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  Lysander's primary character trait is the same as Demetrius's primary character trait. As a matter of fact, the two of them are...

• Answered a Question in 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...

• Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Puck is talking to Lysander and Demetrius (although they cannot hear him) as he plans to get them each tired and lost in the forest so...

• Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Egeus is represented as the source of conflict that creates the action by the lovers that sparks the movement of the play. He...

• Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Okay, character traits:

  Theseus - Noble, formal of speech, passionate under his noble exterior, an intellectual, and basically...

• Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream

  1. Magic: Shakespeare uses "magic" in the play to represent the inexplicable events that seem to occur in the lives of human beings...

• Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream

  I disagree with the above answers in that, I do believe his transformation reveals something very important about the...

• Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream

  First of all, the assumption that any of his comedies, most certainly including MND, can be simplified into a "funnier" version is...

• Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream

  To the Elizabethans, daughters were considered the property of their fathers. This was not just an attitude. This was accepted, legal...

• Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Shakespeare employs irony when he has Bottom say, "Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream," and use comic...