Midsummer+night's+dream

"And then the moon, like to a silver bow, New bent in heaven shall behold the night" "Four happy days bring in another moon" "Take time to pause, and by the next moon- The sealing betwixt my love and me" "Thou hast moonlight at her window sung" "Chanting faint hyms to the cold fruitless moon" "Tomorrow nigh, when Phoebe doth behold, her silver visage in the watery grass,Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass." "From lovers' food, till morrow deep midinight" "And meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by the moonlight"
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Act I, Scene 1 1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus?
 * Hippolyta tells him the four days will go by very fast, but he thinks they will go by really slow.**

2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do?
 * He wants Thesus to make hermia want to marry demitrious, Egeus wants the right to kill her if she doesnt.**

3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia? **Woman belong to their husband/father, and they tell them what they can do, and Thesus gives Hermia three options, death, marry demitrious or live in a nunnery**

4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things?
 * It proves that he can't stick to his choices**

5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena?
 * I think they told her so she would be able to go after demitrous.**

6. Even though Helena loves Demetrius and is Hermia’s best friend, why does she decide to tell Demetrius of Hermia and Lysander’s plans?
 * she thinks in some messsed up way, this will make demitrious fall in love with her again.**

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7. Identify Hermia’s basic dilemma. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus and her father? What other choice does Lysander suggest? ===== \Act I, Scene 2
 * She loves Lysander but shes not allowed to marry him, and her choices are marry demitrous or die, but then lysander says they shoulkd run away.**

8. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts?
 * He thinks he is the best actor.**

9. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene?
 * it's funny because bottom wants to play all the parts, and i think he included it because it adds some humor to the whole pllay.**

10. Where are the actors to meet the following night? Who else is meeting there at the same time?
 * Their all meeting in the forest, when lysander and hermia are meeting and demitrous and helena are following.**

11. How would you describe Bottom’s acting ability? What is Bottom’s own opinion of his acting ability?
 * Well, hes not that good but he has alot of confidence and thinks hes the best. **

Act II, Scene 1

10. What does the reader find out about the current relationship between Oberon, King of the Fairies, and Titania, Queen of the Fairies, from Puck and the first fairy? **you learn that Oberon and Titania are married but whenever their together they fight alot, and they never really get along.**

11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens?
 * they both accuse each other of having prior relationships with Hippolyta and Theseus, and they've to go to their wedding.**

12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans?
 * When they fight it literilly messes everything up, theres storms and famines, floods anddroughts and a ton of bad things**

13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon?
 * Because her friend died and she promised her she would take care of her kid.**

14. What does Oberon send Puck to find?
 * The flowers hit by cupids arrow.**

15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania?
 * he going to put the flower juice in her eyes so she wakes up and falls in love with a vile creature**.

16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse?
 * She really doesn't care at all and just keeps persuing him**.

17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse?
 * She says when she sees his eyes she sees the world so shes safe.**
 * 18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women?**
 * Women are supposed to be persured not do the persuing**

19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena?
 * Too put the flower juice on his eyes.**

Act II, Scene 2

20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing?
 * He wats her to fall in love with some thing because he wanted the little kid, and wanted to get back at her for not giving it to him.**

21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her?
 * They're not married yet.**

22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes?
 * He thinks he's Demitrous**


 * 2**3. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens
 * She thinks hes playing a joke on her**

24. How is Hermia’s dream a reflection of reality?
 * The serpent eating her heart represents Lysander breaking it.**

Act III, Scene 1

25. How are the actors going to keep from scaring the ladies when Pyramus kills himself or when the lion roars?
 * They are making a prolouge to warn everybody. and they made it so you can see the lions face.**

26. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight and the wall?
 * They left a window open so the moonlight can shine through, and they made a man stand up there pretending to be a wall.**

27. Why do the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears?
 * They are frightend by him because hes got a donkey head.**

28. What does Puck plan to do when he follows after the other actors?
 * He plans to lead bottom to titania so she will fall in love with him.**

29. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies?
 * He doesn't think there is any reason for titana to love him but hes okay with it because the faries are getting him everything he wants.**

30. Bottom says, "…reason and love keep little company together nowadays." Why is this such an apt statement at this point in the play?
 * Because, all the people who love each other are mixed up .**

Act III, Scene 2 31. What does Hermia accuse Demetrius of doing?
 * Killing Lysander.**

32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake?
 * They are going to put the love juice on demitrouses eyes**

33. Why is Helena upset when Demetrius says he loves her? Isn’t this what she had wanted all along?
 * she's upset because she thinks he's playing a joke on her.**

34. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia?
 * joining in on the mockery of her.**

35. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past?
 * They were like sisters**

36. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why can’t she believe what he says?
 * He tells her he hates her and she's a dwarf, but he loved her like 2 hours before that so she's really confused.**

37. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena?
 * stealing Lysander's love for her.**

38. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia?
 * Because she is good at fighting. and shes really angry.**

39. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to do?
 * Fight for Helena's love.**

40. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men?
 * To lead them around then make them fall asleep**

41. What is Oberon going to do about Titania?
 * He is going to stop her loving Bottom.**

42. Why doesn’t Oberon fear the coming of day?
 * He doesn't fear it because he doesn't have anything to fear.**

43. How well does Puck’s trickery work? ==== **Review Question: The climax, or turning point, of //A Midsummer Night’s Dream// comes at the end of Act 3. In point form describe the major plot points of Act Three starting from when Titania falls in love with Bottom leading to the climax or turning point of the play near the end of act three.** ==== -The actors go to the forest -puck turns bottom into a donkey head - Titania wakes up and falls in love with bottom - Hermia thinks Demetrius killed Lysander - Oberon realizes puck messed up. -Oberon puts the juice on Demetriuses eyes - Both lysander and Demetrius love helena - Helena thinks its a cruel joke - Hermia gets mad and says helena stole lysanders love -Hermia and helena fight - Demeitus and Lysander go tofind helena and fight for her - puck confuses them and makes them fall asleep Puck puts the juice on Lysanders eyes.
 * It works exactly how he wanted it.**

