Stage Drama Essay- Question One In the play Away by Richard Gow, a historical and cultural context including established connotations and characters roles from Historical Literature, and significant events in history are employed to enable the viewer to understand the play on the abstract level. ... This is evident in Away from Act 1 Scene 1 where Tom plays 'Puck' in the Highschool play A Midsummer's Night Dream. 'Puck' is a mischievous character whose magic helps to confuse, but finally reconcile the pairs of lovers in the play. ...

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So he tells Puck, Oberon's servant, to put a magic flower juice on her eyelids while she is sleeping. ... Puck now has journeyed to the area where several actors are rehearsing. ... In hopes of solving the problem, Puck places magic juice on Demetrius while he is sleeping. ... Puck persuades them to sleep all together and more of the antidote is placed on the eyes of Lysander. ... As described in the critical essay by Shirley Nelson Garner, the dominating male power and strange sex roles of the characters is fluent throughout the play. ...

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In this essay I will try to give you the plot, the play and I will also try to show the obstacles that prove "The course of true love never did run smooth." ... Then the puck returns to his master Oberon and tells him all the deeds that he performed. ... Oberon is watching the whole spectacle and he gets furious about the mess the Puck created. ... In the end of act III the Puck is looking at the lovers and says, "Lord what fools these mortals be!... He orders the puck to change Bottom back to normal, but first he wakes up Titania. ...

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The Representation of Fairies and Their Relationship with the Human World According to K.M Briggs Shakespeare's fairies are "elementals, they control the weather and seasons" (The Anatomy of Puck, 45). ... Shakespeare's Puck himself acknowledges that he is the cause of little domestic accidents. ... Miller, author of the critical essay, "A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Fairies, Bottom, and the Mystery of Things," also allegorises the fairies, but relates them to humans; "When the fairies come on stage [] their status is immediately called into question. Puck&...

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This essay will try to focus on the two important characters Hermia and Helena and try to analyse through their language and behaviour to come up with their similarities and differences of one another. ... In Act1 scene1 Hermia clearly shows that she enjoys the control that she has over Helena, however when the roles are switched over to Helena's advantage, through Puck's potion, Hermia acts very childishly that contrast with Helena's earlier attitude. ... Although this essay seems to have brought along quite a lot of differences between the two characters, overall it can be...

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Those are the three conflicts that will be further analyzed throughout the essay. ... Oberon is angered by this and calls on his "puck", Robin, to obtain a special flower. ... The three scenes that have been further analyzed in this essay were very obvious uses of conflict to create humor. ...

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• Grade Level: High School