A Midsummer Night's Dream
<div class="IPBDescription">How to get 3-4 pages on "Hermia's Love"</div> Ok, heres the story, I have an essay due for my English 102 class. Its a 3-4 page essay on "Hermia's opinion of love." The problem is I have no idea how I am going to get 3-4 pages on that topic. Now anyone who has ever read this story input would be nice. For everyone else, do any of you folks have some tricks you use to write BS or anything? Any way you know how to make a paragraph out of like 2 sentences? Or a page out of a paragraph?
I've just wrote down a few basic things about the story in sloppy order just to get a basis down on what I have on my hands. If you care to know I'll post it here. THERE IS NO STRUCTING OR ANYTHING TO THIS RIGHT NOW! PLEASE DO NOT SPAM ABOUT THE OBVIOUS, I WILL FIX IT LATER. I just need to figure out how to fill 3 pages.
The character and theme I chose for this assignment is Helena and love. There are quite a few examples showing Helena’s opinion of love. One of her opinions is that
Helena describes her jealousy of Hermia’s looks because she wants to look like Hermia. She talks about how she wishes looks could be a sickness so that she would look like Hermia. She thinks herself ugly because she is not what Demetrius is looking for. Helena wants to be looked upon by Demetrius the way he looks upon Hermia. She thinks that all Demetrius’ love is love of Hermia’s looks. Helena wants Demetrius’ love so much she goes to sacrifice her friendship of Lysander and Hermia by telling Demetrius of their plan to escape so that she could follow Demetrius into the wood in hope the for her information that he will have thanks for her and love her. She believes that looking good in his eyes will make him love her, with no basis of reasoning that he should like her for it.
Demetrius tells Helena that he does not love her, Helena tells him that when he tries to push her away it just makes her love him more; she refers to herself as a spaniel. A dog that will fawn upon him the more he beats it, a loving pet. She just wants to be used as his tool, his spaniel. She thinks that he will like a woman who obeys orders. She thinks that he will like or and love her if she shows herself as a dog, a slave to be used by him however he wishes.
He says that he is sick when he looks upon her and she says that she is sick when she doesn’t look upon him, she loves him enough to feel awful when not in his company, she needs him that much. Demetrius wants to get away from her, doesn’t want to love her enough that he says he will run away into the thickets to escape her and leave her to the wild beasts. She threatens to chase him down if he should try to leave her in the woods. Demetrius threatens to do Helena mischief in the woods and she wants him to do it, she is at the point to do anything to get close to Demetrius. She begs him to stop running away from her, but he refuses and leaves her there alone. Helena sees Lysander on the ground and shakes him awake, unwittingly becoming the first woman he sees when he opens his eyes. Lysander immediately falls in love with Helena, and tells her that he deeply loves her. She thinks it is a cruel joke and tells him to stop abusing her. She thinks that everyone is bent on making her look bad.
Helena believes that Lysander is only mocking her with his words of love, and tells him that his phrases have no substance. Inadvertently she wakes up Demetrius, he sees her and also falls in love with Helena, saying, “O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!” (3.2.137). Helena thinks everyone decided to attack her and is just making fun of her for their own fun. She tells them its wrong to make fun of ones love, that she knows they both love Hermia and are just trying “To conjure tears up in a poor maids eyes with your derision!”(3.2.158) Hermia arrives, she is shocked by Lysander's words and does not believe that he could possibly love Helena, so Helena assumes that Hermia is part of the mockery, and chastises her for violating a friendship which they have had since childhood. Demetrius and Lysander begin to quarrel over Helena.
I've just wrote down a few basic things about the story in sloppy order just to get a basis down on what I have on my hands. If you care to know I'll post it here. THERE IS NO STRUCTING OR ANYTHING TO THIS RIGHT NOW! PLEASE DO NOT SPAM ABOUT THE OBVIOUS, I WILL FIX IT LATER. I just need to figure out how to fill 3 pages.
