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Lysander: Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you (Awakes) O Helena, o goddess, nymph, perfect, divineTo what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Lysander: Helen, It is not so. (Enters Hermia) Look, where thy love comes; yonder is…

“Either to die the death, or to abjure/ Forever society of men./ Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires,/ Know of your youth, examine well your blood” (11) Theseus (to Hermia about her choices) “I have a widow aunt, a dowager…

Hippolyta finds the story related by the lovers strange. What is Theseus’s reaction to it? Lovers and madmen’s minds are alike. They run constantly always causing mischief. In terms of a theme in this play, reality verses illusion, what do…

Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a good example of program music because __________. it transforms the ideas of plot and character from Shakespeare’s play into a work of instrumental music The five themes heard in the overture…

‘the tragedy of Coriolanus originates in his intense allegiance to the cult of virtus’ Miller ‘he is no more capable of restraining his fury than is a child in a tantrum’ headlam wells’The tragic struggle of the play is not…

apparition an unexpected appearance; a ghost usurp to seize by power or force brazen shameless, impudent harbinger a forerunner extort to obtain by threats or intimidation auspicious favorable dirge a lament for the dead; a song of grief visage a…

Hamlet prince of Denmark, main character Ghost Hamlet’s deceased father Marcellus, Barnardo, Francisco Hamlet’s guards Cornelius, Voltemand ambassadors to Norway Polonius Councillor of State Laertes, Ophelia son and daughter of Polonius Claudius King of Denmark/Hamlet’s uncle Gertrude Queen/Hamlet’s mother/wife of…

Turbulent (adj.) disorderly, riotous, violent; stormyIt was difficult to sail over the turbulent waters in the middle of a thunderstorm. Affront (n.) an open or intentional insult; a slight; (v.) to insult to one’s face; to face in defiance, confrontThe…

line group of words on a page foot single unit of stressed and unstressed syllables iamb stress is on the 2nd syllable meter number of poetic feet in a line pentameter 5 feet 10 total syllables iambic pentameter line containing…

External conflict External conflict is simply a conflict between two outside forces four types of external conflict: • a struggle against another person• a struggle against society• a struggle against nature• a struggle against fate or destiny Character development Character…