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"A Midsummer Night?s Dream" by William Shakespeare, 2002.
An examination of the dream theme of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night?s Dream".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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Dreaming and what happens during the period of slumber are two important themes that emerge from the Shakespearean comedy ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream?. This paper discusses the difference between actual dreams and the surreal situation in order to grasp the meaning and significance of ?dreaming? in the play.
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"A Midsummer Night?s dream, as the name suggest, is full of instances of fantasy and illusion which makes it on the one hand, a beautiful magical tale while on the other a comic story where surrealism outweighs every other force. While many would think that love is the dominant theme of the play, the playwright it appears had another theme in mind when he created this story. Shakespeare has given dreams a more dominant role to play in the plot because it is during the period of slumber that magical things happen to the characters, which completely change the course of the play."
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Film: "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2007.
This paper compares Michael Hoffman's 1999 film, "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Shakespeare's original play.
2,350 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper explains that, for his 1999 film, "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream", Michael Hoffman rewrote the original Shakespeare play, put it into a more modern context and emphasized artistic visual expression over Shakespeare's expression through the poetry of language. The author points out that Hoffman modernized the gender roles by creating a dialogue for Bottom's wife, thus increasing her importance; wherein, in the original play, her role consisted of a stare. The paper relates that, to appeal to modern cultural standards, the movie has been made more aesthetically pleasing by the fantasy theatrics of the costumes and makeup.
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"The first and most evident difference between the 1999 film adaptation and the original play by Shakespeare is the setting. Shakespeare's work is set in Greece, while Hoffman's is set in the turn of the 20th century Tuscany. It was also filmed in Tuscany. "Hoffman moves the action forward in time and sets it in late 19th-Century Tuscany" writes Welsh, but it is questioned whether this "new setting makes sense". Thus Hoffman's version has an immediate difference between that of Shakespeare's which took place in the traditional classical setting."
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Magic in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 2000.
An exploration of Shakespeare's treatment of magic and the supernatural in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
1,450 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper explores the theme of magic in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', and discusses how Shakespeare uses supernatural elements throughout the play. It considers the boundaries between good and evil, and comments upon the ways Shakespeare presents the play as a supernaturally charged adventure.
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"There was a strong belief in the supernatural in Shakespeare?s era and subsequently, some form of the supernatural realm is a common theme throughout his plays. The supernatural is a central theme in A Midsummer Night?s Dream which is set in an enchanted fairyland wood and the play clearly demonstrates the power of the supernatural and the dramatic influence the spiritual world has upon the natural order of things. "
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Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2007.
An analysis of the marriage relationship that Oberon has with Titania in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
1,001 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines the portrayal of the married couple, Oberon and Titania, in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The writer discusses the element of trust in a relationship and looks at the way Oberon mistrusts Titania. The writer further discusses the importance of respect in a marriage and explains the reasons for Oberon's disrespect. The writer also argues that a married couple should never disrespect the freewill of the other spouse, and suggests that Oberon takes this ability of freewill from Titania as soon as the love potion is given to her. The writer concludes that people can forgive even the most horrific actions all because of love.
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"A married couple should be willing to share their attention and love. They should trust one another enough to realize that love for another being does not take away from the love they share. Oberon does not trust Titania enough to realize that her love for him has not disappeared just because she loves the Indian child. Oberon disrespects Titania by being jealous of her love and the care she gives to the Indian child. The biggest disrespect is when he puts Titania under the love spell to gain for his own good. Oberon is jealous of the little Indian boy that Titania has been given to care for. He feels as though her is attention completely on the baby."
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Shakespeare?s "A Midsummer Night?s Dream", 2004.
Analysis of one the most famous characters in Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
839 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper analyzes Puck, one of the main characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and explains how the character of Puck is central to the play, in spite of the fact that Shakespeare did not develop Puck's character more fully.
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"Shakespeare is notorious for creating memorable characters and perhaps one of his most famous characters is Puck from his play, A Midsummer Night?s Dream. While Puck is critical to the development of the play, his character remains essentially flat throughout the course of the play. Puck is poetic, playful, innocent, and enjoys laughing at those who become the victims of his antics. However, we do not witness Puck?s development as a character. In a sense, he never grows up and we never see any depth of his character."
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William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2006.
This paper analyzes the use of comedy in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as presented in the play-within-a-play, 'The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisby', in Act V.
1,495 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper describes William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream as preposterous, and arsy-versy. The author points out that, by using the rude mechanicals, Shakespeare seems to be arguing that arsy-versy can turn even the most lamentable tragedy into a roaring comedy. The paper relates that an example of arsy-versy of one of the rude mechanicals is called Snug the Joiner, whose rhetoric is so slow and disjointed that he asks for his lines written in advance. The author also then discusses Titania as an example of preposterousnous, explaining that she is the fairy goddess who falls deeply in love with Bottom despite his having an ass for a head of which he is unaware. The paper concludes that the backwards reaction to the events of the play-within-the-play points to Shakespeare's message that people are insensitive to their own follies and yet are very perceptive of the same follies found in others.
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"As the play begins, the preposterousness of the presentation is immediately shown in the prologue, which the rude mechanicals took great care to write so as not to offend the court. Peter Quince's delivery of the prologue presents a message opposite from the intended one. "If we offend, it is with our good will," he says, unfortunately telling the court that his intent is to offend. "All for your delight," he later says, "we are not here". The players then continue to present their play in a rather backwards manner; by making it crystal clear to the court that what they see in front of them isn't real."
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Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night Dream", 2007.
