...A Midsummer Night's Dream Genre Comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream is a classic example of Shakespearean comedy. What, you don't believe us? We'll prove it to you. We've got a checklist that details all the typical conventions and features of the genre so you can see for yourself: Light, humorous tone: Check. The play features fairy magic (like Oberon's love potion), silly pranks (like the transformation of a guy's head into that of a jackass), and the botched performance of a play-within-the-play by a bunch of wannabe actors. Need we say more? Clever dialogue and witty banter: Check. Shakespeare is a huge fan of punning and snappy wordplay, so naturally, his characters know how to get their witty repartee on. Shakespeare reserves some of the best dialogue for his warring lovers, especially Oberon and Titania, and even the "rude mechanicals" manage to wow us with their clever banter. Deception and disguise: Let's see…Hermia and Lysander try to sneak away from Athens to elope (behind Egeus's back). Also, Titania and the young lovers have no idea they've been drugged by Oberon and his magic love juice. So, check. Mistaken identity: Check. Sort of. In most of Shakespeare's other comedies, someone usually runs around in a disguise to mask his or her identity. (Sometimes, a lover is even tricked into sleeping with the wrong person by mistake.) This isn't necessarily the case in A Midsummer Night's Dream, unless we count the fact that the love juice causes Titania to fall head...
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...A Midsummer Night’s Dream Throughout your life you might occasionally find yourself having difficulty distinguishing between what is real and what is just your imagination. William Shakespeare, born in April 1564, was one of the greatest play writers of all time. In each of his plays Shakespeare focused on conveying a message or theme to the audience. One of his most beloved works is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Throughout this play William Shakespeare is trying to make the distinction between appearances versus reality. Using the concepts of love, a play-within-a-play, and dreams Shakespeare is able to make the distinction between the two. This essay will examine each concept and explain its importance in distinguishing between how things look versus what they actually are. Love is a major theme throughout the story. There are many different types of love between the different characters. First, there is noble love between Theseus and Hippolyta. Next is true love, which is shared between Lysander and Hermia. Also, Oberon and Titania share a magical love because both are fairies. Shakespeare confuses reality by including fairies in this story. The fairies can interact with the humans and can even fall in love with them. Another tactic used by Shakespeare is that the fairies have a magic liquid that when poured onto a persons eyelids will cause that person to fall in love with the first thing that person sees once they open their eyes. This potion is poured into many characters...
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...Love means many things, to each person it means something different. Sometimes, the word love doesn't even mean love, it merely becomes an image of something we want it to be. In the book a Midsummer Night's Dream love can be defined in three different ways; friendship love, relationship love, and mistaken love. The friendship love comes between the couples Hermia & Lysander, Helena and Demetrius, and Thisbe and Pyramus. In act five Thisbe and Pyramus were shocked but yet accepted what had happened between the couples and set the wedding and events for them. This shows friendship love between the couples because they accepted their differences like true friends do. The next type of love is relationship love. We see it mostly between Hermia...
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...In “A Midsummer Night’s dream” William Shakespeare shows a variety of different types of love. A few examples of love are: true, parental, friendship, and romantic. Also, Shakespeare shows how easily one’s feelings can change for one another. Even though “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was written in Ancient Greek times, people can easily relate to the different types of love shown throughout the drama. Love can be a beautiful thing or either it can be chaotic and at times nerve racking, but in the end everything works together for the best. Parental love and true love are commonly used in the drama. Hermia saw that parental love can be rather nerve racking because she wants to marry Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius instead....
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...Shakespeare’s use of comedy in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Shakespeare creates comedy in his play “A Midsummer Night’s dream” through the different scenarios in the play that take place which all have at least an element of humour. He creates comedy in a number of ways and it makes the play humorous as a whole. However he uses dark comedy in several scenes of the play. Through the lovers; Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius, we see humour in the way they have love triangles. The fact that Hermia and Lysander are in love, but Demetrius chases after Hermia and Helena chases after Demetrius is humorous itself. Shakespeare’s use of comedy in the love triangles is a form of comical relief to a certain extent. This is because as tension builds up between the lovers, in act 3 scene 2 both Lysander and Demetrius fall in love with Helena because of the “Love in idleness”, which ends up in a big argument with Hermia. The fact that each character does not know why the males suddenly love Helena makes the scene, which is supposed to be serious, humorous. Shakespeare uses dark humour, however, because it is meant to be a sad and confusing experience for Hermia and Helena, though it is fiendishly comical. Furthermore, Shakespeare’s use of comedy between the lovers is not over done, like the mechanicals. The fact that both Lysander and Demetrius loved Hermia before the fairies interfered with the love triangles, shows more of the dark humour. Lysander used to think of Hermia as his “gentle...
