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Essay Instructions: In at least three long paragraphs, compare and contrast the three different stories in “A Midsummer Nights Dream”: one is set in the city, another in the woods, yet another takes the form of a play-within-the-play. Explicate how the three stories structure the comedy by playing off each other.

In as many paragraphs as needed, identify the characters involved in physical affairs—love affairs, lust affairs, marital affairs. What couples are together at the start of the play; which couples form between the beginning and end of the play; which couples finish the play together? Who breaks up and pursues other characters? Which characters play match-maker by endeavoring to create couples? How does Shakespeare use sexual affairs to create comedy?

Within your favorite act of the play, paraphrase four pages from the story into at least one hundred of your own words. Why is it your favorite? How does your selection tie into the whole plot of the play? Identify the general plot and themes Shakespeare utilizes to deliver his overall central ideas.

Essay Instructions: Essay on A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare. How is patriachry used in the play (how the women were ruled by the men in the play). No outide sources needed. About 6 quotations from the book are needed.

Essay Instructions: I require a second year A level(A2)English Literature coursework essay to a grade A standard. I am studying in year/grade 13 in UK, so the essay should be of good standard.

My question title is:
"Compare how the writers use allegory to portray society in Lewis Carrolls 'Alice in Wonderland' and Shakespeares 'A Midsummer Nights Dream'"


The focus of the the essay is to compare and contrast what the wtiters show about society through the use of allegory between the two main books of Alice in Wonderland and A Midsummer Nights Dream. The two main books are Alice in Wonderland and A Midsummer Nights Dream, but you should reference a few other books when making a point if relevent. The question concerns society so should mention context of time.
Avoid talking about Marxism and Feminism!

The mark scheme is as follows:
Use appropriate critical vocabulary and technically fluent style/well structered and coherent argument.
Always relevant with very sharp focus on task and confidently ranging around texts
Explorate and analyse key features of form and structure with perceptive evaluation of how they shape meanings.
Explorate and analyse language with perceptive evaluation of how they shape meanings.
Detailed and perceptive undertsanding of issues raised in connecting texts.
perceptive considerataion of different interpretations of texts with sharp evaluation of their strenghts and weaknesses and with excellent selection of supportive references.
Excellent understanding of contexts of reception with detailed links between context/text/task.
Excellent understanding of possible contexts of production with detailed links between contexts/text/task.