A+Midsummer+Night's+Dream

Hippolyta's reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass is different from that of Thesus because Theseus can't wait for the 4 days to pass and says they are lingreing his desires. Hippolyta's reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days wil pass is, as she said, "Four nights will quickly dream away the time."
 * Act I, Scene 1**
 * 1. How is Hippolyta�s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus?**

Egeus has brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus because his daughter is refusing to wed the chosen suitor for her, instead wanting to marry her love. Egeus expects Theseus to persuade Helena to marry Demetrius.
 * 2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do?**

The proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus is to obey their husbands/fathers. Theseus's ruling concern Hermia is that she should think about her choices.
 * 3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus�s ruling concerning Hermia?**

Lysander's comment about Demetrius's previous love affair with Helena complicates things because now Lysander is the good guy and Demetrius the bad guy.
 * 4. How does Lysander�s comment about Demetrius�s previous love affair with Helena complicate things?**

Lysander and Hermia plan to elope and go to Lysander's aunt's house after meeting in the palace woods. They tell Helena because they know she's in love with Demetrius, so they let her know that, since they're running away, she has a chance with Demetrius.
 * 5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena?**

Even though Helena loves Demetrius and is Hermia's best friend, she still decide's to tell Demetrius of Hermia and Lysander's plans because she thinks he'll began to like here again.
 * 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?**

Hermia's basic dilemma is that she can't wed her love.The choices outlined by Theseus and her father are either she becomes a nun, dies, or marries Demetrius. The other choice Lysander suggests is that they run away to his aunt's house.
 * 7. Identify Hermia's basic dilemma. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus and her father? What other choice does Lysander suggest? **

Nick Bottom wants to play all the parts because he thinks he will be exceptional in all of them.
 * Act I, Scene 2**
 * 8. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts?**

This scene is funny because a guy has to play a woman's part and Shakespeare is poking fun at that.
 * 9. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene?**

The actors are meeting in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by the moonlight. Lysander and Hermia are also meeting there at the same time.
 * 10. Where are the actors to meet the following night? Who else is meeting there at the same time?**

I would describe Bottom's acting ability as great because though he isn't happy with his life, he doesn't show it. Bottom's own opinion of his acting ability is that he is so good he can play all the parts.
 * 11. How would you describe Bottom�s acting ability? What is Bottom�s own opinion of his acting ability? **

The reader finds out the current relationship between Oberon, and Titania from the Puck and the first fairy is rocky. Oberon is jealous of how Titania always spends time with the changeling boy. We find out from the first fairy that Puck is also known as Robin Goodfellow.
 * 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?**

Oberon had an affair with Hippolyta and Titania had an affair with Oberon; that is how they were involved with each other. They have come to Athens so they can attend Hippolyta and Oberon's wedding.
 * 11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens?**

An effect that their quarrel has on nature, on the seasons, and humans is that whenever they have an argument, the weather is affected in whatever mood they're in.
 * 12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans?**

Titania won't give up the changeling to Oberon because she remains loyal to the changeling's mother, as she was in return to Titania till her dying day, and decides to take care of the changeling as if he he were her own boy.
 * 13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon?**

Oberon sends Puck to find the field of flowers where Cupid's arrow landed (because it missed it's mark).
 * 14. What does Oberon send Puck to find?**

Oberon's plans for Titania is to put a dewdrop from the infected flowers on Titania's eyelids and make her fall in love with him so she won't be as obsessed with the changeling.
 * 15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania?**

Helena reacts to Demetrius's verbal abuse with comebacks of her own.
 * 16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse?**

Her response to his threats of physical abuse are that she doesn't mind as long as she has permission to follow him.
 * 17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse?**

Helena's behaviour is inappropriate for Athenian women because she is disobeying her father. In the Elizabethan era, fathers controlled their daughters, and by making her own choices, Helena's behaviour is inappropriate.
 * 18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women?**

Oberon tells Puck to put dewdrops of the flowers infected by Cupid's arrow on Demetries's eyelids, so that he may fall in love with Helena.
 * 19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena?**

