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THE ILLUSTRATION OF A VERSE

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HELENA'S SPEECH: THE ILLUSTRATION Lo, she is one of this confederacy! Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three To fashion this false sport, in spite of me. Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid! Have you conspired, have you with these contrived To bait me with this foul derision? Is all the counsel that we two have shared, The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us,-- O, is it all forgot? All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grow together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition; Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the f

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: CHARACTER ASSIGNMENT 2

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LYSANDER FACEBOOK PROFILE PAGE: Lysander is most probably one of the most interesting characters in Shakespeare's play " A Midnight Summer's Dream." Lysander, from the beginning of the play, is the rebel. The reject. The play starts as Egeus, the father to the girl that Lysander loves, Hermia, is complaining to the king about lysander. Egeus wants his daughter to marry Demetrius, but she instead loves Lysander, and Demetrius himself has a girlfriend, Helena, according to Lysander. Lysander and Hermia soon escape into the woods, and are followed by Helena and Demetrius. It is in the woods that a lot happens, and it is where most of the play unfolds. From Lysander being somewhat rejected by Hermia, Helena being rejected by Dmetrius in the harshest way possible, Lysander falling mad in love with Helena thanks to Puck just messing up, the big fight that ensued among the four lovers and finally them waking up in the presence of the king. Lysanderis a very interesting