Theseus

Despite past choices, fate constantly governs the lover’s ultimate ending. In the Romeo and Juliet prologue, it reads: “a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” (PRO. 6). Even before the play begins, the audience is aware of the lover’s fate. Romeo and Juliet have not even met and their fate has already been determined. The path they choose to get there is irrelevant. Romeo and Juliet will still end up in the same place. Fate also played a role when the Friar’s letter was unable to reach…

character’s names are Lysander, Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, and Bottom. The first four know each other, but Bottom is separate from them, with completely different things happening. He’s supposed to be the star of a play that was to be in front of Theseus and Hippolyta, who are scheduled to get married. The other four characters come from a different background. Hermia wants to marry Lysander, but the law states that Hermia’s dad (Egeus) gets to decide who she marries. And Hermia’s father wants…

Midsummer Night’s Dream Rough Draft Shakespeare unfortunately died on his birthday. A Midsummer’s Night Dream, the play is about a controversial circle of relationships. Hermia is a girl in love with Lysander but he father is completely against her love. Hermia’s decisions to disrespect her father and run away affect the plot of the play by causing controversy in the woods. There is a girl named Hermia who is deeply in love with someone named Lysander, but her father doesn’t approve of…

Love in all its variations is a major theme in both William Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream and Woody Allen 's Crimes and Misdemeanors. On the surface, the two authors seem worlds apart. William Shakespeare was born in April of 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He was born into the Elizabethan era during the English Renaissance. It was a time of creativity and innovation in culture and the arts. Three hundred seventy one years later in the Bronx, New York on December 1, 1935 in the…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Jealousy In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, jealousy is presented in two different ways: through friendship and romance. A friendship that involves jealousy is Hermia and Helena’s. At the same time, jealousy, in regards to romance, is seen in Titania and Oberon’s relationship. Jealousy is a strong emotion that leads to desperation, insecurity, and conflict in their relationships through revengeful actions. The insecurity caused by…

not in love with Demetrius and wants to marry Lysander. The problem is that Egeus does not approve. This play demonstrates many different types of love, including forced love, romantic love and friendship love. Egeus, tells the Duke of Athens, Theseus, to carry out the full penalty allowed by the law to force Hermia to marry Demetrius. “To death, or to a vow of single life.”(Shakespeare,15) These are the penalties included in the law that would force her to choose between death or to enter…

What are the similarities between the Furies and Oedipus? Is Oedipus' hubris truly gone? If it has than why does he blame the Gods for his impurity? Shouldn't he fear them? It seems like in Oedipus at Colonus, women have more audacity than women in other Greek plays. Why are Antigone and Ismene significant in this play? What is their role? Is Oedipus really responsible for his actions or should the Gods be blamed for orchestrating such events? As I was reading Oedipus at Colonus, I realized that…

Egeus is the entity in the play that directly opposes Shakespeare's own opinions on love. He had been designed to be the enemy in the eyes of the audience. The obstacle to love. While Shakespeare demonstrates in the play love cannot be forced, Egeus stands by the old ways. He believes his daughter to be little more than his property stating “As she is mine, I may dispose of her; Which shall either be to this gentleman Or to her death”(1.1.42-44). As a man of upper class and a friend of the Duke…

Every novel or play there would be a character that has a significant way to be justice or injustice. Characters have their own way to express their qualities. Based off their way of being, turns out one of both which is justice or injustice. A way for a character to have justice would be base what he/she has been thru or what they’re going thru. For example, the play “Oedipus Rex” the character is finding out the truth about who were real parents. Several of the characters would want to…

3. What would you say is your greatest talent or skill? How have you developed and demonstrated that talent over time? I used to be a potato. No—not the garden variety. Rather, I was a couch potato, a “homo potatis” as they might be known in the taxonomical world. I spent most of my weekends either on my laptop, coding away, or perhaps on my bed, resting from the great fatigue of being a teenager. The outside world simply held no interest for me. All of this changed my…