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A 5 page essay that discusses the roles and characterizations of the fathers who are featured in two of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer's Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew. This examination shows that Shakespeare was more inclined to show the father in The Taming of the Shrew. Baptista, in a more favorable light then the father in Midsummer Night's Dream Egeus. No additional sources listed.
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in the way that each role affects the progress of their particular play. Also, an examination of these two fathers shows that Shakespeare was more inclined to show the father
in The Taming of the Shrew. Baptista, in a more favorable light then the father in Midsummer Nights Dream Egeus. Furthermore, Baptistas role plays a more integral part in the
action of the play. Egeus, in Midsummer Nights Dream, is the father of Hermia, one of the lovers who spend an enchanted night in the forest. He is the
stereotypical disgruntled Elizabethan father who appeals to the local ruler, Theseus, because his daughter has dare to fall in love with a man other then the one her father has
chosen for her. The first words that are heard from him establish his character as narrow-minded and cold-hearted. He tells Theseus that his heart is "full of vexation" and wishes
to make a complaint against his child, Hermia, because his daughter is unwilling to fulfill the marriage contract that he has made with Demetrius. Egeus goes on to
accuse Lysander, the man whom Hermia loves, of "bewitching" her by singing to her in the moonlight, and writing love poems. Obviously, Egeus has no patience with such tokens of
love and regards them as intrusions between his will and his daughters future. He says that Lysander has Turnd her obedience, which is due to me, / To stubborn harshness"
(Midsummer Nights Dream). This father is so entrenched in his societys patriarchal attitudes that he pleads with the Duke Theseus to support his "ancient privilege of Athens / As
she is mine, I may dispose of her" (Midsummer Nights Dream). Egeus goes on to say that he would rather see her dead, "according to our law" then married against
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