A+Midsummers+Dream+play

Hippolyta's Reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass is different from that of Theseus is that she thinks that the day will come fast enough because she is not excited for marrying a man she does not love.
 * 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 brings his daughter and the two men to Theseus because Egeus expects that Theseus will do something to help his decide on what he should do.
 * 2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do?**

In Athenian society the daughter must do what her father requests including marriage if she dose not marry the man he chooses he is allowed to have her killed.
 * 3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia?**

Demetrius says that Lysander and Hermia are to go and see the duke and Demetrius is slightly worried when Lysander tells him about his affair with Helena.
 * 4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things?**

Lysander and Hermia decide to leave Athens and to run off to Lysander's aunt's house to get married witch is outside of Athens so Athens law will not apply. They decide to tell Helena because she is Hermia's best friend and would probably worry when she "goes missing" and that Helena would be trust worthy to not tell any one.
 * 5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena?**

She decides to tell Demetrius that his daughter is going outside of Athens to marry the man she loves. Then the man Helena loves might marry her insted of marrying Hermia.
 * 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?**

The choice she has is marry a man she does not love to be killed or to be sent off to a nunnery.
 * 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**

I think that Nick Bottom may not trust the acting skills of his colleagues so he tries to interfere in there parts.
 * 8. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts?**

This scene is funny because Mr. Bottom wants to play all the parts which ends up being slightly funny.
 * 9. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene?**

The actors meet in the forest and the nature Queen and King meet at the same time.
 * 10. Where are the actors to meet the following night? Who else is meeting there at the same time?**

In Bottoms opinion he knows everything about acting and is the best there is.
 * 11. How would you describe Bottom’s acting ability? What is Bottom’s own opinion of his acting ability?**
 * Act II, Scene 1**

You find out that Titania and Oberon fight when they see each other and that huge storms happen when they are fighting.
 * 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?**

Titania and Theseus and Oberon and Hippolyta both had affairs with each other. They come to athens for the wedding.
 * 11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens?**

When Oberon and Titania get in to a fight the weather changes and then effects the seasons and humans because it would effect the animals,and harvest.
 * 12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans?**

Titania will not give up the changeling because the changeling was her best friends die so Titania said that she would look after the changeling.
 * 13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon?**

The flower that will make people fall in love.
 * 14. What does Oberon send Puck to find?**

The plan that Oberon has for Titania is that puck will put the love potion in her eyes and that the first thing she sees she will fall in love with it and then Oberon would get the changeling.
 * 15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania?**

Helena just terns it around and says good things about him.
 * 16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse?**


 * 17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse?**

1**8. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women?** Helena is going to the man when its the other way around. Oberon instructs puck to retry useing the love potion to try to make it right but it back fires.
 * 19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena?**
 * Act II, Scene 2**

Oberon want Titania to fall in love with a vile thing so that hes will not love the little boy and he hopes that Titania will hand over the little boy to Oberon.
 * 20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing?**

Because they are not married yet and she dose not want anything to happen.
 * 21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her?**

Puck anoint Lysander's eyes because Oberon tolled him to go and anoint a boys eyes how is in the woods and Oberon did not tell the name of this boy so puck did not know how he was tearing to find.
 * 22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes?**

Helena thinks that Lysander is making fun of her because he can nlove her because he was just making plans to go and marries Hippolyta. In her dream a srfent was eating her harte and in reality Lysander had the love stef in his eyes and the first person he saw was Helena and he fell in love with her and that is like her dream becuae the preson hes loves dose not love her and that would be the srfent eating her harte.
 * 23. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens?**
 * 24. How is Hermia’s dream a reflection of reality?**

They tell the audience that he is not realy killing him self and that the lion is not real.
 * 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 decide for the wall that a man would where a costume that represented the wall and for the moon if there was no moon that there would be a man in the boshis with a lantern as the moon.
 * 26. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight and the wall?**

Because bottom has a ass for a haed and every one is scared of him.
 * 27. Why do the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears?**

Puck follows the other actors to try to scare them.
 * 28. What does Puck plan to do when he follows after the other actors?**

At first he is scared then he realizes that there are a bunch of girls so he gets happy. The stanza means that you dont choose someone to love it just happens you cant decide to love them or not. The reason this statement is mentioned is that Titania is fakely inlove with bottom.
 * 29. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies?**
 * . Bottom says, "…reason and love keep little company together nowadays." Why is this such an apt statement at this point in the play?**