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...Title: Author(s): Publication Details: Source: Document Type: The Carnivalesque in A Midsummer Night's Dream David Wiles Shakespeare and Carnival after Bakhtin. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1998. Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Michelle Lee. Vol. 82. Detroit: Gale, 2004. From Literature Resource Center. Critical essay Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale, COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale, Cengage Learning [(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Wiles examines the festive and carnivalesque elements in A Midsummer Night's Dream. According to the critic, the play was historically part of an "aristocratic carnival" used to celebrate weddings in upper-class society.] Carnival theory did not begin with Bakhtin, and we shall understand Bakhtin's position more clearly if we set it against classical theories of carnival.1 From the Greek world the most important theoretical statement is to be found in Plato: The gods took pity on the human race, born to suffer as it was, and gave it relief in the form of religious festivals to serve as periods of rest from its labours. They gave us as fellow revellers the Muses, with Apollo their leader, and Dionysus, so that men might restore their way of life by sharing feasts with gods.2 This is first a utopian theory, maintaining that carnival restores human beings to an earlier state of being when humans were closer to the divine. And second, it associates carnival with communal order. Plato argues that festive dancing creates bodily order, and thus bodily and...
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...What Type(s) of Love is Portrayed in A Midsummer’s Night Dream Written by William Shakespeare In the play A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare, there are many different types of love that are portrayed. While I feel that this play is more along the lines of a comedy and tragedy rather than love, Shakespeare did his best to portray this as a love story. “The course of true love never did run smooth” (Shakespeare, 2010, 1.1.134). This leaves you wondering is true love found in this play or do we find ourselves seeing other types of love as well. One of the first types of love portrayed in A Midsummer’s Night Dream is parental love. Parental love is often defined as, the love of parents towards their children (Allwords, 2018). Anyone who is a parent understands that this love runs deeper than any other type of love, at least that is the way that I feel. As a mother to six, and a wife, I have found myself with a deeper love for my children than I do for my husband at times. This is portrayed with Egeus and Hermia. Egeus is the father to Hermia, he has shown his self to be very commanding and...
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...Romantic comedy is a popular genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms and focuses on the foibles of those who are falling in love Title page of the first quarto of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) "Comedy", in its Elizabethan usage, had a very different meaning from modern comedy. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays.[13] Comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōidía), in the contemporary meaning of the term, is any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film and stand-up comedy. This sense of the term must be carefully distinguished from its academic one, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters.[1] The theatrical genre can be simply described as a dramatic performance which pits two societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye famously depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old",[2] but this dichotomy is seldom described as an entirely satisfactory explanation. A later view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth...
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...Why do people feel the need to control others? In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare one of the main characters, Hermia is being treated unfairly by her father --Egeus-- and the “Athenian Law”. The Athenian law and Hermia’s father are both treating Hermia unfairly by taking away her right to marry who she loves, threatening to give her an ultimatum if she does not obey, and they are preventing her from maturing on her own. Any parent would want to let their child make their own mistakes, but still wants them to be happy and protected. The Athenian law and Egeus went at this problem the wrong way. Controlling who the daughters of their community marry is a bad idea and could never work. Hermia and her true love show this...
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...Power Over Effective Progress Numerous problems in the world today result from selfishness. Self-centered people who cannot see past their big egos and their thirst for power cause conflict. In the Elizabethan, romantic comedy, Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare reveals the theme that many problems in the world result from the actions of self-centered people because selfishness does not yield effective progress. Selfish people want things their way or no way. They always think they know best, when in actuality, they think about themselves and no one else. They represent the type of person unwilling to compromise and hear other people's opinions and oppositions, and go about in a closed minded way. Despite the different types of...
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...First two were mentioned before - Cordelia's sisters, Regan and Goneril, who could say whatever their father required, could lie how much they love him, just to recieve promised money. In a different Shakespearean work "Hamlet" we can find, in my opinion, the weakest female figure - Ophelia, who is torn between her Hamlet and her family - father and brother. Moreover Ophelia is a sweet and innocent young girl, the epitome of goodness and, unfortunately, she is also childlike and naive. Despite the fact that her love for Hamlet is really strong, she obeyed the fathers rules - not to see Hamlet again. Furthermore, to family she was only a woman whose purpose was to be dutiful wife and mother, to Hamle she was like a sexual object. Namely, she had no rights to be herself, to be independent. She was not brave enough to stand up against the men, maybe because she had no one who could show her better life. In conclusion, I must say that in Shakespeare’s tragedies and his plays, we can see several types of female characters. Mainly there are strong, independent, brave women who do not want to be under men's control, but there are also a few weaker characters - but they often play passive roles in the play. Nevertheless, in the middle of male-dominant society Shakespeare created women with such power and strengths...
