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  • Love Potion In Titania's Eyes
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    The Plots of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Katie Wolf There are four main plots in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. They " re all carefully woven together and there are many characters involved. The first plot involves four young lovers trying to work out their love for each other. The second plot is about a wedding between the Duke of Athens and the Queen of the Amazons. Interspersed with these two plots is another involving some local town peasants who are rehearsing a play f...
  • Helena And Demetrius
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    Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius represent young love in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. They are portrayed as foolish and fickle, acting like children and requiring a parental figure to guide them. The parental figures are Hermia's father, Ege us, and figuratively Theseus, the mortal ruler, and Oberon, the mystical ruler. Demetrius is a fool because he is unaware that his love changes through out the play. We learn from Demetrius that he has loved Helena before bestowing his affe...
  • Two Important Characters Hermia And Helena
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    Shakespearean Theatre is the name given to the first public theatres built in London during William Shakespeare's life. The stages' range from being square, circular and hexagonal tiered with breathtaking galleries. The stages seem to be the most important attire of a typical Shakespearean play as a lot of detail would be put into them. Take for instance, if a tragedy like Hamlet was being played then it was usually expected to have the stage draped in black to fit the mood. The stages would occ...
  • Fall In Love Helena
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    Jennifer Lopez Period 7 English Book Report The Mixed up Troubles of Love A Midsummer's Night Dream is one of Shakespeare's romantic / comedy plays. This play is about love and all the troubles that it brings to people. It also has a side story about a pompous actor who has a mysterious dream in the forest. The four main characters are all trying to find love with one another and when magic is involved it causes more cause between the four than it does to help. The play is set in Monte Athena, I...
  • Fairies Rule In The Realm Of Imagination
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    The Realm of Imagination In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare uses the green world and its inhabitants as a symbol of imagination. The characters flee from reality to escape the laws that govern everyday life in Athens. The importance of imagination reveals itself when the constraints of everyday life are lost in this realm. The fact that actors fall asleep multiple times reinforces Shakespeare's allusion to an escape from reality. Fairies playfully create a magical scene creating a suspens...
  • Demetrius Pairs With Helena
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    William Shakespeare intensifies the emotion of love and foolishness in the epic tale of four lovers and an enchanted forest in his classic Midsummer Night's Dream. Early in this work, we learn of two young maidens, Hermia and Helena, and their unfulfilled passions. Hermia, the daughter of a gentleman, is cast into the burden of marrying a suitor, Demetrius, chosen by her father for which she does not love. Instead, she has fallen for Lysander. To agitate further, Helena is madly in love with Dem...
  • Helena's New Acceptance Of Demetrius Love
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    Midsummer Night's Dream After Midsummer Night's Dream Essay, Research Paper After a night of wandering through the woods, chasing fairies, having various potions rubbed over their eyes, falling in and out of love, and threatening each other's lives and limbs, the four lovers of A Midsummer Night's Dream wake up in the forest to the trumpeting of horns and find themselves surrounded by nobility. It's no wonder they are confused, and "cannot truly say... ' (IV. 1.7) how they ended up where they ar...

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