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    The Real Inspector Hound Contrasting settings, ideals and people dominate The Real Inspector Hound. Almost every character has an opposite, and is otherwise totally unique. Cynthia is opposite to Felicity, Simon is the contrast of Magnus, and so on. Tom Stoppard has included these contrasts for a variety of reasons and effects that combine to create the disturbing effect of the play incredibly effectively. But what individual effects do his characters create by

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    William Shakespeare, was a poet that has been acknowledged as one of the greatest play writers and dramatist of all times. He had a gift to transpire heartaches, love and outrage, throughout all his literary creations. This gift protruded all through his many plays and sonnets that he ended up leaving as a part of his legacy. “Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict.” [1]. In my eyes, what allows Shakespeare to have become so incomparable, was his creative

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    twelfth Night, Shakespeare explore and portray love and its emotion in a different and confusing way. Love is defined as the strong feelings and the abstraction toward someone, but Shakespeare seem to do not believe in such "strong feeling" because of the confusing way he distributed love in this play. Does Shakespeare believe in love at first sight or he just wants us to see how quick we can fall in love? In Twelfth Night, there are characters that experienced the emotion of love, but some of them

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    Love has complications in Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer’s Night Dream, these complications can arise in our relationships as well. The path of true love never runs smoothly; there are always obstacles put in the way by fate. Titania and Oberon, Hermia and Lysander and Thisbe and Pyramus all had obstacles put in the way by fate to test their relationships. William Shakespeare focused on the non-physical things in Titania and Oberon’s relationship. Firstly, Shakespeare focused on the bad communication

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    Shakespeare does not depict love accurately in Twelfth Night for multiple reasons. First of all, the characters far in love unrealistically quickly. One might argue that the characters are obtaining what their idea of love is, but they have flawed visions of what love actually is. To the characters, love is impulsive, and it’s more about personal gain, rather than being around someone who brings out the best in you, which should be your main focus. Love should be about caring for someone who you

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    William Shakespeare was a poet that has been acknowledged as one of the greatest play writers and dramatist of all times. He had a gift to transpire heartaches, love, and outrage, throughout all his literary creations. This gift protruded all through his many plays and sonnets that he ended up leaving as a part of his legacy. "Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict." [1]. In my eyes, what allows Shakespeare to have become so incomparable, was his creative

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    interpretation of romance While A Midsummer’s Night Dream and Shakespeare in Love both following the concept of Shakespearian romances and demonstrate it in different ways. A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the stronger concept of Shakespearian romance due to the fact it was written by William Shakespeare himself. Hollywood did a wonderful interpretation of Shakespearian romance in Shakespeare in Love considering there is no prior information how Shakespeare came on to the idea of Romeo and Juliet. On the other

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    written by William Shakespeare, there are many quotes that have deep meaning. One of those quotes being when Lysander says “The course of true love never did run smooth” (Shakespeare, 15). This quote can have multiple meanings and can have different effects on the situation it is placed in. There are three couples in this play Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius and Titania and Oberon in which this quote applies to their love lives with each other. All these couples show how true love never did run

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    The Theme of Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare In the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ many aspects of love are explored. In this essay I will be exploring how Shakespeare conveys the theme of love including illusion, confusion, escape, harmony and lust. Historically, it has been suggested that ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was written for a wedding, signifying the importance of love in this play, however there is no real evidence to prove this

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    political activism-- love and manipulation have never been mutually exclusive. Indeed, it often seems as though the more one loves, the more one influences, and is influenced by, the will of another. One finds a remarkable discourse on this phenomena woven throughout the action of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; against the backdrop of royal intrigue, Shakespeare presents a tale that decries all of love’s virtues, leaving one with an assurance that love is anything but true

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