Hippolyta

A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare demonstrates that imagination is an amazing thing, as it allows the audience to think differently and be unique and form new ideas, concepts and images. Shakespeare’s play uses an immense amount of imagination to help develop the story create conflicts and complications to engage the audience. Imagination is also used in the way Shakespeare presents the play to the audience and in the way the characters are presented. Imagination is used a lot in

where incredible and unbelievable events occur allowing the characters’ true emotions to reign supreme. The first setting of Athens represents the real world consisting of problems and boring lifestyle. At the beginning of the play, Theseus and Hippolyta are starting to prepare for their grand wedding. Athens may be a place for festivities but it also is a place fit

In William Shakespeare’s famous play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theseus and Hippolyta plan to marry in four days. Lysander and Hermia run away to elope so she can avoid her father’s pick for her, Demetrius. He follows them and is followed by Helena. Oberon, the fairy king, squeezes a magical potion onto his wife Titania’s eyes so that he may have the baby currently in her care for his court, and she will fall in love with the first living creature she sees. However, Puck causes some extra mischief

characters ;such as, rebel Hermia refused to follow her father's desire to marry Demetrius, Queen of the fairies Tatiana disobeyed her husband and declined to give him the Indian boy who he wants a part of his crew .While the former queen of Amazon Hippolyta married the Duke Theseus. The conflict between women's revolt and the authority of men was obvious in Midsummer night's dream. Hermia's strong personality appeared at beginning of the play. She refused to submit to the authority of the

table. While she balances chemical equations, I break words into morphemes. I read Whitman discovering the unity of nature while she reads about the insects and geology formations in nature. Thoreau screams in my mind, “Simplify! Simplify!” but the Hippolyta in her strives to create. She calls me lame when I transcribe sentences phonetically and note the parts of speech over each word, but I return the favor when she shows me a new method of solving a math problem. I flip through an anthology while as

are hard especially when the husband and wife love different people. In this story they are lovers and this pacific couple are having a hard time with cheating and other things. Oberon says “How can you stand there shamelessly talking about me and Hippolyta, when you

Shakespeare obviously put this apology in the ending of this play for a reason, most likely he was afraid of some being offended and the hate that would bounce back his way from those he offended. This apology reminds the audience it is all for entertainment and to not take these questionable actions, stereotypes and jokes seriously. But why did he feel the need to write an apology, what was it that was so offensive? I personally feel it was the relations between aristocrats and members of the working

Irrational Love, Dreams, and a Positive Ending The lines between reality and fantasy and love and reason may be thinner than once thought, at least according to Shakespeare. In a Midsummer Night’s dream, Shakespeare uses dreams, contrast, and a play within a play to convey the irrationality of love while providing insight to dreams. Shakespeare uses dreams throughout the play to contrast reality and fantasy, and also to express the importance and usefulness of them. Dreams are important because

Hercules Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have in human strength ? Hercules (is also known as Heracles) has this strength. He was half man and half god. His father is Zeus, who is the god of the sky and and ruler of the Olympian gods and his mother is a mortal named Alcmene. Hercules also has a mother of the gods Hera, who is married to Zeus. He didn't know he was part god until he had grown into a man. Zeus always watched over his son on earth and was a proud father. This

An Elizabethan Era Play with a Greek Twist William Shakespeare wrote the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, sometime in the 1590's. The play, a romantic comedy, portrays the adventures of four young lovers, an amateur actor's group, their interactions with a Duke and Duchess, and with fairies in a moonlit forest. Although Shakespeare used certain themes in this play to portray Greek aspects, the reflection of Elizabethan England is dominant in several different ways. Shakespeare's use of fairies