal” as a comedy of manners or a typical Restoration comedy. The comedy of manners is a phrase often used in literary history and eroticism. It is particularly applied to the Restoration dramatists in England, and especially to Congreve and Wycherley; but it is a type of comedy which can flourish in any civilized urban society, and we see it again in Sheridan (1751-1816). This kind of comedy makes fun not so much of…

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    Every day, we hear the term ‘love’ in a plethora of situations. So, what is love? According to Shakespeare, in sonnet 116 - The first quatrain describes love as an unchangeable force in the lines “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove: / O no! it is an ever-fixed mark.” Shakespeare enforces the fact that true love always perseveres, no matter what it’s up against by using the metaphor, “That looks on tempests and is never shaken” in the…

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