Midsummer+Nights+Dream


 * A Midsummer Night’s Dream”**

1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus? Hippolyta thinks that the next four days will fly by while Theseus thinks it will seem like forever.
 * Act I, Scene 1**

2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do? His daughter will not marry the suitor he chooses. Egeus expects Theseus to grant him the power to dispose of (kill) his daughter.

3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia? To marry a proper respectable man. Theseus tells Hermia that she has three choises, to merry Demetrius, join a nunerry, or be killed by her father.

4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things? He sais that Demetrius suddenly changed his mind about loving Helena so he is not very consistant and dose not take love serriosly. So this meens he may not be consistant with Hermia

5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena? They plan to run away and get married at his aunt's house witch is outside of athens and therefor out side Athenian law. They tell Helena their plan to elope to give her hope of another chance with Demetrius because if he can't marry Hermia then he might go back to Helena.

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?

To try and gain his trust and, eventually, love.
7. **Identify Hermia’s basic dilemma. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus and her father? What other choice does Lysander suggest? **
 * Hermia is being forced by her father to marry a man she dosent love. Theseus gives her the options of being killed by her father marrying the man she doesnt love or joining a nunery. Lysanders suggestion is to run away and get married at his aunts house which is outside of athens. **

They meet in the forest outside of town at the same time as the four lovers (Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena).
11. **How would you describe Bottom’s acting ability? What is Bottom’s own opinion of his acting ability? **
 * Bottom thinks he is the best actor out of his group even though he over acts everything. **

**Podcast Assignment**
==**Act 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes place in the daytime, but it contains many images of the moon that foreshadow the night to come. Using GarageBand record yourself reading the lines in Act 1 that illustrate the imagery of night/moon. Share to iTunes and upload the mp3 to your wikispace.** ==

** 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? ** ** The reader finds out that the King and Queen are fighting about a changeling child. **

** 11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens? ** ** In the past, Oberon had an affair with Hippolyta, and Titania had an affair with Theseus. Oberan and Titania have come to Athens to attend the wedding of Hippolyta and Theseus. **

** 12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans? ** ** When Oberon and Titania quarrel, devastating things happen. Seasons become confused, floods occur and crops rot :O **

** 13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon? ** ** Titania refuses to give the changeling to Oberon, because the child was the child of Titania's former servant and friend. When the servant died, her final request was that Titania took care of her child. **

** 14. What does Oberon send Puck to find? ** ** Oberon sends Puck to find a special flower. The juices from the flower causes deep love. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** To get back at Titania, Oberon decides to put the juice on her eyelids while she sleeps, hoping that she will fall in love with an animal. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Helena twists all of the abusive words Demetrius says, into an expression of love, <3 **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Helena brushes his physical abuse threats off, or twists them into an expression of love. She also continues to follow him. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** In Athens, woman weren't supposed to talk back to men. Woman had very limited rights. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Oberon tells Puck that there is an Athenian man being pursued by an Athenian woman. He wants Puck to put the juice from the flower on Demetrius's eyes, so he will fall in love with Helena. Unfortunately, Oberon didn't specify which Athenian man Puck should give the flower juice to. Puck gave the juice to Lysander by mistake. This resulted in the main conflict. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** To get back at Titania for not giving him the changeling child. He also thinks it would be a funny. **
 * <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Act II, Scene 2 **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Because she wants to maintain her modesty until she is married. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Puck anoints Lysander's eyes because he thinks Lysander is the Athenian man Oberon was talking about. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 23. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Helena assumes that Lysander is playing a trick on her. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 24. How is Hermia’s dream a reflection of reality? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Hermia dreamt that a snake was eating his heart. This is a reflection of reality, because when she wakes up, her lover has left her for another woman. This could be a reflection of reality because it could symbolize the fact that she is losing the most important person in her heart. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">25. How are the actors going to keep from scaring the ladies when Pyramus kills himself or when the lion roars? They are going to tell the awdiance that it is fake be for they start the play.
 * <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Act III, Scene 1 **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">26. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight and the wall? They will have actors playing the props like the wall.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">27. Why do the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears? They run off because Bottoms head has been turned into that of a donkeys and they think he is some sort of beast from the forest.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">28. What does Puck plan to do when he follows after the other actors? He thinks he could be an actor.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">29. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies? He welcomes there atention and is happy to be pamperd.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">30. Bottom says, "…reason and love keep little company together nowadays." Why is this such an apt statement at this point in the play? <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">The Four lovers think that they are in love but they have no reason to do so.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">31. What does Hermia accuse Demetrius of doing? <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Of poking fun and being cruel.
 * <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Act III, Scene 2 **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake? They will put the juice from the flower in Lysanders eyes when he falls asleep and make sure that Hermia is the first person he sees when he wakes up. The juice makes the person fall in love with the first person they see when they wake up.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">33. Why is Helena upset when Demetrius says he loves her? Isn’t this what she had wanted all along? <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">This is what she has wanted all along but she doesnt think that Demertius is being sinsere and is make fun of her. <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">She may also only want what she can't have so when Demetrius tells her he loves her he becomes less appealing to her.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">34. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia? <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">She accused Hermia of being part of the joke and making fun of her.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">35. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past? <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">THey had been very close almost like sisters.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">36. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why can’t she believe what he says? <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">He treats her like trash and acuses her of tricking him in to loving her. She cant believe what he says because just a couple of minutes ago he was madly in love with her.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">37. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena? She accuses Helena of tuerning Lysander against her.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">38. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia? Because Hermia is taller and so she seems more intimidating.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">39. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to do? <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">THey are going of to fight, thay each want to kill the other.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">40. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men? <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">He tells Puck to lead them away from each other and then put the juice in Lysander's eyes and make him fall back in love with Hermia.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">41. What is Oberon going to do about Titania? <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">He is going to go talk to her and try toget her to give him the boy, if she does he will take the spell off of her.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">42. Why doesn’t Oberon fear the coming of day? Unlike most ferries he still have his powers during the day.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">43. How well does Puck’s trickery work? Puck's trickery works well in that they both believe that he is their apponent. ====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**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.** ==== - Puck messes up who's eyes he should put the juice into and everyone is falling in love with the wrong person - at one point everyone is arguing - this is like the feel of the story in that everyone is aggressive - the characters are all feeling that they are being mocked in some way - Puck is told by Oberon to sort things out - Puck puts the pansy juice on Lysander's eyes so that when he wakes up he will fall back in love with Hermia if she is close by. - Oberon wants to straighten things out with Titania by asking her for the boy - this is to give her another chance -Puck gets everyone asleep near to the person that Oberon wants them to fall in love with.

