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Quote: "This old moon wanes! She lingers my desire, like to a step dame or a dowager"
Technique: Simile
This scene states that Theseus can't wait to marry Hippolyta. It teaches us that love is important and no matter how old this play was, love will last forever and there will be no limit.

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What say you, Hermia? Be advised, fair maid.
To you, your father should be a god,
one that composed your beauties, yea and one,
To whom you are but as a form in wax,
By him imprinted, and within his power,
To leave the figure, or disfigure it.
Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.

Simile : comparing Egeus to a god.
Theseus is comparing Egeus to a god because Egeus made Hermia from his beauty and his wife's beauty and is comparing Hermia to a mould because once she disobeys her fatehr, she will destroy her and her father's relationship forever.

1. Studying Shakespeare is still important today in our society because women in those days didn't have rights and had no say to their opinion. But now in our society, women are now allowed to speak up about how they feel about something.

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"She was a vixen when she went to school.
And though she be but little, she is fierce."

This shows how even the strongest friendships can be broken. It also shows how Helena is saying Hermia is a vixen.
A vixen is a fox and foxes are known for being sly and cunning.

It is important to study shakespear as we can refer back and see how the problems of today and centuries ago are oddly similar, it also shows ways we deal with different situations, whether it be by violence or words, they are worked out the same way we do now.

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Jealousy is shown in the play mostly when

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'The course of love never did run smooth.' - LYSANDER (Act 1, Scene 5, Line 134)

This proverb explains to us that even at the most precious moments in romance or your love life, unexpected issues may arise. But even so, we require a balance of conflict and happiness in order to maintain our differentiation between the two.

In America, one divorce literally occurs every 30-36 seconds, since 'the course of love never did run smooth.' In Australia, the same happens. (But obviously not every 30 seconds, because the population is a lot less.)

And so this theme is relevant and relatable as we do still experience issues in even the closest of relationships. We still gain enemies, and destroy good relationships. But Shakespeare here is trying to emphasise the fact that we can sometimes feel sorrow and happiness at the same time, and that's normal for humans. Not everything is perfect. It is almost as if he is dramstising at this point.

The importance of this theme and Shakespeare's overall works are so that we may learn of something new continuously. Learning Shakespeare works and studying theme can help us to make comparisions between the now and then, and helping us to gain a better understanding of the complicated English language, so that our skills may too become more advanced. So that we may too think the way the brilliant Shakespeare does.

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Studying Shakespear is important in today's society as we should know how people used to live, how plays were made, written and said, as well as how times have changed in this period overtime.

Violence is a scene in this play. An example of it is when Helena and Hermia are fighting in the mud.
'Get You gone, you dwarf,
you minimus of hindering knotgrass made,
you bead, you acorn'.

This scene creates hatred between Helena and Hermia and teaches us to not take out everything on someone who you're not even sure did the wrong thing or is the reason of the problem.
Even today, we shouldn't blame others for things they may not have even done.

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Studying Shakespeare is important in today's society because he always includes themes such as love jealousy etc and usually these themes are relatable to the viewers

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Quote : "this old moon wanes! She lingers my desire,like to a step dame or a dowager."
Studying Shakespeare is important because it's saying how we love takes and we should wait.
Technique: Simile

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'She was a fixen when we went to school. And although she be little, she is fierce.' (Simile)
This quote relates to friendship because it says 'When WE went to school' because itbsaus we it means more than one person which means Helena and Hermia so they have obviously been best friends for a while

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A friendship can only get stronger if the people in the relationship are honest, caring and loving. Helena-"Good Hermia, do not be bitter with me". Hermia-" You juggler! you canker-blossom!. Helena and Hermia are fighting because they have both forgotten what's most important to them.

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Quote: "Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me. I evermore did love you, Hermia." - Helena

It is essential to study Shakespeare in our time because it allows us to know about the different styles of literature that were present in the past, and how they impacted the audience. At the time, Shakespeare was popular in theatres, so his message would be spread through large crowds of people. It is important to study Shakespeare because we want to know what it was like during his time, and how we've developed since then. Not only that, but his pieces are incredibly entertaining and creative.

Shakespeare is relevant to today's society due to the fact that he is trying to convey the message that even the strongest of friendships can go awry with the help of trickery, jealousy and misunderstandings. It is trying to create an exaggerated situation where the reader is forced to comprehend how drastic things can become in a short amount of time. He includes themes that will be relevant in all generations, whether it be past, present or future. It makes sure that the message he is trying to advertise is engrained into our minds.