Oberon wants Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing for revenge. Revenge because she won't obey or listen to him (because he wants the changeling himself for his own purposes), and because she continuosly dotes on the changeling, instead of Oberon.
 * Act II, Scene 2**
 * 20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing?**

Hermia insists Lysander sleep a little ways from her because they are yet not married.
 * 21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her?**

Puck anoint's Lysander's eyes because he mistakens him for Demetrius.
 * 22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes?**

Helena reacys to Lysander's sudden love for her when he awakens with a hurt face. She also says that she thought he was a nicer gentleman.
 * 23. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens?**

Hermia's dream is a reflection of reality because Lysander is the "serpent" who, by loving Helena, "ate her heart away."
 * 24. How is Hermia’s dream a reflection of reality?**

The actors are going to keep from scaring the ladies when Pyramus kills himself by telling them beforehand that Pyramus doesn't really kill himself.
 * 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?**

The actors are going to manage the setting such as the moonlight by having an acot carry a lantern and say, "I am the moon," or open a window so the moon can shine in. The actors are going to manage the scenery suchas the wall by having an actor play the wall.
 * 26. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight and the wall?**

The rest of the actors run when Bottom reappears because Puch turned his head into an ass' head.
 * 27. Why do the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears?**

Puck plans to follow the other actors and make them think he is Bottom so he can scare them because he finds it amusing.
 * 28. What does Puck plan to do when he follows after the other actors?**

Bottom reacts to all the attention from Titania and the other faries as if they're his servants, because he likes the attention he is getting from them.
 * 29. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies?**

That is such an apt statement in the play because every romantic scene in the play includes this statement. For example when Demetrius and Lysander fall in love with Helena.
 * 30. Bottom says, "…reason and love keep little company together nowadays." Why is this such an apt statement at this point in the play?**

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

Puck and Oberon are going to correct Puck's earlier mistake by putting another potion on Lysander's eyes to make him love his former love (Hermia) again.
 * 32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake?**

Hermia is upset when Demetrius says he loves her, even though that is what she wanted to all along, because she thinks he's mocking her.
 * 33. Why is Helena upset when Demetrius says he loves her? Isn’t this what she had wanted all along?**

Helena accuses Hermia of being unladylike and teasing her.
 * 34. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia?**

Hermia and Helena were etremely close in the pastaccording to Helena.
 * 35. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past?**

Lysander treats Hermia quite rudely; he even insults her. She can't believe what he says because she though he loved her.
 * 36. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why can’t she believe what he says?**

Hermia accuses Helena of wooing Lysander.
 * 37. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena?**

Helena is afraid of Hermia because she threatens Helena to scratch her and fight with her.
 * 38. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia?**

Lysander and Demetrius are going off to win Helena by fighting against each other.
 * 39. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to do?**

Oberon tells Puck to make them tired so they'll fall asleep.
 * 40. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men?**

Oberon is going to get the changeling child from Titania and then take out the spell in Titania's eyes so all can go according to his desires.
 * 41. What is Oberon going to do about Titania?**

Oberon doesn't fear the coming day because he doesn't think there's anything to be worried about and thinks everything will work itself out.
 * 42. Why doesn’t Oberon fear the coming of day?**

Puck's trickery works very well, so well, infact, that sll four characters are found lying side by side in the morning.
 * 43. How well does Puck’s trickery work?**

