The forest is conceived of as a place of possibility and, particularly in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a place of chaos and emotion, where surprising things can and do happen. ... Note Bottom's final lines as Pyramus: "My soul is in the sky,/Tongue, lose thy light,/Moon, take thy flight.... In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the disguises were produced by magic, lending a fantastical element to the play as the nature of love in all of its complications is exposed.  ... The use and misuse of magic has an important role in A Midsummer Night's Dream. ... The use and misuse o...

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In A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare there are many comedic actions displayed throughout the play. ... Mine ear is so much enamored of thy note, So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape, And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee" (3.1, 139-43) This quote describes how Titania falls in love with Bottom, the ass, as soon as she sees him. ... Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy that relies upon conflict. ...

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Within the Elizabethan comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare masterfully takes two characters of the mortal world, Hippolyta and Theseus, and uses them to illuminate the world of another couple, Titania and Oberon, who occupy the opposite side of the spectrum, a world of disorder, disenchantment, and disillusionment. ... On a last note, Theseus and Hippolyta are regarded throughout the play as being a loving couple, never really displeasing one another. ... On this note, besides the point that Theseus and Hippolyta have conflicting views on the time period between four days the...

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