I am female, white, and straight. Five years from now, I will be living the American dream, marrying an average working-class hero type of man. I will be happy and in love. ... The argument should not have to go beyond that. ... If Romeo and Juliet had a choice, they would not have fallen in love. ...
Novels can have more than one setting showing different themes of the novel. ... Shakespeare displays the mischievous by, "Forsook his scene and entered in a brake, When I did him at this advantage take, An ass's nole I fixèd on his head.... Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream the two settings Athens and the forest both contrast each other grately having different action and themes in each setting. ... To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?... A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, the two settings Athens and the forest both contrast each o...
Two themes present in many of Shakespeare's plays, the transition of reality into only a dream and the absurd nature of love form a large part of the dramatic content of A Midsummer Night's Dream. ... Earlier in the play, we have already been introduced to the interchangeability of the characters. ... Hermia remarks that, "Methinks I see these things with parted eye, When everything seems double." ... Towards the end of the passage, Demetrius says "And by the way let us recount our dreams." (IV.i.195) It is interesting that like Bottom, the lovers have once again transformed reality ...
My Dream House would be a reflection of me. ... To make my guest feel more welcome, I have decided to put double doors. ... I will have a couch and two single chairs done in a Victorian style. ... I have engraved the balcony scene from shakespeare Romeo and Juliet. ... Because I feel a good life is filled with alot of twist and turns; I have a maze on my state! ...
My Dream House would be a reflection of me. ... To make my guest feel more welcome, I have decided to put double doors. ... I will have a couch and two single chairs done in a Victorian style. ... I have engraved the balcony scene from shakespeare Romeo and Juliet. ... Because I feel a good life is filled with alot of twist and turns; I have a maze on my state! ...
Without the conflict between the two families none of this would have happened. ... Romeo and Juliet have dreams and premonitions about their deaths and about disasters quite often through the play. ... All through the play Romeo dreams of this, the last time he does is in Act 5 Scene 1 Line 6. "I dreamt my lady came and found me dead." ... They had no control over their dreams either therefore this was also fate. ...
As the Black Death was making its voyage from Sicily to conquer the European countries, an eager Shakespeare might have been contemplating whether or not to write a comedy or a drama. ... This poem is about a husband's attempt to convince his wife to have children. In the sonnet, Shakespeare relies on his wife's fear of mortality in order to try to convince her to have children, achieving immortality. ... It is also the time to have a child, and pass on one's beauty and youth. ... The speaker of the poem opens with a question that is addressed to his beloved, "Shall I compar...
This scene conveys to the audience how quickly a young couple's hopes and dreams can be transformed into despair and tragedy. ... Romeo descends bye the balcony, "Farewell, farewell; one kiss and I"ll descend." ... She plans to have Romeo murdered, "I"ll send to one in Mantua, Where that same banished runage doth live, Shall give him such an unaccustomed dram, That he shall soon keep Tybalt company; " Lady Capulet then continues to deliver the news to Juliet that on the following Thursday Juliet is to marry Paris. ... I feel it would be appropriate for this part to be...
He then says, "I will be civil with the maids. I will cut off their heads." ... By this time Romeo and Juliet have performed their marriage without any parental consent, which was an offense against her demanding father. ... Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee." ... Juliet takes part in Romeo's dream and speaks of her kiss reviving him from his death and making him an emperor. ...
Immediately prior to gate crashing the party, Romeo reveals a dream that he had dreamed the previous night. ... The prophetic property of this dream again reinforces Fate as the motivating force, once again using the stars as an agent of Fate. ... Coincidently Romeo is within earshot when she proclaims her love, "be but sworn my love,/ And I"ll no longer be a Capulet."... When Romeo realises the repercussions that his actions may have, he reflects on his own bad fortune " O, I am fortunes fool." ... Romeo upon receiving this misinformation challenges Fate "I defy you, stars!" ...
Similarity "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet" both show how powerful love can be. ... "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a play about magic, transformations, and how love fits into this type of world. ... But isn't love at first sight a fantasy a lot of people have today? It feels as if Shakespeare had this dream, or fantasy, of his own that he intertwined into his style and method of writing. The most obvious transformation I observed was the fact that everyone kept falling in love with the people they were not supposed to. ...
Romeo was looking to this power, asking of this power to direct him, not to an untimely death as he foresaw in his dream, but to just steer him, because that is the control which he knows he does not have over himself. ... Romeo and Juliet throughout the play have dreams or visions of their deaths. ... Dreams or experiences often hint to things or have a meaning. ... The Prince was fed up with them and their brawls, such as Act I, scene i, "...By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets...If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream, written by William Shakespeare during the year 1594-95 is a popular comedy play about the thrilling adventures, trials and experiences of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with woodland faeries. ... After the play, Titania, Oberon and the other fairies briefly emerge to ensure future harmony and bless the newly wedded couples while Puck remains to ask the audience for its forgiveness and approval and to remember the play as though it had all been a dream. ... Fairies, away/ We shall chide downright if I longer stay" (2.1....