**Review Question: The climax, or turning point, of //A Midsummer Night’s Dream// comeat 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.**
 * **Titania falls in love with Bottom**
 * **Titania plans to make bottom a spirit**
 * **Bottom gets four faries to serve him from Titania**
 * **Oberon wonders if Titania has awaken and if she has, what she fell in love with**
 * **Oberon finds out tht Puck, by accident, laid the love juice on Lysander instead of Demetrius**
 * **Oberon tells Puck to to bring Helena here so when he charms Demetrius's eyes, Helena is the first person he sees**
 * **Oberon squeezes the juice on Demetrius's eyes**
 * **A mad Helena enters the scene with Lysander still proclaiming his love for her, which helena thinks is a joke**
 * **Demetrius wakes up and calls Helena sweet things, and Helena, thinking they;re both on in the joke together, gets extremely angry at them**
 * **Hermia comes, and Lysander tells her he hates her**
 * **Helena now thinks Hermia, Demetrius, and Lysander are all on in this joke together, and is now angry at all three of them**
 * **Hermia gets mad at Helena because she thinks Helena wooed Lysander, which is why he hates her and loves helena now**
 * **Hermia and Helena say mean things to each other**
 * **Hermia threatens Helena that she'll hurt her**
 * **Demetrius and Lysander both say they will protect her, then start insulting each other because they each think they deserve Helena**
 * **Lysander and Demetrius then go off inthe woods to fight for Helena, whilt Helena runs away because then Hermia can't catch her and hit her**
 * **Oberon plans to make everything right so he tells Puck to prevent Demetrius and Lysander from fighting by tiring them out**
 * **The scene ends with everyone going to sleep in the woods, and Puck squeezing the juice on Lysander's eyes**

Bottom has adjusted to the attention of Titania and her faires accordingly. He loves the attention and asks for anything he wants unabashedly.
 * Act IV, Scene 1**
 * 44. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies?**

Oberon's reaction to Titania's infatuation with Bottom is first sastification, and then pity.
 * 45. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom?**

Oberon will just tell Titania that it was a dream.
 * 46. What sort of explanation will Oberon make to Titania’s question about what happened to her?**

Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and the others are out in the woods so early in the morning because they are hunting and preparing for the ceremony.
 * 47. Why are Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and the others out in the woods so early in the morning?**

Theseus's first explanation to why the young people are asleep in the woods is that they rose up early to observe the rite of May and and be the first to help prepare for the ceremony.
 * 48. What is Theseus’s first explanation of why the young people are asleep in the woods?**

Demetrius's explanation is that as suddenly as he started loving Hermia, he just as quickly switched back to loving Helena, by an unknown power. He compared his love for Hermia to an illness; he compared that because he was "sick," the food he loved, he started loathing. After, when his health returned, he realized he loved it and wished for it, and longed for it though.
 * 49. What explanation does Demetrius make? Why does he compare his love for Hermia to an il****lness?**

Theseus's decision concerning the four young people is that they will be married with Hippolyta and him that very day.
 * 50. What is Theseus’s decision concerning the four young people?**

The young people can't be sure wether they're awake or dreaming because if they were dreaming, they all had the same dream, and if they were awake, the reality was too confusing.
 * 51. Why can’t the young people be sure whether they are awake or dreaming?**

Bottom too, believed he had had a dream. He's going to use that to entertain the Duke by making a ballad called, 'Bottom's Ballad."
 * 52. Bottom believes he too has had a dream. How is he going to use that to entertain the Duke?**

The other artisians opinion of Bottom now that they think he is lost is higher than before, because they might have just taken him for granted. When they really needed him, and thought he was lost, it was then that they started complimenting him and missing him.
 * Act IV, Scene 2**
 * 53. What opinion do the other artisans now have of Bottom since they think he is lost?**

They regret most that since there are three weddings going on that day, they will loose three times the amount of money they would've been payed.
 * 54. What do they most regret losing by not being able to perform the play?**

The artisans must hurry to the Duke's palace because they want their play to be chosen out of all the other plays.
 * 55. Why must the artisans hurry to the Duke’s palace?**

**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?**==== ====My opinion of Bottom's character is that he a foolhardy man who dreams big and, unfortunately, isn't very well liked by his peers. He's the opposite of Theseu's character because Theseus has everything that Bottom probably hopes to have, like power, money, and a to-be wife to dote upon him.====

====**b) How do most of the dreamers respond to the dream experience upon waking? Which character is changed permanently by the dream experience?**==== Most of the dreamers respond to the dream experience upon waking up by realizing what their dreams are and striving towards them. Bottom changed permanently by the dream experience because I think he realized that he had to strive for his goals in order to make things come true.

