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This paper examines how the dream-like settings in Michael Ondaatje's novels, ("In the Skin of a Lion" and "The English Patient"), represent the structure, organization and style of the novel. It looks at the message Ondaatje is trying to get across by using this style of writing. The paper also discusses the novels in the context of post-modern literature.

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"This selection has no order in its construction. It continuously repeats the verb "leapt," which has no hidden meaning. With the images of color, and then pulling and stomping, it is difficult to discern what Ondaatje wants the reader to think about dyer's work. This is also seen in The English Patient, when it says "The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations." Here, Hana has no order in her life until she is asleep. This image in itself is disorderly, because dreams themselves are so unorganized. It does not seem possible for her to find order through them. Yet that is precisely what dreams do; they present chaos and random images in a way that almost makes sense; and that is what Ondaatje does. He puts images together for the reader to somehow make sense of it for themselves."

Tags:Patrick, Lewis, Cravaggio, Kip

Abstract
William Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", creates a dream world fused with reality. Shakespeare successfully makes the world of Puck and other sprites realistic by employing powerful, vivid text in the play. The paper explains that, through his creative use of language, Shakespeare creates a world of illusion where things are not what they seem, and imagination pushes the limits of fact. The result of powerful language aided by our own imagination allows this enchanted world to appear real in the moonlit forest. It examines how the text of the play is constructed in such a way that we not only visualize the setting of the play, but we also come to know each character.

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"The interplay between Puck, Lysander, and Demetrius demonstrates the contrast between mortals and fairies. Puck successfully misguides the two men until they become confused and lose their sense of direction. Puck has an added measure of fun when he tells Demetrius to follow his voice. While Lysander tries to follow that voice, he describes Pucks' nature almost perfectly. He states that the villain is "much lighter-heeled" Shakespeare (III.ii.416) than he is and though he followed the voice fast, "faster he did fly" (III.ii.417). Similarly, Demetrius encounters the same type of confusion with Puck."

Tags:puck, language, imagination

Abstract
This paper analyzes one of William Shakespeare's most celebrated comedic plays, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The author examines how the throughout the play the characters attempt to find a way to understand the mechanism of love in a rational way and experience self-alterations that they believe to be a dream in the end. The paper also looks at how the recurring reference to the ever-changing moon parallels the transformation of the characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

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"A Midsummer Night's Dream" brilliantly expresses the profound human uncertainty about love. Dream world and reality merge undetectably so that the characters are not sure themselves in which sphere they move, nor whether what they have experienced has been imagination or truth. What seems to be a fantasy or a dream for the characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is actually reality. However, the dreamlike atmosphere of the play accentuates the fact that the lovers appear to be quite removed from any criteria applicable to reality."

Tags:Shakespeare, theseus, hippolyta, bottom, titania, moon, puck, helena, oberon

Abstract
The "dream argument" may have been a truly-lived expression of doubtfulness during Descartes's era. This paper notes why Descartes and his contemporaries may have been truly puzzled, given the state of scientific understanding at that time. Today, one cannot even get to the point in which proving or refuting Descartes's dream argument would make any sense. One cannot simply lift the dream argument out of those circumstances and transplant it to our times. The paper shows that what may be appropriate is to look at computer technology today and ask whether computers can think, dream, and be deceived by their dreams.

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"One can first begin with the question of whether computers can really play chess. Over thirty years ago it would have been very apparent that chess game software (and the corresponding hardware) had a challenging time competing with someone who was a decent chess player. When the question was asked over thirty years ago, it was possible to answer the question in the negative by way of showing the essential differences between how a human makes a move in chess versus how a computer performs the same operation."

Tags:dreyfus, outside, world, technology

Abstract
This paper discusses how "The European Dream" is considered to be a reference work in the context of the 21st century and its tendencies. It examines how the book practically presents a new vision of the future of the world, a world in which the main superpower will be considered to be the European Union, despite the recent failure to adopt a Constitution and despite the differences, visible at one moment or another, among the member states.

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"Another feature of the American civil society, which has also been adopted by the Europeans, is the cultural diversity. If in the past foreigners were considered to be an impediment to the progress and were treated as such by the European natives, nowadays things seem to have changed and the racist views have been replaced by multicultural ones. Under these circumstances, the attention has been moved in Europe from the possession and distribution of the capital and the maintenance of the private property to the preservation of cultural values and identity."

Tags:superpower, american, dream

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The paper describes how Joe Torre's "Chasing the Dream" is the life story of Torre and his lifelong quest to win a World Series ring. The writer points out that the book shows why baseball is so beloved in the country and how the game can take over your life. The writer discusses how his own life experiences helped him understand this book, and asserts that although he is not a Yankee fan, he now admires Torre for all his qualities.