This paper compares and contrasts Shakespear's original version of "A Midsummer's Night Dream" with the film version.
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper discusses how both the film and the original version of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy "A Midsummer's Night Dream" use the same words to tell a tale of temporarily thwarted young love. Yet, there are many differences the paper illustrates. The paper explains that because the film uses visual images to illustrate the words of the Shakespearean play and makes use of selective cutting to emphasize certain scenes over others, the film offers a more selective view of dreams and dreaming as opposed to the play that is viewed in its complete and uncut form.
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"The nature of cinema allows the director of "A Midsummer's Night Dream" to make the fairies, such as Titania, Oberon, and Puck seem much more fantastical in contrast to the earth-bound mortals. The fairies float; strange, beautiful lights surround them. Yet in this rendition, they lose some of the earthier, humorous, and more interesting mortal qualities in contrast to the warring fairy characters in the play."
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Romantic Love in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 2001.
This is an exploration of how romantic love can turn lovers into fools.
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper looks at Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as an example of how Cupid's arrow can make people defy convention and reason. Through an examination of the characters and their roles, the author supports the thesis that love causes a person to become irrational and can often cause them to lose touch with reality.
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"The fighting continues between the four. Helena gets more and more upset, particularly at Hermia, who was once her dearest, closest friend, and whom she now suspects is being cruel to her. Hermia herself is very confused, at both the fact that Lysander no longer wants anything to do with her, and the fact that Helena seems to not trust her. Once the argument ceases and the four go off into the forest, so Demetrius and Lysander can duke it out over Helena, Puck catches up to set things "right". Oberon's wish is that the original lovers Lysander and Hermia are reunited, and that Demetrius will stay in love with Helena, and she will believe his love to be true."
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2006.
This paper discusses and analyzes the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The writer of this article studies various acts of Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The paper provides a view of one of Shakespeare's most famous and most loved works. In particular, the paper looks at how an all-male cast affects three pivotal scenes and explains how this staging tactic demands that audiences respond in a particular way. The writer explains that using only men in all the roles would have been common in Shakespeare's time, but today, it seems to take away from the impact and humor of the play.
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"Clearly, the implications and consequences of the play are different when all the cast members are one gender. Some of the passion goes out of the play, and some of the scenes may even seem ridiculous or far-fetched. Personally, the play is funny and emotional, and some of that might just seem like farce to the audience when the cast was all male. It might seem more like "The Bird Cage" or other gay films. Giving hints of femaleness may work with some of the cast, but in other scenes, giving hints may simply take away the dramatic effect and lessen the impact of the play. The femaleness of the female characters is very important to the play, but it can be overcome with actors who believe in what they are doing and deliver their lines with conviction. Tongue-in-cheek lines will ruin the entire meaning and impact of the play."
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"A Midsummer Night?s Dream", 2004.
A look at the themes of dream and reality in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night?s Dream".
1,587 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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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."
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2002.
An examination of the themes of magic and imagination in Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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Specifically, this paper presents a thesis that magic and imagination drive the events of the story in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" more than in any other Shakespearean play, thus making "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Shakespeare's only play of pure fantasy.
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Transformations in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2002.
This paper examines the recurring changes of the moon and the transformation of the characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
1,465 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 4 sources, $ 48.95
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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."
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"Midsummer Night's Dream", 2002.
An analysis of the theme of desire in William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Nights Dream".
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An analysis of the idea of desire in the play Midsummer Nights Dream, and how the characters of Shakespeare's play portray this in the text. By analyzing how love and relationships play into this theme, we can see relate how madness plays a part in their demise.
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream", 2004.
An examination of love as the theme of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
1,631 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper examines love as the central theme in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. The paper contends that love is seen in several relationships throughout the play and, therefore, can be seen as the overall theme throughout the play. The paper examines each of those relationships and instances where love is prevalent.
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"The theme of A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare can be found in the true statement of Lysander in Act I Scene I Line 134, "the course of true love never did run smooth." (A Midsummer Nights Dream) During the course of this play four young lovers enter the woods each battling their own rocky course of love. They each experience several different things before finally emerging from the woods two happy couples. Two other couples also experience a difficult path to love during the course of the play, the duke and his new wife, and the mystical beings Titania and Oberon. At times these couples' paths cross and desires are swapped, making this tale a true story of difficult love and uneasy paths."
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"A Midsummer Night?s Dream", 2004.
A review of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
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This paper discusses the play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. The paper examines how the play employs the same parallels that exist in reality within the make-believe world of the enchanted forest. The paper explains how the placement of a play within a play superimposes life's small episodes within the larger framework of reality. While the play is a comedy about life, the paper contends that it also alludes to the absurdity of resolving conflict.
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"The two sets of lovers that enter the forest leave the reality of Athens for the magic of the fairyland. Unbeknownst to them, it is the magic of the fairies that sorts out their tangled relationships while they sleep. In the real world of Athens, the harsh reality is that Hermia must either wed the man her father wishes her to, live the life of a cloistered celibate, or be put to death. The acquiescence of Theseus and his persuasion of Hermia's father to permit the wedding between Hermia and Lysander, allow the returning lovers and Demetrius and Helena to remain partners. The four lovers are changed from an uncertain future in Athens to a life together after spending the night in the forest. This is a fairy-tale story from many viewpoints. It is the fairies that have worked their magic on the couples making the outcome viable. The pairing that results is the best for all involved. Although it appears Demetrius remains under the spell of the love juice even after they return to the city, the other individuals are now guided by their own passions, and any misguided love has been redirected to the appropriate partner."
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