Act IV, Scene 1

44. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies?
 * He is used to it and he is making the faries get everything he wants**

45. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom?
 * He gets kinda jealous since his wife has fallen in love with someone else.**

46. What sort of explanation will Oberon make to Titania’s question about what happened to her?
 * He doesn't give her an explaniton he just keeps avoiding the questionn**

47. Why are Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus , and the others out in the woods so early in the morning?
 * They are all out hunting.**

48. What is Theseus’s first explanation of why the young people are asleep in the woods?
 * To see the ceremony.**

49. What explanation does Demetrius make? Why does he compare his love for Hermia to an illness?
 * That his love to hermia is gone and he loves Helena, because he was showing that he was cured and now he loves helena.**

50. What is Theseus’s decision concerning the four young people?
 * That they should all be married together!**

51. Why can’t the young people be sure whether they are awake or dreaming?
 * Because if it was a dream they all had the same one and it was vivid**

52. Bottom believes he too has had a dream. How is he going to use that to entertain the Duke?
 * He is getting quince to make it into a ballad.**

Act IV, Scene 2

53. What opinion do the other artisans now have of Bottom since they think he is lost?
 * they now think he is such a great actor.**

54. What do they most regret losing by not being able to perform the play?
 * All the money they were gonig to make**

55. Why must the artisans hurry to the Duke’s palace?
 * Because the ceremony part is about to start.**

Extending the thought process.
==== a) The fourth act opens and ends with Bottom at center stage. What is your opinion of Bottom’s character? How might he be the antithesis, or opposite, of Theseus’s character? **He seems really arrogant to me and he really just wants to be important, I think he is theseus's oppisite because he alawys puts himself first whle Teseus puts others first.** ====

==== b) How do most of the dreamers respond to the dream experience upon waking? Which character is changed permanently by the dream experience? **they don't really know what's going on but they think it might not be a dream because they all saw the same things, Demitrous was changed permantly this because he now loves Helena instead of hermia.** ====

==== c) In this act, several characters look back at prior infatuations with disbelief. What do you think Shakespeare is saying about love and infatuation? ====

== Act 4 Podcast: Bottom decides to commission Peter Quince to write a ballad called “Bottom’s Dream.” On your own or with a partner, imagine that you have been asked to write the lyrics and compose the musical accompaniment. Remember that at the beginning of act 4, Bottom told the fairies that he likes to listen to the “tongs and bones” (act 4, scene 1, line 30). Tongs were pieces of metal struck against each other and bones were actual bones. These instruments were used in comical or in less sophisticated musical performances. Write the poetry for the ballad ( a minimum of 2 stanzas, 4 lines each), then put it to music! ==

Act V 56. Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people?
 * He doesn't want his wedding day to be sad**

57. Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisby rather than the other entertainments?
 * he wants to give thm a chance to be famous.**

58. Why does Philostrate try to keep Theseus from seeing the play? What does he say is wrong with it?
 * He thinks it is bad and the actors are not very good. and he says it isn dramatic it is funny, but tedious**

59. What does Theseus mean by the lines, "For never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it"?
 * He means that he should give them a chance.**

60. What is accomplished by having the Prologue tell the whole story that the actors are then going to enact?
 * Well it helps the people not get afraid i guess, but it kinda ruins tyhe play because now you know how everything is going to happen.**

61. How does Shakespeare use comments from the audience to enhance the humour of the play that they are watching?
 * He has them comment on everything that goes wrong and poke at their acting skills.**

62. What is Hippolyta’s reaction to the play?
 * She laughs at it at first but by the end she starts crying and get emotional.**

63. In what way is Thisby’s final speech humorous?
 * Because the play was sooo bad at funny, then he/she gets all serious and emotional.**

64. What does Oberon tell the fairies to do?
 * Sing and bless the place.**

65. What is the purpose of Puck’s final speech?
 * too clean everything up and apoligse for his mistakes**

Extending the thought process:

FInd at least one example of each of the following that occurs during the play within the play. Write down the quote that illustrates example. excessive alliteration - **graicous golden glittering gleams**  breaking the play’s illusion of reality - **When bottom speaks out to the audience 'No, in truth sir he should not "decieving me" is thisbes que...."**  using the wrong word or name - **When bottom mixes up the gods "not shalfalus to procus"**  repeating a word excessively "O night O night, alack Alack alack"  ridiculous metaphor "

===a) In reading the play-within-a-play, we become the audience for the drama played out by Theseus, Hippolyta, and the others. These performers, in turn, form the audience for the reenactment of Pyramus and Thisbe. How does observing another audience help you understand the relationship between audience and performers?===

===b) Modern television shows often create comic effects by having a silly, innocent, or “clueless” character and a sarcastic, knowing, clever character play off of each other. What examples can you think of?===
 * Two and a half men**
 * Subergtaory**
 * Phineas and ferb**

===c) Identify ways in which Pyramus and Thisbe might be unsuitable for a wedding celebration. Are there any ways in which the play might be appropriate? In what ways is the play-within-a-play an ironic commentary on what the two pairs of young lovers (Demetrius and Helena, Lysander and Hermia) have gone through earlier?=== Its all about lovers getting mixed up through mis- communtication, which is exactly what happened to all the lovers, so its sorta unsuitable because it reminds them all of what just happened