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"My own life experiences helped me understand the work, because I'm a lover of baseball too, and so I could understand why Torre fell in love with the game and wanted to win a World Series so much. There is something magical about baseball in a big stadium decorated for the ultimate championship, and Torre manages to capture that magic, which makes his book come alive. For example, he writes, "This was one of them: a home run off Whitey Ford, with Mickey Mantle, his powerful legs giving up the chase, looking up at a baseball that I had hit as it flew away against the blue Florida sky" (Torre 86). His writing is powerful and shows his love for the game.
"The descriptions all are vivid. They show how much the game means to him and that is easy to understand, since I like the game too. He shows how it affected his whole life, and how his life is empty without it. It is an important baseball book, because it shows how the game can take over your life.
"In conclusion, I understand his love for the game, but I understand how it can consume you, too. That seems to be the case with Torre, and it may be why he was unsuccessful at other things, like marriage, (at first), because he was so obsessed with the game, there was not time or desire to do anything else."

Tags:World, Series, baseball, Yankee

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The paper discusses why Act two Scene one of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a very important scene. In it all the major and minor themes of the play as a whole can be found, through a detailed analysis of the characters, their speech and the imagery the scene contains. Among other things, jealousy, the supernatural/natural world and love in all its different forms are explored in this essay. The paper contains a thorough analysis of the characters, imagery and ideas all contained within the scene, which can be applied to to the rest of the play as a whole.

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"Cupid's "fiery shaft" renders the idea/theme of love as a fiery, passionate and heated affliction, that literally pierces the heart in a shower of flames. This idea foretells the lovesick hysteria that is soon to enfold the young Athenians, and can especially be seen in Helen as she traipses after the desperate Demetrius. The "shaft" itself is contrasted with the description of the moon, which is "chaste" and "watery", a hazy image in comparison to Cupid's blazing arrow. The sing-song alliteration mirrors the maiden's carefree state, in which she carries on unscathed by Cupid's plan. The notion of love as an infliction (albeit a desirable infliction) is stressed once more by Oberon's description of the "love-in-idleness" as "a little western flower" which has been turned "purple with love's wound"."

Tags:demetrius, helena, hermia, love, nature, oberon, titania, world

Abstract
The paper discusses "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. The paper notes that the play weaves together the three subject themes: a reality in Athens, a dream-state in the woods, and the play-within-the play. The paper discusses that it is a tale of three romances, of love triangles, of jealousy and hilarity. The paper also states that Shakespeare's play is therefore structured to ask its readers and viewing audiences to contemplate the meaning of fiction and its impact on human consciousness.

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"They share characters and situations. For example, all four of the play's central human characters fall asleep in the woods and enter its dreamlike world. Hermia, Helena, Demetrius and Lysander all appear in the city and in the woods and have equally significant roles in both worlds. Likewise, Bottom and the rest of the craftsmen troop practice "Pyramus and Thisbe" in the woods but perform it to the king and queen-to-be in Athens. The woods therefore serves as the place in which dreams are created, crafted, and nurtured. Those dreams then impact the daily lives of those living in the concrete world of the city, just as Shakespeare's play impacts the daily lives of those who read and watch them."

Tags:three, worlds, significant, roles, essential, reality

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This paper will discuss the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" By Philip Dick and seek to find the gothic nature of this tale. The main characters, setting and other descriptions of this electronic world will be discussed in order to better understand how the author seeks to convey a sense of darkness in his world. Also, discussed will be Dick's sense of perception on the matter of androids and how they relate to living beings in this futuristic story.

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The paper examines how Puck's speech relates to the play as a whole and discusses how its serious, solid images contrast with the images of the fairy world that Puck ultimately sweeps away. The paper discusses how it is a drama about what truth really is and how perilously the swaying narrow bridge of this substantial world spans the chasm of chaos. The paper shows how Puck's subdued soliloquy (V: 1:363-382) evokes this uneasy and fearsome reality because his images of a medieval night, though they are hinted at by the fairy world, are far more solid and disturbing than any of their counterparts in "the fairy world that is presented by so many graphic details...of the Warwickshire countryside" (Clemen 90).

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"Puck's speech relates to the play as a whole because its serious, solid images contrast with the images of the fairy world that Puck ultimately sweeps away. It is a drama about what truth really is and how perilously the swaying narrow bridge of this substantial world spans the chasm of chaos. "Unless we see that these mature comedies are thematically serious we shall never get them right" (Kermode 127). Puck's subdued soliloquy (V: 1:363-382) evokes this uneasy and fearsome reality because his images of a medieval night, though they are hinted at by the fairy world, are far more solid and disturbing than any of their counterparts in "the fairy world...""

Tags:literary, analysis, midsummer