“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”:

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Term Paper Title	“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”:
# of Words	321
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.28

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”:
     I think something very interesting in this play is the way in which woman were seen in Elizabethan England during Shakespeare’s day.  The play gives numerous examples of the way woman are treated as second class citizens;  for instance, the laws concerning marriage and  the position of men in society.
     When Hermia states that she does not want to marry Demetrius, the man of her fathers choice, and would rather marry Lysander, she is placed in a difficult position.  Her father seeks out the aid of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, who states the law and what she can do in such a situation:  marry who her father says, become a nun, or die.  All three of these “choices” involved sterility either emotional, sexual, or absolute, respectively.  These don’t really sound like choices to me, nor do they sound like choices to Hermia.  Woman, especially daughters, were to do what men commanded.
     Another exampl...

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