Titania

Literature has always been enraptured with love and describing its effects on people. In the theater, playwright John Lyly uses his play Galathea to paint his own picture and definition of love that is complex and ever-changing; through his characters Galathea, Phillida, and the goddess Diana’s nymphs, Lyly shows that love comes in different forms. Sometimes love is pure and innocent, while other times it is undesirable and invasive, consuming one’s thoughts. Through these dynamic relationships,…

Have you ever desired to have something or someone so intensely that you would do anything to have it? For example, in the movie Shrek, Shrek had a desire for Princess Fiona so deeply that he did anything and everything to be with her. Well, when I think about love and what a person would do for love two stories come to mind, and they are "Pyramus and Thisbe" by Ovid and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. These characters in the story have many obstacles, barriers, and limitation that…

Love’s power seems obscure yet humans dwell on this intangible feeling from day to day life. At the heart of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, is the idea that loves forces people to perform extreme actions. This is shown from Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other. Friar Lawrence's love is also expressed to Romeo through his radical actions. Both the Capulets and Montagues are constantly at each other’s throats while Romeo and Juliet go on a mischievous journey. Romeo and Juliet’s love is…

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”(Shakespeare,91) A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set both in Athens and also in the forest. Hermia is the daughter of Egeus, a nobleman from Athens, who approves of her marrying Demetrius. Hermia is 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 difference between the the way Bilbo and the dwarves react to rivendell is that Bilbo was surprised when he saw the mountains but Balin,the dwarf was worried about getting up to the Misty Mountains.Bilbo loved elves but the dwarfs did not because they were very irritating .The dwarfs did not get along with them very well because the dwarfs thought they were very foolish.The reason I am saying this is because that the elves teased them and laughed at them and most of all their…

According to google, an optimist is “a person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future or the success of something.” Bottom, a mechanical in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, is not the wittiest in the play. However, his optimism, humor, and confidence assists him by making Pyramus And Thisbe an interesting play within the play. Because Bottom is confident, he lacks fear of anything. Bottom’s confidence grows when he offers to play more than one part in the…

Similarly, these tales share similar fragments of plot where the character Shrek, in both Steig’s “Shrek!” and Anderson’s Shrek, journey to get a princess, encounter a donkey, slay a dragon in pursuing a princess, and marry the princess. In both “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” and Shrek the rescuer saves the princess and marries her and each story includes a villainous character that tries to hurt the princess for his/her own gain, as Lord Farquaad desired to become king by marrying Fiona and the…

Nora Scene 12 Analysis Paper In Nora there is a handful of characters who share the stage in Ingmar Bergman’s adapted version of A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen. In this small ensemble of characters, two seemed to speak to me the most. Those characters were Nils Krogstad, the antagonist, and Christine Linde, the supporting female. While reading the script none of the characters felt real, I felt disconnected to the other lot of them, but, I could understand the struggles of Mrs. Linde and…

Emily Dickinson, enigmatic as always, is in fine form in this poem as she floats through beautifully veiled metaphors and tantalizing descriptions to depict her fascination and enthusiasm with the natural world. She uses the metaphor of insobriety to paint a vivid picture of the sometimes overwhelming aspects of nature. "I taste a liquor never brewed- From Tankards scooped in Pearl- Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an Alcohol!" These are four interconnected and…

In the Hobbit the elves, dwarfs, and the goblins all sing a song in the story. In the book they all sing in different tone, content, and structure it will also describe the characters that sing them. With this I can determine how each song is different. This is how I will determine the differences in the songs in this book. The first song is the one the dwarfs sung at at Bilbo's house at the beginning of the book. In the book the dwarfs sung the song in a playful tone, this tells you the dwarfs…