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    Hippolyta, Hermia, Helena and Titania all in their own individual and unique ways either challenge the enforced social system of patriarchy or succumb to its demands and consequently, submit themselves as a subordinate role as a female. Unsurprisingly, Hermia and Helena—the two young heroines of the play—are fuelled by the mistreatment of their male superiors and fight to challenge the society they find themselves ensnared within. All the while Hippolyta and Titania at first attempt to challenge…

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    Strong relationships go through struggles. In William Shakespeare's Midnight Summers Dream every couple had issues that they had to overcome. No matter what obstacles occur, people always end up with who they should be with. Body 1- Hermia is willing to do anything, even disobey her father and put her life in danger to be with Lysander. In ancient times, females were expected to respect and listen to the men around them, but Hermia does the opposite when she is told she cannot marry who she…

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    In the film, Titania has a much less subdued response. Rather than loathing Bottom’s visage, as Shakespeare’s text states, she loathes Oberon’s visage. When they hold hands as the text states, in Davies’ film Titania offers her hand to Oberon, who places his hand in hers, suggesting that she is not now his subordinate anew but that they are partners (if perhaps Oberon…

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    something so much. In the case of Egeus and his daughter Hermia, as well as Oberon and Titania. Both Oberon and Egeus trying to take control of the ladies but aren't successful. Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius but she refuses because she…

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    Shakespeare approaches love from several different angles or different types of love. There is a paternal love like that of Egeus and his daughter Hermia or even between Titania and the changeling child she cares so much for. The reader also experiences marital love as between Theseus and Hippolyta as well as the love of Oberon and Titania. Of course the young romantic love that is themed throughout the play cannot be ignored when discussing the play’s themes of different kinds of love.…

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    cures Titania of her love to Bottom. Oberon says: “But first I will release the fairy queen. Be as thou wast wont to be; See as thou wast wont to see: Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower Hath such force and blessed power. Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen.” This is an example of reconciliation because Oberon is fixing the confusion caused by the love juice by reversing the spell. Oberon is allowing Titania to wake because he feels sorry for her and has gotten what he wanted. As Titania awakes…

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    Twin Falls High School performed William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is set in Athens, Georgia around the time 2029. They performed this play in the Roper auditorium and the director was James Haycock. I went to see this play on October 8th, and the performance dates were October 7th-10th. I believe that the purpose of this play was to entertain the audience. A mother that didn't approve of a love and a sister that was jealous introduced the beginning conflict.…

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    Oberon, her husband and king of the fairies, decides to put the magic love potion on her eyes so that she too could fall in love with the first person she saw when she awakened. The reason why Oberon decides to pull this trick on Titania is because she had adopted her cleaner’s son, that had passed away, and the cleaner asked her if she could take care of her son as if he were her own. Oberon wants that child so badly because he wants him to become a soldier and teach him about hunting…

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    William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a play about the difficulties of love and how magic comes with a price. Puck also known as Robin Goodfellow is Oberon the King of the fairies jester. In this play, Robin Goodfellow or Puck could be a protagonist and an antagonist of this play for the soul fact that he causes all the conflict and he develops everyone. He is a troublemaker in the play because he applies the “love juice” to the wrong Athenians. Therefore, in this paper I am going…

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    Texts and Contexts contains a passage from the book The Annals of England by John Stow which is an in depth analysis of english tradition in classical texts. The passage is entitled Bad Weather and dearth. It addresses the relationship between what Titania discusses in her explanation of the effect that the war between her self and Oberon has had on the natural world and real life occurrences of natural distress and famines that had happened in and around the lifetime of Shakespeare. The passage…

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