ENGL 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thesis Statement, Term Paper, Cupid
15 Feb 2016
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10. quotes: need to show that you"re working with the text. Not just the quote, for example if you end your paragraph with a quote that"s probably not a good sign. 11. once you"re done writing the whole thing, read your introduction and your conclusion together; they should be the same thing. Pyramus and thisby: their parents won"t let them be together (young love kept apart by parents or egeus in this case) so they run off to the woods. The ending is tragic (the lion chases thisby, pyramus finds the bloodied shawl, kills himself, thisby comes back, kills herself). Myrtle flower turns purple: like in midsummer and also what adonis turns into at the end of venus and adonis. Another myth that influenced shakespeare: the golden ass. English mythology of fairies: in english tradition, fairies are scary, for example they steal babies or ruin the crops. In shakespeare"s fairies they are benevolent and charitable (for example titania takes in the.