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Podcast: Shakespeare plays with ideas of vision, of blindness, and of different ways of interpreting what one sees. Podcast, with music the lines in Act Three that deal with this imagery.** ===

44. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies? He is happy being attended to by them and enjoys their attention.
 * Act IV, Scene 1**

45. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom? He is pleased with what he has done and is happy she is being heumilliated.

46. What sort of explanation will Oberon make to Titania’s question about what happened to her? He just changes the subject.

47. Why are Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and the others out in the woods so early in the morning? They're out hunting fox. 48. What is Theseus’s first explanation of why the young people are asleep in the woods? They ran away and got lost. 49. What explanation does Demetrius make? Why does he compare his love for Hermia to an illness? Demetrius says that Helena told him about the couple going into the woods and he was so mad that he ran into the woods after them. It was like an illness in that it was bothersome but he would eventually come to accept it. 50. What is Theseus’s decision concerning the four young people? He decides to let them get married as they wish. 51. Why can’t the young people be sure whether they are awake or dreaming? What they think is a dream is very vivid so they are not sure if this is just part of it. 52. Bottom believes he too has had a dream. How is he going to use that to entertain the Duke? He is going to get a ballad written about his "dream". 53. What opinion do the other artisans now have of Bottom since they think he is lost? They are verry upset that he is missing and are saying to each other that he was a verry good actor and seem to have gaind more respeced for him. 54. What do they most regret losing by not being able to perform the play? Getting paid
 * Act IV, Scene 2**

55. Why must the artisans hurry to the Duke’s palace? The Duke had already dined and was waiting for them.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Extending the thought process.**
====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">a) The fourth act opens and ends with Bottom at center stage. What is your opinion of Bottom’s character? **He is really arrogant and Theseus seems to be very humble**How might he be the antithesis, or opposite, of Theseus’s character? ==== ====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">b) How do most of the dreamers respond to the dream experience upon waking? Which character is changed permanently by the dream experience? ==== ====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**They all brush it off as a dream. Demetrius was permanently changed by the experience in that he now loves Helena**. ==== ====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">c) In this act, several characters look back at prior infatuations with disbelief. What do you think Shakespeare is saying about love and infatuation? ====

Infatustion comes and goes and switches from person to person but once you love someone you love them forever.
==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">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! ==

Lonely and alone, Left in the woods I met a lady, with magical looks She said she loved me, gave me gifts and affection I fell for her words, and got an erection

I awoke from this dream Abandoned by my team I thought fairies did not exist This experience, I thought would only happen in myths.

I left paradise, was I hallucinating? I will never know, but found a crown of gold plating. They'll never believe me, this experience too stranged. I shall write this ballad, so I don't seem deranged!

Counterproductive.

56. Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people? He does not beleave their story and thinks it is to far fetched.
 * Act V
 * Act V

57. Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisby rather than the other entertainments? He has ether seen the other plays or does not think they are sutible for a weding.

58. Why does Philostrate try to keep Theseus from seeing the play? What does he say is wrong with it?
 * He thinks it is foolish and poorly executed. He says that it is silly and that the actors are not very good and are only simple workers.**

59. What does Theseus mean by the lines, "For never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it"? That if they put their heart and soil into it and try their best that nothing can go wrong.

60. What is accomplished by having the Prologue tell the whole story that the actors are then going to enact?
 * The ladies will not be surprised or frightend by it.**

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? **She acts as if she is bored with it and puts down the actors**
 * He uses the comments to turn the tragic history into a farce.**

63. In what way is Thisby’s final speech humorous?**he is comparing people and their physical attributes to food - leeks, milk, cherries**

64. What does Oberon tell the fairies to do?

65. What is the purpose of Puck’s final speech?
 * In the time it was orriganaly performed it was to tell people to invite there friend's if they thought it was good but if not to imagin that it was all a dream.**

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. <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">excessive alliteration <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">breaking the play’s illusion of reality <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">using the wrong word or name <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">repeating a word excessively <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">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? //I was able to see how the performances were affected by the audience reaction to what they saw on the stage. The actors changed depending on the audiences reaction//===

===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? The shows: "House" where the main character is sarcastic to everyone and especially those that come across as not very smart, MASH- where Major Burns is the silly clueless character and Hawkeye Pierce is the sarcastic, clever character, NCIS - Gibbs is clever and can be sarcastic to some of the characters but Abbie plays the innocent,===

===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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