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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pastoral literature idealizes life in nature, specifically the life of a shepherd out tending his sheep in the pastor. Pastoral literature typically speaks of love, death, and various social...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
This "shrewd and knavish sprite" does indeed drive many of the incidents and outcomes of the plot of A Midsummer's Night Dream. In fact, he may even be considered the most important character in...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In storytelling, there are three kinds of irony: dramatic, verbal, and situational. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows more about a situation than the characters in the story do. Verbal...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In the broadest sense, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy. It contains elements of a classic Shakespearean comedy, including lovers who must overcome problems to be...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Allow me to start off by saying that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the best ensemble shows in Shakespeare’s canon. Questions about the most “important” character are a bit strange, since the...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The King and Queen of the Fairies, Oberon and Titania, get into an almighty quarrel over a changeling boy from India that Titania has in her possession. Oberon wants the boy for himself, but...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In act 1, scene 2 of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, six skilled laborers in the city of Athens—the "rude mechanicals," as Puck calls them (3.2.10)—first appear in the play. The "rude...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Fairies in Elizabethan times were thought of to be bad spirits who played tricks on people and were responsibile for disease, illness and misfortune. We see this attitude mirrored in the character...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The first important consideration is the format of this assignment. A police report would focus on the evidence, summarizing the factual elements of this "case": descriptions, times of day, claims,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The literary devices used by Shakespeare throughout A Midsummer Night's Dream includes notable examples of witty, clever wordplay in the form of puns, malapropisms, and oxymorons. The "rude...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A malapropism is the incorrect use of a word, often in an idiomatic expression, whereby the incorrect word sounds very similar to the intended, correct word. For example, in Shakespeare's Much Ado...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The three phrases here all involve malapropisms, or similar mistakes about the meanings of words, leading to pronouncements which are nonsensical or unintentionally near the mark. A pure...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bottom's transformation helps to further portray Shakespeare's central theme that human beings are fools.The reason behind Puck's choice to transform Bottom's head into a donkey's head is to point...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses all three types of irony. Verbal irony occurs when words mean the opposite of what is intended. In the quote below, Bottom speaks with unintentional verbal...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The role of the mechanicals is to support two of Shakespeare's central themes in A Midsummer Night's Dream. The two themes are the foolishness of mankind and reality vs. illusion.We especially see...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Literary devices provide a freshness to literature that embellishes meaning and expression and enjoyment. 1. In the opening of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus, the Duke of Athens,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In act 5, scene 1, Theseus makes a pompous speech in which he expresses skepticism at old legends and fairy tales, or "antique fables" and "fairy toys" as he calls them. He then goes on to lump...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Because of the multiple plot line nature of the play, it is difficult to pick out a "most" important scene. Every scene in each act is dedicated to a different plot line which all gets tied...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In Shakespeare's As You Like It, Duke Frederick exiles his niece Rosalind from his court. Rosalind's cousin Celia decides that they should go to the forest where Rosalind's father, Duke Senior, has...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck is a fairy character. He is introduced to the play in the first scene of act 2 and is described as a "shrewd and knavish sprite." From this initial description,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The world of Athens and the world of the fairies mirror each other as monarchies. Both Theseus and Oberon are wise, if patriarchal, rulers. Each has a strong consort (or soon-to-be consort)....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The answer to your question on how the characters of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, come to be engaged in William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream may...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
According to Stephen Follows, A Midsummer Night's Dream has been adapted for film twenty times. In addition, it has been adapted into ballets, operas, and musicals. The play was adapted into a...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius due to a misunderstanding with the orders he receives from Oberon. In act 1, scene 2, Puck is sent to retrieve “Love in Idleness,” the purple flower which can...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 3, scene 2, Hermia runs away from Demetrius in fury, accusing him of having killed Lysander. Demetrius says that there is no point in his “following her in this...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander and Hermia had been told by Theseus that they are forbidden to marry each other because Egeus, Hermia's father, has decided she must marry Demetrius. Hermia is in love with Lysander, but...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare turns the subject of love into a comedy instead of a romance. He shows that human love can be fickle and can be altered with nothing more than a few drops...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The answer to this question depends on which part of the play you are referencing. At the beginning of the text, Helena reveals that she is in love with a man named Demetrius who is romantically...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare uses two distinctly different locations in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. One (the setting at the beginning and end of the play) is the court and city of Athens in ancient Greece,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
One difference is that the city is a place of order, while the forest is a place of disorder. In Athens, Hermia must marry the man her father chooses, die, or become a nun. She flees these laws by...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Demetrius has so vehemently told her he dislikes her and wants her to go away that Helena is quite surprised when he has a sudden change of heart. Since she doesn't know Puck has dropped a love...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Snug is a joiner by trade, a kind of artisan who builds wooden components of a building—think stairs, doors, window frames, and so on—or even furniture and fittings by joining together pieces of...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
This question is asking you about the events of act 3, scene 2 in this play. Here, we find Oberon in the wood. He is waiting to find out whether his plan has worked—he has sent Puck, his servant,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Quite a few elements keep the many couples in this play apart, though each couple's trials are unique. Hermia and Lysander's union is opposed by social obligations. Hermia is expected to obey her...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In William Shakespeare's play, a large number of couples form, split up, realign, resist connections, and deceive each other. The fairy monarchs, King Oberon and Queen Titania, in some ways...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Since, when you ask about the conflicts in Midsummer Night's Dream, you stipulate "so far," and, as I have no idea where you are in the play and therefore no idea what, "so far," means to you, I...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck puts the juice of the flower into Lysander's eyes on accident. Puck is a servant of Oberon, the king of the fairies. Oberon is in a fight with his wife Titania over who gets to keep a certain...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pictorial elements help us visualize in our mind's eye what is going on in a play. They rely on imagery, what is description which uses the fives senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In this play, a group of less-than-talented tradesmen puts on a dramatic version of the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, two lovers whose parents forbade them to marry. Just as Hermia's father,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The role of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream is to create both the conflict and the resolution in the play. They do this by manipulating the human beings in the play while also remaining...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The text does not tell us why Egeus prefers Demetrius over Lysander. The text does tell us what Egeus did and what Lysander did. The text also implies an order to these actions. The best we can do...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
On the surface level, we might assume that Hermia and Lysander share their plans with Helena because she is their dear friend and because as young lovers, they lack the wisdom to know their plan...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The primary plot in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare is the love triangle, or quadrilateral, between Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius. Shakespeare uses two frame...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
At the beginning of the play, two of the young lovers, Hermia and Lysander, intend to flee together to the home of Lysander's aunt to put themselves out of the reach of Athenian law so they can get...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
No, Bottom is blissfully unaware of his strange transformation. He cheerfully goes about this business without the slightest realization that the mischievous Puck has given him the head of a...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream has a large cast of characters. There are twenty-two characters with lines and the option to include many others in the play. There are seven characters that could be...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
That's a very good question. A single fairy has been chosen to stand watch over Titania while she sleeps. But he doesn't do a very good job of it because the mischievous Oberon is able to creep up...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Quite a bit has been written about this title, and I suppose there are several subtle and surprising things that can be gleaned from it. There are a few clues, linguistically, that the title gives...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The play of Pyramus and Thisbe that occurs in Act V scene 1 acts as a serious reminder in an otherwise humourously comic play of the situation of the lovers at the beginning of the play. We are...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus is a patriarchal ruler who tends to expect women to fall in line when it comes to love and marriage. For instance, Hippolyta, his fiance, was queen of the Amazons until he forcibly took her...