 * Act III, Scene 2**

Hermia accuses Demetrius of killing Lysander.
 * 31. What does Hermia accuse Demetrius of doing?**

Oberon decides to put more love juice on lysander eyes.
 * 32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake?**

she thinks that Demetrius is making fun of her because Demetrius did not love her and now he dose.
 * 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 in on the joke that the guys are aperintly playing.
 * 34. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia?**

They were best friends but then the man Helena loved started to love Hermia witch made Helena bitter.
 * 35. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past?**

Lysander tell Hermia the girl he loved yesterday to go away because he loves Helena. Hermia cant belive this because he loved her alot only yesterday.
 * 36. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why can’t she believe what he says?**

Hermia accuses Helena of steeling her betroved love right before they got married.
 * 37. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena?**

Hermia is stronger then Helena so she would be afraid to get hurt.
 * 38. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia?**

Lysander and Demetrius are going of to fight for Helena
 * 39. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to do?**

make them fall asleep and then put love potion into only Lysanders eyes.
 * 40. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men?**

Oberon is starting to feel guilty about Titania so he sends puck out with the cure to the love potion.
 * 41. What is Oberon going to do about Titania?**

Oberon fears the coming day because that day is supost to be the wedding day.
 * 42. Why doesn’t Oberon fear the coming of day?**

His trickery works pirfictly so that Titania loves a half man half Mule and Hermia, Helena, Dometrius, and lysander love different people then they did the day before
 * 43. How well does Puck’s trickery work?**

He loves the attention given by the fairies and Titania because he is the senator of attention with them.
 * 44. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies?**

Oberon Is slightly surprised that there is a ass in his Queen bed but he knows that its this fault when he put love potion in her eyes.
 * 45. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom?**

When Titania is asking Oberon of what happed Oberon dose not say that it was his fault of what happed he tells Titania that they will be dancing at the wedding.
 * 46. What sort of explanation will Oberon make to Titania’s question about what happened to her?**

They are looking for Demetrius,Lysander,Helena, and Hermia.
 * 47. Why are Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and the others out in the woods so early in the morning?**


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

Demetrius saids that Helena tolled him of Lysander and Hermias plane so he flowed them in to the woods and Helena flowed him and now he is in love with Helena.
 * 49. What explanation does Demetrius make? Why does he compare his love for Hermia to an illness?**


 * 50. What is Theseus’s decision concerning the four young people?**

They were not sure if it was a dream or not but then Demetrius saids to follow him.
 * 51. Why can’t the young people be sure whether they are awake or dreaming?**

Bottom believes that he only had a dream but the dream that bottom had bottom want's that to be his life. The other artisans are so sad now that bottom is gone they say how he was so great and that now they cant do the play.
 * 52. Bottom believes he too has had a dream. How is he going to use that to entertain the Duke?**
 * Act IV, Scene 2**
 * 53. What opinion do the other artisans now have of Bottom since they think he is lost?**


 * 54. What do they most regret losing by not being able to perform the play?**

Theseus just thinks that the story of the lovers was a dream but increadibly real and detailed. Theseus hears that the actors of the play are not very good so its more a comidie then a love story. Philostrate was not impreessed by the skills of the actors and he still wanted to get paid by Theseus witch might not happen if the play is very bad. Theseus means that even if a play is short it will still be good size dosent matter to him. The Prologue tells the whole story beacause the story might not be very good leaveing the audience unclear on what is happining in the play. Shakesphere makes the play change by showing the audiences reaction to the play. hippolya is makeing fun of each every actor in the play beauce they keep messing up what they are supost to do. Thisby's final speech is humerous beacause she wasent sure if her lover was really dead but then she realizes and kills her self too. Oberon tells the fairies to wach over the for lovers and there future children. The purpose of Puck's final speech was that he was showing how he was cleaning up the mess he had made.
 * 55. Why must the artisans hurry to the Duke’s palace?**
 * Act V**
 * 56. Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people?**
 * 57. Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisby rather than the other entertainments?**
 * 58. Why does Philostrate try to keep Theseus from seeing the play? What does he say is wrong with it?**
 * 59. What does Theseus mean by the lines, "For never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it"?**
 * 60. What is accomplished by having the Prologue tell the whole story that the actors are then going to enact?**
 * 61. How does Shakespeare use comments from the audience to enhance the humour of the play that they are watching?**
 * 62. What is Hippolyta’s reaction to the play?**
 * 63. In what way is Thisby’s final speech humorous?**
 * 64. What does Oberon tell the fairies to do?**
 * 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

===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?===

===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?===

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