Puck

Love is hopeless. Love is fruitless. Love is good. Love is stupid. Love is kind. Love is biblical. Love is spiritual. Love confuses me. Love is scary. Love can be described as nothing besides love. Love is always in the air, that’s why there are so many b***** children such as the demon, elf child Pearl in the Scarlet Letter. Teenage love is especially terrifying, due to its unpredictability. Do Romeo and Juliet ring a bell? That nymphomaniac Juliet had Romeo committing suicide for her, or was…

“The course of true love never did run smooth,” and neither is it near perfect. Love is stupidity with a smile, blind trickery, and spontaneous thoughts (1.1.134). Throughout William Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” he portrays the theme of love through his characters as erratic, blind, and foolish. Shakespeare was not the slightest bit modest when illustrating how inconsistent love is. By speaking through his characters, Hermia and Lysander, Shakespeare demonstrates how…

Making an Ass out of Laws Shakespeare is widely known as an English poet, playwright, and actor, and is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. On the other hand, students of today’s culture tend to think, why are Shakespearean writings, written some 400 years ago, still relevant in today’s English classes? Even though Shakespearean plays use archaic vocabulary that usually require the use of a thesaurus or an English teacher to understand, the fundamental ideas of A…

Constantin Stanislavski was born in Russia in 1863 and disproved of the acting style at the time, he felt performances did not reflect reality as acting techniques were mechanical and lacked real feelings. To counter this overused system Stanislavski formed his own acting school and devised a system to help actors bring reality into their performances, today this is known as 'Method Acting' or more simply, 'The Method'. In the Shakespeare duologue my partner and I have produced I used some of…

Shakespearean Character Comedy Think of one character in a movie, but not just any character. Think of a character that is hilarious, such as Homer Simpson, or Sheldon Cooper. These characters channel a comedic experience through their language and actions. Like these characters, Shakespeare connects Character comedy in A Midsummer Night's Dream by making one character more exaggerated to provide comedic relief. This adds comedy to Shakespearean writing. Character comedy is in A Midsummer…

Love is a piece of life that can be perpetually evolving. In the play, A Midsummers Night Dream by Shakespeare shows that adoration is not generally steady, and can change in extremely unusual examples. This subject is most apparent among the different couples inside the play. Toward the start of the play, Lysander and Demetrius made an "adoration triangle" with Hermia at the peak and Helena being practically non-existent. Both men worshipped Hermia, asking for her acknowledgement, and…

It was an action, full of adventure, romantic, but above all that, it was a fantasy. J.K Rowling knew exactly what she was doing when she wrote this story line. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extrodinary array of magical creatures documented by a man by the name of Newt Scamander. During this movie Newt travels away from his home in England to the Big Apple known as New York. While in New York he might have made it there and back without conflict if it weren’t for Jacob Kowalski,…

Yet, the “evil” was still vanquished. Perhaps that counts for something? Not quite. Taking a look at the tale how it was originally written may prove to be enlightening. Rumpelstiltskin is described differently in translations of the German tale. In the original German text, Rumpelstilzchen, the Brothers Grimm describe Rumpelstiltskin as a männlein (Grimm, Rumpelstilzchen). In English translations he is often called a manikin or a hobgoblin. The männlein is a fairy that is helpful and wise, but…

Personal Statement 4. Explain unicorns. “What do you know about unicorns?” the man across from me asked, pushing up his glasses. I blinked, caught off-guard by the question from this new chairman. What was he talking about? “Unicorns?” I stuttered. He only nodded. “W-well, I don’t know?” I hesitantly replied. Did he really just pull me out of class to ask about unicorns? Is he crazy? He watched me, his sharp eyes narrowing before shaking his head sadly. “You must think I’m crazy…” Bingo. You…

The protagonist is Puck is the central character, labeling him as the lone protagonist in the play . Puck. he's the only character that has his hands in almost every plot line. Puck's actions are directly involved in the rising action, conflict, falling action and resolution of the play. Here Puck manages to be involved in the action of the four lovers, Bottom and the actors, and the argument for the Indian boy. I'd say Puck fills the antagonist role most emphatically. He complicates…