Romeo and Juliet could not have avoided coming in contact with each other, they were brought together by uncontrollable circumstances. ... If Rosaline had not been invited to this party, Romeo would not have even thought about attending it in the first place. ... "Stay fellow I can read" Act 1, Scene 2 Line 63. ... Although Juliet is the girl of Romeo's dreams, their families are enemies, which leads to conflict during the play, yet they don't let it get in the way of their love. ... Then I defy you, stars." ...
When he is on his way to Capulet's party, where he meets Juliet for the first time, he recalls a vision in a dream the night before: "I fear too early, for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels, and expire the term Of a despised life, closed in my breast, By some vile forfeit of untimely death. ... By this he means that there is a greater power, namely fate, that is leading him, and that he does not have any free will. ... In the morning, Juliet tries to convince Romeo to stay with...
"(1.4.107) He's mainly saying that he had a dream which leads him to believe that he will die young because of something in the stars, something beyond his control. ... Romeo and Juliet throughout the play have dreams or visions of their deaths. For instance, after Romeo was exiled from Verona and he was about to leave Juliet, she says "Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb." ( 3.5.55) This suggests that Juliet is destined to find Romeo dead in a tomb, not when, how or why. ... Like Romeo says "And, But thou love me, let them find me here. / My li...
Everyone, once in their lifetime must have come across Romeo and Juliet and enjoyed the play. The Madhouse in Mantua, which is also known as Romeo's Magical Dream, is what some may call a part two to the play. ... What happens to Romeo while locked up is something that the play will have to unravel. ... I believe that there would be more a sense of the madhouse if all the walls where to have been painted white on what was the stage. When I think of a madhouse, I think of white walls. ...
Had Romeo restrained himself from killing Tybalt, or waited even one day before killing himself after hearing the news of Juliet's death, matters might have ended happily. Of course, though, had Romeo not had such depths of feeling, the love he shared with Juliet would never have existed in the first place. ...
"In my mind I am eloquent" (page 10.), he expresses. ... R shows us that zombies can have feelings, hopes, and dreams. ... Julie expresses he "was this brilliant, fiery kid, so weird and funny and full of dreams" (page 55). ... As the narrative, R effectively voices himself in comparison to other books I have heard of in the same genre. ... Although I have not read any other novels within this theme, Romeo and Juliet portrays a similar premise throughout the novel Warm Bodies. ...
Munder, Julie English I, per ¾ March 4, 2003 Mrs. ... They came with high hopes, but their dreams where shattered when the Jets express hatred towards them. ... The officer has certain facets that allude to the Prince in Romeo and Juliet, yet by stating to the Jets, "Boys, just tell me, I am on your side. I want those Puerto Ricans out of here just as much as you - (West Side Story), he shows that not only does he favor the Jets, he would rather have the Puerto Ricans out of New York. ... If he did not prefer the Jets, Tony would have most likely been banished for killing Bernardo, just ...
I love all my friends, I would do anything for them, and I know that they would do the same. ... We have, in this life, many friends, many lovers, but only one true love: one person that completes us, that we are meant for, and that is the one relationship that everyone needs: someone to love and be loved by. ... And when I die, whether I am thirty or eighty-five, I will die complete, knowing that I loved and was loved. ... I"m charmed by what I see, but could I tolerate the well-traveled road to get there? ... Is this the love I dream about? ...
Her belief that women, such as herself, deserve respect and the ability to think for themselves is a concept that I agree with completely; as a reader, I wish that I myself could exemplify these traits. ... Her individuality, courage, independence, and rejection of gender stereotypes have made Lady Macbeth an honorable and sympathetic villain in my eyes. I hope that as I mold my own personality, I can take on these traits that Lady Macbeth so wonderfully exemplifies, and in turn make them my own. I only hope that I can, in courage become and stay an individual, and in this hope become an...
In my study I will compare the language of Romeo and Juliet in this famous scene. ... By observing the language Romeo and Juliet use, I find Juliet is more practical. ... I am afeard, Being in night, all this is but a dream." Romeo is afraid that since it is night his romantic meeting with Juliet may be a dream, too pleasing sweet to be true. ... "Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest." ...
In the song, Wendla said "And who can say what dream are?..."(Sater 64) and in the play, one of the characters said, "We are such stuff, As dream are made on". ... Wendla's lack of shame revealed that if she had knew how babies were made, she would have known what were the consequences of having sex. ... The patriarchal force was so strong that no one could have interposed. ... Is it normal that in 2013 we still have taboo on sexuality, suicide and homosexuality?...