The character and theme I chose for this assignment is Helena and love. There are quite a few examples showing Helena’s opinion of love. One of her opinions is that
Helena describes her jealousy of Hermia’s looks because she wants to look like Hermia. She talks about how she wishes looks could be a sickness so that she would look like Hermia. She thinks herself ugly because she is not what Demetrius is looking for. Helena wants to be looked upon by Demetrius the way he looks upon Hermia. She thinks that all Demetrius’ love is love of Hermia’s looks. Helena wants Demetrius’ love so much she goes to sacrifice her friendship of Lysander and Hermia by telling Demetrius of their plan to escape so that she could follow Demetrius into the wood in hope the for her information that he will have thanks for her and love her. She believes that looking good in his eyes will make him love her, with no basis of reasoning that he should like her for it.
Demetrius tells Helena that he does not love her, Helena tells him that when he tries to push her away it just makes her love him more; she refers to herself as a spaniel. A dog that will fawn upon him the more he beats it, a loving pet. She just wants to be used as his tool, his spaniel. She thinks that he will like a woman who obeys orders. She thinks that he will like or and love her if she shows herself as a dog, a slave to be used by him however he wishes.
He says that he is sick when he looks upon her and she says that she is sick when she doesn’t look upon him, she loves him enough to feel awful when not in his company, she needs him that much. Demetrius wants to get away from her, doesn’t want to love her enough that he says he will run away into the thickets to escape her and leave her to the wild beasts. She threatens to chase him down if he should try to leave her in the woods. Demetrius threatens to do Helena mischief in the woods and she wants him to do it, she is at the point to do anything to get close to Demetrius. She begs him to stop running away from her, but he refuses and leaves her there alone. Helena sees Lysander on the ground and shakes him awake, unwittingly becoming the first woman he sees when he opens his eyes. Lysander immediately falls in love with Helena, and tells her that he deeply loves her. She thinks it is a cruel joke and tells him to stop abusing her. She thinks that everyone is bent on making her look bad.
Helena believes that Lysander is only mocking her with his words of love, and tells him that his phrases have no substance. Inadvertently she wakes up Demetrius, he sees her and also falls in love with Helena, saying, “O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!” (3.2.137). Helena thinks everyone decided to attack her and is just making fun of her for their own fun. She tells them its wrong to make fun of ones love, that she knows they both love Hermia and are just trying “To conjure tears up in a poor maids eyes with your derision!”(3.2.158) Hermia arrives, she is shocked by Lysander's words and does not believe that he could possibly love Helena, so Helena assumes that Hermia is part of the mockery, and chastises her for violating a friendship which they have had since childhood. Demetrius and Lysander begin to quarrel over Helena.
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Something that may help is to pretend you have an inquisitive two year old next to you as you write, asking "Why" after every sentence, or in the case of compound sentences, multiple times per sentence. Now, answer that question every time. While you do this, maintain proper paragraph structure and sentence structure...
So called "Jam writting" can help. That is to say, stream of consciousness writting. Read the story, get really into it, and then just start writting down every thought that pops into your head. Whatever is in the forefront of your mind at that moment. If what you're thinking is "This is so stupid" write that. Just make sure you get to thinking about the thing you need to write about eventually, so you can write about it. Then look back over what you just poured out of your head, pick out topics you might be able to ramble about, and structure them better.
You could even start with what you have right there. Take the first sentence.. yes, just the first sentence you see, and expand it. Act as if you were going to write the entire paper on just that sentence... don't use the same words though. State the meaning, but add detail. Throw in details from the source material. Detail, detail, detail.
Expand you vocabulary. In a pinch, plagurizing the source material works, but only if your vocabulary is large enough that you can rewrite the original without using a single word of the original! State the obvious, state the same obvious thing again, but each time, use different words! The glory of the english language is that we have fifty dozen ways of saying the EXACT SAME THING! Learn to do this! It helps!
<b>Example</b>: The cat sat on the mat. A feline reclined upon a floor covering.
<b>Now adding adjectives for descriptive merit</b>: The adorable kitten curled up on the green fuzzy welcome mat by the front door.
<b>Expanding the scope of your sentence</b>: The pretty little cat, Marcy, strolled leisurely across the kitchen, ignoring the other occupants of the room and heading straight for the coveted spot on the floor that was both soft and in the direct path of sunlight: the green fuzzy welcome mat that she had long since claimed as her own.
The possibilities are endless, really.