Midsummer nights dream acts 4-5

Shakespeare loves to use gender roles to add comedy for his plays for example in the midsummer nights dream he uses the fey queen as the overhand in a relationship in order to cause chaos Tatiana holds a servant boy over kind Oberon's head in order to get what she wants. and the father of Helena is supposed to be able to tell his daughter what to do but yet he has no power over her heart and she runs away to elope with her beloved lysander
in the end puck explanes that this play and its chaos will be remembered as but only a dream inorder for things to stay civil between the humans.

i am suposed to inbed a song but i have no idea how on earth to do so i shall try again later

Shakespeare Midsummer Nights Dream Acts 1-3

Theseus the duke of Athens and Hippolyta the queen of the amazons discuss their upcoming wedding with Favor and excitement. When Egeus the father of Hermia comes to the duke with a complaint, his daughter is promised to Demetrius whom loves her. While Hermias heart belongs to Lysander. Theseus demands the law be upheld if Hermia does not comply too her father’s wishes she goes to a nunnery or is put to death. Lysander Proposes that they run away to his aunts home seven leagues from Athens, and Helana confesses to Hermia that she is jealous of Demetrius love for her. Helana tells Demetrius of the plan to elope in hopes to win his love. Demetrius runs after them, thus is how they end up in the forest.
A group of theater men band together to discuss a play they plan to put on after Theseus wedding. They find a spot in the forest that is good to rehearse the play about two tragic lovers. They quarl some about parts and a man by the last name bottom wants to play every part. In the midst of arguing they are frightened by a bear and all run away. Bottom falls asleep in a random spot and everyone assumes he has been eaten by the bear.

Two fairies in the forest are mad about the possession of a servant the queen fairy Tatiana refuses to give him to the king Oberon. Oberon vows to get revenge by making her fall in love with an idiotic object with the juice of a flower. He sends his servant Pluck to go get the flower.
The humans fall asleep in a grove and Pluck decides to play a prank on them and messes up the love triangle. Oberon gets his revenge and Tatiana falls in love with Bottom whom now has the head of an ass. And the fairies have a great laugh. Oberon finds out about the mishap with the humans and sends Pluck to fix it.




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shakespeare

who is this infamous shakespeare?

its believed that he was born in the family home on Henley Street, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England
he married Anne Hathaway who was eight years older than him and a farmers daughter.
he uses the form of verse and prose in his works he began working at a london theater company and later worked for Pembroke’s Men under elizabeths reign which later became chamberlans man under james




sources
http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/william-shakespeare-born.htm
http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/shakespeare-biography
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Four Last Songs

What is a song cycle? a song cycle is a group of songs that the composer made specifically relevant to one another
In the song cycle by Richard Strauss Four Last Songs the overall theme throughout the four poems is the cycle of life and death and how after every death there is hope for life “”two larks soar alone “ the larks symbolize the path that we walk and the life we all live but it is also a bird of mourning I feel like this dude was severely depressed and doesn’t know how to see the light in life. The lark sings at the end of the day and he asks the question “is this perchance death?” I feel like this is not exactly hinting at the fact that they are dying but that the night symbolized the illusion of death to that particular day so that its not death to life its death to the day so that there may be a birth to a new morning . I don’t feel like the question makes anything more powerful just more symbolic.