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English, 11.07.2019 18:50, caliharris123

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. theseus: what say you, hermia? be advised fair maid: to you your father should be as a god; one that composed your beauties, yea, and one to whom you are but as a form in wax by him imprinted and within his power to leave the figure or disfigure it. demetrius is a worthy gentleman. in this excerpt from a midsummer night’s dream, theseus suggests that hermia should obey her father is the daughter of a god is very similar to her father should create a life for herself

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