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However, I believe the opposite. This play makes a statement about shallowness, the partnership of a married couple and what virtues are truly valuable.

This summer I had the wonderful opportunity to see West Texas A&M’s summer production of William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Nights Dream. It was a beautiful show that had the intended message to explore the idea of love and how it preservers through hardship and misunderstanding if you truly belong together. Through out the ages this theme of young love has remained relevant and still applies today. Teenagers and young adults alike continue to hunt for young love often disregarding approval from their parents much like the characters in Midsummer Nights Dream. The cast of this production took this classic to keeping true to the original theme while adding a few modern touches to the costumes to keep the show interesting and pertinent to today’s reality.

The 1500’s play focuses more on marriage, as like teenage dating in this modern era, for the play’s intended audience, it was marriage that the Elizabethan era society was preoccupied on, and was something they felt they “had to do”. The difference between relationships and marriage is shown

Shakespearean comedies, like “The Taming of the Shrew”, “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” and “The Merchant of Venice”, typically end with a happy ending usually involving a marriage between a couple that was courting throughout the play. The ill-matched couples courting throughout the play often encounter obstacles and experience an uncanny style of courting. Shakespeare focuses on the hectic courting of the poorly matched individuals married at the end of the play rather than the future lives of these newlyweds is not given much thought in order to give the play a light ending. Rather than Shakespeare describing love as a natural human state, necessary for true happiness, Shakespeare’s plays are doubtful about marriage’s ability to provide

This is especially true in their pursuit of love and acceptance. The ways the characters strive for their desires are meant to hit the audience in the gut. The relationships between characters and the actions of the characters have heavy emotional, visceral, and erotic impact. These actions and interactions are meant to show the lengths people will go so they do not feel unloved. The characters in the play are constantly expressing and denying their love for each other.

The play Our Town shows the love story of a young couple. It shows the ups and downs of Emily and Georges’ relationship, however, one thing remains constant; their love which is the center focus of the play. Love and marriage is a meaning of life for the characters. The love shown is not only the love between the couples, but it is fatherly love, and friendly love as well. In the play Our Town, there are many themes, but all the smaller themes derive from one major theme, and that is love and marriage.

You have a really strong argument and position and I really like it. After seeing what you said about bonds and relationships through the play and how this effects the whole story; I started to think how this was a big theme that I missed. I think you picked a perfect quote, it supports your claim very well. The creation of the Quote Sandwich was done very well. You told the readers what you wanted to prove and then went on to show the quote that supports you and ended it with explaining the quote and why it is important.

My favorite play is Almost, Maine by John Cariani. I have seen two student productions and I doubt I could ever tire of it. I have never considered myself an especially romantic person in my own life, but I love seeing portrayals of romance in theatre. Love fosters endless possibilities for diverse plotlines and emotions that are somehow simultaneously unique to each situation and universal. I particularly like Almost, Maine because it explores so many different routes that love can take. Most of the scenes are cute and heart-warming, but a few of them deal with serious relationship issues and heartbreak, from simple regret to the distinct pain of gradually fading away from someone who was once your other half. Love is a vulnerability and the

The topic of love is widely discussed among many platforms, poetry, film, and novel to name a few. Romantic comedies alone make up a large portion of “love stories.” Shakespeare uses the form of a romantic comedy to discuss his own ideas of love. His ideas of love are present in his play, Much Ado About Nothing. Many of Shakespeare’s ideas are still relevant so far after his time.

I really enjoyed this play because there was so much significance within the characters’ lives and the author’s life. I learned many interesting facts about the character which managed to capture my attention throughout my research and while reading the

When I first read the excerpt from this play, my immediate reaction was “wow that was it?” After my first reading of the play, I thought that it was just a simple play made for fun. But I realized after rereading it a few more times that it actually has a deeper meaning than what it appears to have.

The play was predominantly about nine separate acts which were all relatively similar. All acts have distinct backgrounds, but they all involve the two characters striving for true love regardless if the two just met or they have known each other for years. In my opinion, the play went along smoothly and everything was comprehensible, but the only event

In the world of tragedy and comedy plays, the lives of the characters are vibrant in their nature. Forbidden love, plotting wives and infectious tempers are portrayed within the plays as a result of love and marriage. The theme of marriage features heavily in these plays and Shakespeare portrays the nature of marriage in the plays Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet as well as The Taming of the Shrew in multi-faceted ways. This essay will explore how the nature of marriage and love is represented in the two tragedies, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. It will also draw comparison with the nature of marriage in the play, The Taming of the Shrew.

I have to say, this play was intriguing to me, with the three interlocking plots, all of which surrounding a common theme; marriages. I am not familiar with this play outside of this class, I had wanted to see the Hollywood adaptation with Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Stanley Tucci, but I never got around to it. To be honest, I didn’t identify with any of the characters or the plot itself, which caused great difficulty in choosing an angle for this paper.

Most of the characters in the play have a certain role and most of them have a special bond with another person and share one of the three types of love. Some characters share the love of