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...to make Demetrius see the truth and choose her instead. After the love potion has taken effect, Helena is suspicious of the men, thinking that they are mocking her: “Never did mockers waste more idle breath” (Act 3, Scene 2, 169) but instead of wanting to hurt Hermia, she simply wants to run away from the whole situation. She is not so strong as Hermia, and she sadly concludes “’Tis partly my own fault/Which death or absence soon shall remedy” (Act3, Scene 2, 243-244). All four women are portrayed in a role of secondary importance when compared to their husbands and lovers, but Shakespeare shows how each of them use different tactics to resist the tyranny of men, and navigate the chaotic journey that is...
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...? A Midsummer Night’s Dream is still so popular today because it revels in the irrationality of human emotions. In a modern society, we are bombardedby facts that are provided for us by science. If you can’t prove it, then it doesn’t exist. This is a very useful way to think for the development of technology or creating a new medicine, but it is not how people really operate. When matters of the heart are concerned, people are incredibly irrational. This play has been described as silly and of little substance. That is a very shallow, constructivist approach in thinking about A Midsummer Night’s Dream. What this play really taps into is...
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...in which outward appearance is everything and nothing, in which individuation is at once sharply etched and continually blurred, in which the victims of fate are haunted by the ghosts of the possible, in which everything is simultaneously as it must be and as it need not have been” (60). Many of these often confusing issues became the subjects of the major literature produced during this era such as in William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Although the exact date of when Shakespeare wrote this play is unknown, with most estimates suggesting it was perhaps around 1595 or 1596, the confusion between tradition and...
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...of the female characters in the play indicates that women were regarded as possessions of the father and deprived of the right to choose their husbands. Works Cited Kemp, Theresa D. Women in the Age of Shakespeare. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, LLC. 2009. P 68. Montrose, Louis Adrian. “Shaping Fantasies: Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture.” Shakespeare: an anthology of criticism and theory, 1945-2000. Russ McDonald. (Ed). Wiley-Blackwell. 2004. P 486. Penney, Dusica Marinkovic. Analysis of Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream". GRIN Verlag. 2008. P...
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...Bloom, Harold, ed. William Shakespeare''s Othello. New York: Chelsea House, (1987); 77, underlines Emilia's and Desdemona's lack of competitiveness,jealousy, and class consciousness facilitates their growing intimacy. He sharply contrasts the genuine intimacy of the women with the hypocritical friendship of the men, while underlining the women's isolation and powerlessness.
Farley-Hills, D. Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-06. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, (1990); 101-112, expresses his ideas as to the "contrast between the sensitive Desdemona . . . and the coarser-grained but well-meaning Emilia, chattering about women's rights" (p. 108).
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...1 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is compositionally one of Shakespeare's most complex works, and the attitude of different literary critics towards itskey elements is far from univocal. Sir Roy Strong calls the lovers in the play "cardboard characters, silly and headstrong, no more than convenient vehicles whereby to send up the conventional love etiquette of the day". On the contrary, Frances de la Tour begins her review of the comedy with a confession that "to me A Midsummer Night's Dream is a nightmare journey into love and out of love. It's about passion and the pain of passion, rejected...
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...Betty Chen 23 September 2006 A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Significance of the Woods A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a delightful comedy written by the great dramatist, William Shakespeare. In this play Shakespeare uses materials gleaned from Ovid, Chaucer and English folklore to create his masterpiece. The play revolves around four groups of characters – Theseus, the duke of Athens and Hippolyta, the Queen of Amazons; Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius, the youngsters caught up in the tortuous throes of love; the fairy king and queen, Oberon and Titania, whose marital discord sets the stage for mischief and finally a company of Athenian craftsmen led by Nick Bottom who are determined to showcase their skills or lack... the reader to think...
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... 17 May A Midsummer Night’s Dream Analysis Paper One of William Shakespeare’s most influential and renowned plays worldwide is possibly ‘AMidsummer Night’s Dream’ written in the 1500s. The play revolves around the relationships formed between four Athenian lovers and actors who are manipulated eventually by the fairies in a forest. The ultimate theme of the play is based on love and affection and how this finally leads to a triumph no matter what the situation might be.
Through various examples and different characters throughout the course of the play, Shakespeare has tried to help the reader comprehend how love can conquer everything in the end. He has tried to teach people how to dream of the impossible through this very play... though...
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..., while still holding true to the original language and plot that Shakespeare used.
Also, a movie provides broader scenery and more intense drama than a play. The setting of the movie is beautiful and whimsical, and allows the Shakespeare characters to come to life. The film is able to seamlessly blend the Forest of the Fairies into the more modern Italian setting.
Works Cited
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Nights Dream. The Riverside Shakespeare. Ed. G.
Blakemore Evans and J.J.M. Tobin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 256–283.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Dir. Michael Hoffman. Perf. Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, and
Rupert Everett. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 1999. Film.... 22 November Intermingling Two Worlds in A...
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...Midsummer Night Dream Midsummer night dream is a play written by William Shakespeare in the period 1590 to 1596. It centers on marriage events and betrayal. This paper will show how the play is related to the Greek satyr as well as the pastoral play. Furthermore, it will also show their similarities and differences. Lastly, one will be able to understand the power of art and imagery in accordance to Shakespeare and its relation to Italian resonance.
Introduction
Midsummer night dream is a comedy play that starts at a point where everything is in a mess. There are four Athenian lovers and other nine actors, all of whom exploited by their feelings to end up in the forest, which acts as the setting of the play. The play has three... ...
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