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I think that studying shakespeare is important in today's society as it tells us of the people in that time and how they lived.

Reading Shakespeare's plays teaches us many lessons one of which plays a major role in modern day society, love. Love is a very big theme in A Midsummer Nights Dream as many characters are in love, eg. Theseus and Hippolyta, "This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, like to a step-dame or a dowager" ~ Theseus.

Shakespeare's plays are relevant in the sense that he tries to convey a message through every theme.

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Characters relating to Rights of Women are Theseus, Egeus and Hermia.

Quote: "Either to die the death, or to abjure

For ever the society of men"

Studying Shakespear is still relevant and important today as it shows how women had no right to make their own decision and that they were forced to agree to decisions made by others.

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Quote - you juggler! You canker-blossom! you thief of love!
This shows that sometimes love can cause violence and hardships between some friendships

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Theme: Love
Quote: 'Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in

another moon.' (Theseus and Hippotyla)

It teaches us about what happens in the play can also happen right now today. The way the characters fight over men/women is the same as it is today.

Why is studying Shakespeare important in today's society?
Shakespear is important in today's society because it shows how women had no say but they had to listen/do other people's decisions.

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Shakespheare is important because he has made a significant contribution to the English literature through his work. His work provides insight of culture and society around those times. In the theme I choose, Shakespheare elaborated on how love can hurt and cause violence to one another. He shows how Hermia and Helena violently fight over love for a man.
Quote - Act 3, Scene 1. 'Mine ears is much enamoured of thy note, so is mine eye enthralled to thy shape.' This is personification.

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Theme- Athenian law
Quote- " if you yield not to your fathers choice, you can endure the livery of a nun"
The film teaches us about how women had no rights back in those days  and how today in other countries women still do not have rights.

The quote that I have chosen shows how women had such sad and horrible choices and how they didn't have a right to choose who they want to marry.

The characters my theme relates to are Hermia because she was the women who didn't have a right to choose her love, egeus because he was choosing who hermia was going to marry and Theseus was the one who have hermia the 3 options.

Studying Shakespeare is important into today's society because it shows the world how women were treated and why we should respect them.
In my opinion studying shakespere is very important because it addresses issues and struggles in people's life.

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" Your Father should be as a God" Act 1 scene 2 ( Simile
" Either to die the death, or to abjure for ever the society of men" Act 1 scene 2

Shakespeare is still relevant and important in our society because it outlines themes such a violence, love, jealousy, friendship,women's rights and so on. Still in this present moment, people use violence to solve problems. Referring to Women's rights, Women still now a days don't get a say. It has improved slightly but Men still control most. Women's rights in this play refers mostly to Hermia as she wants to be with Lysander while her Father wants her to be with Demetrius. She doesn't get say.

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She was a vixen when she went to school. And though she be little, she is fierce.
This line was said by Helena to Hermia, this shows us how even  between friendships there can be jealousy.

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Shakespeare is important in today's society because men still feel like they can control women and tell them what to do, when they can't. In Shakespeare, Egeus (Hermia's father) wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, but she loves Lysander. Some fathers in reality still tell their daughters who they can marry and who they can't.

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In this play magic is important because it starts off the whole problem in the play.Some Main Characters are Puck,Oberon,and Titania.Theses are the main characters that relate to magic because they have the magic that starts of the whole play.A quote from this is "Here,Puck will use his magic to circle the earth in forty minutes to retrieve the magic love flower for Oberon" This quote is very important because it starts of all the problems in the play.

In these days studying Shakespeare's is important because it helps us learn about literary techniques in our time and in the time it was written.
One of the lessons it teach us is that love is more powerful and that you should never give up on love which is still extremely relevant these days.Another important lesson is that you need to never give up even if you hit an obstacle which is demonstrated alot  in the play and it is still very relavent these days.

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Theseus: "Now fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in

another moon. But O, methinks, how slow

This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires,

Like to a step-dame or a dowager,

Long withering out a young man’s revenue"
This quote states that Theseus cant wait to marry Hippolyta and he is comparing the moon to a stepdame or dowager that didn't give the man his inheritance. He is also saying the moon is going to slow and is stopping them from getting married.

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Shakespeare is still important as he still teaches us the value of friendship and never to let something or someone come between you.

This is still relevant in today society as many people just fall in love without caring about others and they become jealous

Act 3 scene 2
"What, have you come by night and stol'n my loves heart from him?" Hermia to helana