====**c) In this act, several characters look back at prior infatuations with disbelief. What do you think Shakespeare is saying about love and infatuation?**==== In this act, several characters look back at prior infatuations with disbelief. I think shakespeare is trying to say that, to put it simply, "“ One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else." Shakespeare is also trying to describe the difficulty og love and all the problems it can cause, but also how worthwhile it can be in the end.

====**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!**==== media type="file" key="Bottom's Ballad yay.mp3" width="240" height="20" By: Dhanisa, Hana, and Rayanne

a Theseus dismisses the stories of the four young people because he thinks it's, "more stranger than true," and because he believes madmen and lovers have such seething brains that they shape up fantasies.
 * Ballad Form and example.**
 * Act V**
 * 56. Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people?**

Theseus chooses to see the play about Pyramus and Thisbe rather than other entertainments because he knows that these hard-handed men won't be full of themselves. He thinks that they will give it their best, and though it might be simple, duty and tenderness towards the play will make it better.
 * 57. Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisby rather than the other entertainments?**

Philostrate tries to keep Theseus from seeing the play because he thinks it's nothing special. He also thinks it's tedious, and though it made him cry, it was more because of how horrible the play was than the acting or story itself.
 * 58. Why does Philostrate try to keep Theseus from seeing the play? What does he say is wrong with it?**

Theseus means by the lines, "For never anything can be amiss, when simplness and duty tender it," that how can anything be bad in the play when the actors worked so hard on it without thinking very highly of themselves.
 * 59. What does Theseus mean by the lines, "For never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it"?**

The Prologue tells the whole story that the actors are then going to enact so that the audience knows what's going to happen and because it is probably not very well prepared. Since it wasn't very well prepared the actors wrote the prologue so the audience understood the story.
 * 60. What is accomplished by having the Prologue tell the whole story that the actors are then going to enact?**

Shakespeare uses comments from the audience to enhance the humour of the play they are watching so the actors mess up and prove how new they are acting. They comments also break the actor's concentration, and make them cross the four walls between the audience and the cast.
 * 61. How does Shakespeare use comments from the audience to enhance the humour of the play that they are watching?**

Hippolyta thinks the play is one of the silliest thing she's ever seen.
 * 62. What is Hippolyta’s reaction to the play?**

Thisbe's final speech is humorous in a way because Thisbe is played by a guy.
 * 63. In what way is Thisbe’s final speech humorous?**

Oberon tells the faries to sing and dance "trippingly" and sing a ditty with him.
 * 64. What does Oberon tell the fairies to do?**

The purpose of Puck's final speech is that he's appologizing if he's offeded someone, and he's saying that if we didn't like the play, we should think of it as a dream.
 * 65. What is the purpose of Puck’s final speech?**


 * 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 breaking the play’s illusion of reality using the wrong word or name repeating a word excessively ridiculous metaphor **

"I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb." (Ninus tomb) "Thisbe, the flowers of odious savours sweet, ---" (odorous) "tie up my love's tounge, bring him silently." Repeated words: Thee and love

===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?=== Observing another audience helps me understand the relationship between the audience and performers by giving me a chance to observe the comments of the audience on the performers and the play. In turn, that helps me by setting the criteria of what the audience usually thought, and what they wanted in Shakespeare's time. The audience's comments also tell me what was expected of a play.


 * 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?**

===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?=== Pyramus and Thisbe might be unsuitable for a wedding celebration because it's about two lovers who kill themselves. The mood wouldn't really be the best for a wedding celebration, much less multiple wedding celebrations. In a way the play might be appropriate because the lovers kill themselves for love. It sounds pretty romantic to me, and would most definitely be appropriate for a wedding celebration if not for the killing part. The play-within-a-play is an ironic commentary on what the two pairs of young lovers had gone through earlier because in the play the lovers meet up in the woods at night, and the two paris of lovers outside the play-within-a-play also do the same. Completion 25/25 Effort 25/25 Content 22/25 Total 73/75