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...musicians wanted their music to be poetic and tell a story. In order for composers to write pieces that told a story, they began to write several types of program music for piano and orchestra. Program music can be divided into categories: symphonic poems (tone poems), program symphonies, concert overtures, and incidental music. Firstly, a type of program compositions written in the 19th century was the symphonic poem which can be sometimes referred to as a tone poem. Symphonic poems can be defined as a single movement for orchestra that has no definite form, and is inspired by a subject apart from music, typically a story or poetry; an example of a tone poem would be Danse macabre by Camille Saint- Saëns. Danse macabre was based off the text of the French poet Henri Cazalis poem by the same name. Moreover, symphonic poems can be written in many different forms such...
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...Throughout history, the ‘ideal’ image of people has changed significantly. People have been expected to look differently over time, with different styles and fads and they have always enjoyed going to the beach and pool, spending time outside and relaxing – including societies’ addiction with tanning. Everyone loves coming back from the beach with a nice, dark tan, however, they don't know the dangers entailed Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. It is the abnormal growth of cells in the skin. There are two different types of skin cancers: Melanomas and non-melanomas. Most skin cancers are the non-melanoma type. There are two main types of non-melanoma skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Most non-melanoma skin cancers are basal cell carcinoma. It can damage deeper tissues, such as muscles and bones. It almost never spreads to other parts of the body. Squamous cell carcinoma however, is less common. It often develops from a small rough spot that grows into sun damaged skin and can sometimes spread to other parts of the body. Non-melanoma skin cancer is usually caused by too much sun. Using tanning beds or sunlamps too much can also cause it. There are other types of skin cancer that are non-melanoma but these are much less common - they include Merkel cell carcinoma and several kinds of sarcomas. Melanomas often resemble moles; some develop from moles. The majority of melanomas are black or brown, but they can also be skin-colored...
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...The Social Changes in Marriage Western Governors University Social Changes in the Module of Marriage Bob Dylan said it the best, “The times they are a changing”. The purpose of marriage in today’s society is no longer what it was over a century ago. Families in the early 1900s were depicted in movies such as “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” where arranged marriages were the social norm. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet or Leave It to Beaver were the “families” of the mid-1960s.They were comprised of two parents, two children and a happy stable environment. The Husband’s role was that of the provider, with the Wife’s role being that of a homemaker and nurturing mother. The children were a reflection of their parent’s social reverence to society norms. In the late 1960s – 1970s cultural norms regarding marriage, pre-marital sex/cohabitation and childrearing changed significantly. The family was replaced by divorced parents or blended families, reflected in shows such as “Different Strokes,” “One Day at a Time,” and “Parent Trap” reflected such. Currently, non-traditional families are accompanied by same sex marriage and depicted in sitcoms such as Modern Family, which combines multiple variations of family models in one show. These various family modules are becoming widely accepted in society, along with changes in the social module of marriage, as “traditional family values are being swept away by a wave of tolerance toward lone mothers, gay couples and unmarried...
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...------------------------------------------------- Araliaceae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Araliaceae Temporal range: Eocene–0PreЄЄOSDCPTJKPgN | | Aralia elata | Scientific classification | Kingdom: | Plantae | (unranked): | Angiosperms | (unranked): | Eudicots | (unranked): | Asterids | Order: | Apiales | Family: | Araliaceae Juss.[1] | Subfamilies and genera | * See text | Synonyms | * Botryodendraceae J.Agardh * Hydrocotylaceae (Drude) Hyl., nom. cons. | Araliaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Aralia family (after its type genus Aralia) or ivy family. The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and perennial herbaceous plants in two subfamilies. Species usually bear pinnately or palmatelycompound leaves, and usually have small flowers produced in large panicles. Contents [hide] * 1 Overview * 2 Subfamilies and genera * 3 See also * 4 References and external links ------------------------------------------------- Overview[edit] The family from tropical area origin is present in cooler climates, too. They are found in the Americas, Eurasia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Pacific islands. Araliaceae bear essential oils, or without essential oils can be resinous and heterophyllous. It presents many shapes, includes some trees and ivies as the angelica tree (devil's walking-stick, Aralia spinosa), the devil's club (Oplopanax horridus), Hedera spp., including Hedera...
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