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- Write out topic. The role of women. How women have power

- Thesis Statement (Your answer to the questions)? Shakespeare portrays women as equal human beings with lots of power.

- Paragraph two - Point number 1 Hyppolyta is very authoritive and powerful. -supporting evidence/quote: Hyppolyta convinces Theseus that the days would pass quickly, proving that she has some control over him. -supporting evidence /quote: Hyppolyta is the queen of amazons, a position of great authority. -supporting evidence /quote: Hyppolyta, by her speech, can be interperated to having lots of power. "I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, when in a wood of Crete they bayed a bear..."

- Paragraph Three- Point number 2 Titania, similar to Hyppolyta, has a position of great power. -supporting evidence /quote: Titania has control over many creatures, including fairies and pixies, as she is the queen of fairies. -supporting evidence /quote: Titania has enough power to resist Oberon's demands of handing over the changeling. -supporting evidence /quote: Titania has enough power to make fairies tend to Bottom's whim, however un-freindly the task.

- Paragraph Four - Point number 3 Hermia has authority in certain situations. -supporting evidence /quote: She makes Lysander sleep away from her to keep her "modesty." -supporting evidence /quote: She manages to resist Egeus and Theseus' ruling over whom she should marry. -supporting evidence /quote: She is quite indapendent, when she is lost in the woods, and Lysander ahs abandonned her, she manages to find her way back to someone else.

- Conclusion restatement of thesis in a new and concluding manner. Women in the Shapespearean play; "A Midsummer Night's Dream," have many positions of power.