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    In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the mythological characters, including fairies, play a key role in the development of the plot. The king and queen of the fairies, Oberon and Titania, get into a dispute since Oberon wants the changeling boy but Titania will not give him up. Oberon plans to get revenge on Titania so he sends a fairy, Robin Goodfellow, to fetch a flower with magical properties which makes a person fall in love. Mythology plays a key role in developing themes throughout the

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    can’t afford this rite of passage. At first my only thought was “I hate this! All my friends are having a quince, why can’t I?” and I remember just loathing the fact that I wasn’t able to have one for quite some time. I understood where my mother was coming from. She was a single mother and was raising two other children other than myself so it must have been hard to say “No, you can’t have a quince.” She would tell me how much she wishes that she would have thrown the biggest party for my rite of passage

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    encounter. “Life Changing Instructions” was scribbled boldly at the top with an address duly following in faded pencil. 2477 Poggles Quince Lot, Charleston, South Carolina; an address belonging to my great-great-great-great-grandparents in which had been passed down through my family for generations just for this occasion. I will always remember my first experience at Poggles Quince Lot because that was the day that my imagination was truly unlocked and my future was placed in the palms of my hands. Toner

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    irony of this trick with Bottom's reactions to his friends' remarks, again this is mainly for comic relief: Snout: O bottom, thou art changed. What do I see on thee? Bottom: What do you see? You see an ass-head of your own, do you? [Exit Snout] Quince: Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee! Thou art translated. [Exit] Bottom: I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me... (ll. ii.104-108). Bottom makes more remarks to being an ass, but because he is a fool, he never realizes that he is an ass

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    Bottom confuses deflow’red with devoured. The word deflowered means “to destroy flowers or to take away beauty or innocence.” [5]Since Bottom confuses these two words, the audience sees Bottom as an uneducated(adj) commoner(pn). [T]Moreover, when Quince announces the roles of the Mechanicals, he says, “Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby’s mother” (1.2.61-62). Starveling last name is an aptronym because he is a tailor. [2]During the Elizabethan Era, tailors were poor and skinny so they looked

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    Royal characters laugh and he still is over acting as usual! Bottom is probably slightly big headed as he feels that he is capable of playing all the characters in the Mechanicals play 'Pyramus and Thisbe.' He tries to convince Peter Quince, the director of the play that he is better than everyone else and wants to play all the characters. Although this shows Bottom as being big headed, it seems as though Bottom doesn't realise and just thinks that he is doing what's

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    ACT IV 1. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies? Bottom at first was questioning why the fairies and Titania were respecting him with so much love, but then he embraces it. Bottom enjoys the attention he receives from Titania and her fairies, which isn’t very surprising because he loves himself. 2. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom? Oberon initial reaction was enjoyment and found it humorous that Titania fell in love with an ass, Bottom

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    “fifteen year old girl,” the term has become more closely associated with the celebration itself, oftentimes by non-latinx people. Among Latin American families and culture, the celebration is often referred to as “fiesta de quince años” (fifteen year party) or simply a “quinces.” To avoid any confusion, I use “quinceanera” to refer to the celebration, rather than the individual, for the remainder of this paper. Historically, fifteen was seen as the age when Latina girls were ready for marriage, and

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    The plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is made up of four subplots that intertwine with one another. Four young Athenians forced to flee from authority in response to an arranged marriage, a estranged relationship between the King and Queen of Faeries, a group of players fighting over a play, and a wedding. While each of these subplots are unique, they are connected not only by one event but a binary theme—control and rebellion. In the case of the four Athenian lovers, the binary theme of control

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    Mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare The "mechanicals" consist of Peter Quince (a carpenter), Snug (a joiner), Nick Bottom (a weaver), Francis Flute (a bellows-mender), Tom Snout (a tinker) and Robin Starveling (a tailor). We first come across the "mechanicals" as they stumble into the woods to rehearse their play, for the Royal Wedding of Helena and Demetrius, and, Hermia and Lysander. This is when we realise that they are not very intelligent

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