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Part One: Why I Wanted Control Aranged marrige is something every woman in thw 16th cantruy has to go through. The marrige is decided by our fathers who believe that we are just there property. I, Hermia, was in love with Lysaner and I wanted to marry him. The only problem is that Egeus, my dad, chose Demetrius to marry me since he liked me well, Helena, my best friend, loved Demtrius. It is a very large and complicated situation. Our stituation was almost a love triangle: Lysander and I…

all get lost in the woods. The King and Queen of fairies, Oberon and Titania, are in an argument which leads to a love spell being cast on Lysander and Demetrius which causes conflict with Helena and Hermia. An acting group is planning to perform at Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding but one of their actors turns into a donkey, gets lost in the woods, and falls in love with Titania. In the end Lysander’s love spell is gone, Titania and Oberon solve their problems, the actors perform their play, and…

action begins when the young Athenians go to sleep in the woods, Puck squeezes the love potion into the eyes of Lysander and says everything should be back to normal in the morning.The denouement is when Puck goes to the castle to tie up loose ends and Oberon blesses the lovers.…

in this comedy, as he has Lysander foreshadow the bumpy course the four lovers will go through, “The course of true love never did run smooth,” (Shakespeare 1.1.136) Shakespeare also includes another pair of lovers, the fairy king Oberon and the fairy queen Titania. Oberon becomes jealous of Titania for having an Indian child who she…

The last third of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream begins with Titania doting over her new love, Bottom (still with the head of an ass.) Oberon sees the two, and begins to regret what he did to Titania, he squeezes the juice of the second flower into her eye to reverse the spell. Robin is also ordered to change Bottom’s head back to its usual form. Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus find the sleeping young Athenians. Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius wake up, and Lysander’s feelings for…

Christy Chandra Professor Landreth GSI Aileen Liu English 117A Essay #3 8 December 2015 What’s In A Name - “Fair” In A Midsummer Night’s Dream In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it can be noticed that there have been numbers of appearances of the word “fair” that is being uttered by several characters to their targets, such as Hippolyta and Hermia. At the beginning of the play, i encounter the first word “fair” that comes out from Theseus, the Duke of Athens to his fiancee, Hippolyta. Based…

Happy endings are one of the most import characteristic of a comedy play. Such endings might include the protagonist winning back their kingdom, finding a great treasure, or, most often, gaining the heart of their true love. No matter what the goal, in the end, the protagonist must find happiness for a play to really be classified as a “comedy”. But what if the happiness of a protagonist is only created through the use of magic unwillingly forced onto the character? In Shakespeare 's “A…

Midsummer Night’s Dream fairies, in some respects, act like human children. They live in the present, are quite incapable of reflection, they think and feel like the children. Fairy quarrels also look childish, even the rulers of the fairy tribe, Oberon and…

no regular character, shown by the fact he is the only single person in the play, taking him out of both the fairy and mortal world. Puck not only uses the characters to his liking, but also his audience. Puck is the mischievous sprite who serves Oberon, the Fairy King. Puck or Robin Goodfellow is a sprite or fairy who plays annoying tricks on people or helps them out with their chores (Bhattacharjee 1). This explains why Puck brags to us about all the times he's been a hassle to local…

The difficulty of love is one of the center themes of many of William Shakespeare’s comedy plays. Many ways he emphasizes the theme of the play is by creating doubles through the characters. Doubling in literature is essentially mirroring aspects like plot, setting and characters in the play to emphasize a theme. In A Midsummer Nights Dream by William, Shakespeare doubling is used to show the characters difficulties with love. The instant love seen with the young couples, fatherly love seen with…