A+Midsummer+Night's+Dream

Act I Theseus wanted the four days to go by very quickly, because he is rushing to the wedding. Hippolyta wanted things to go slowly and thought the four days go by fast enough. He wants Hermia to marry Demetrius but she wants to marry Lysander. Egeus wants Theseus to accept that Egeus will kill Hermia if she doesn't marry Demetrius. Women have to do everything their Father or Husband says. If they don't they can be punished or even murdered. Demetrius loved Helena until Egeus wanted him to marry Hermia. He just switched from one day to another and loved Hermia instead of Helena. They plan to run away into the forest where the law can't reach them. They tell Helena because she looks really desperate and sad about Demetrius. She thinks that he will be so happy that Helena told him, that he would fall back in Love with her. Theseus gives her three choices which are marrying Demetrius, to die or to become a nun. Lysander suggests to run away from Hermia's Father to his aunt's place, where the law can't reach them.
 * Act I, Scene 1**
 * 1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus?**
 * 2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do?**
 * 3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia?**
 * 4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things?**
 * 5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell 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?**
 * 7. Identify Hermia’s basic dilemma. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus and her father? What other choice does Lysander suggest?**

He wants to play all the parts because he thinks no one could play them better than h does. It is funny because hBottom wants to play all the scene's even when the characters stand on the stage together. He tries to show Quince that he is a great actor, but Quince just tells him he would play to good so everyone would be scared of him playing the lion. They are going to meet at the forest the next night so no one will steal their ideas. Lysander and Hermia are going to meet at the forest as well.
 * Act I, Scene 2**
 * 8. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts?**
 * 9. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene?**
 * 10. Where are the actors to meet the following night? Who else is meeting there at the same time?**
 * 11. How would you describe Bottom’s acting ability? What is Bottom’s own opinion of his acting ability? **

Podcast Assignment (May be done with a partner)
**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 (find and record at least 8). Create the mood and atmosphere of act 1 by adding a musical score to the background. Your podcast should start with: **

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** Act II ** Act II, Scene 1 The reader finds out that Titania and Oberon are in a big fight about the boy and that terrible things happen when they're fighting. Titania seemed to had a realtionship with Theseus and Oberon with Hippolyta. They both came to Athens to attend the Wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. When ever they fight somewhere in the world something bad happens, like storms etc. Because he is the son of her servant and good friend. Titania promised to take care of him when the child's mother would die. The plants which had love-power after an arrow fell into them. He wants to make Titania love a beast with help of the plants. She loves him more and more with everything he says. She turns everything around and makes every bad things he says to good things. Athenian women shouldn't run after the men. The men should run after them. He tells to make the Athenian man love the woman next to him. He should do that with the plants.
 * 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?**
 * 11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens?**
 * 12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans?**
 * 13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon?**
 * 14. What does Oberon send Puck to find?**
 * 15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania?**
 * 16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse?**
 * 17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse?**
 * 18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women?**
 * 19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena?**

he wants to revenge that she didn't give him the boy. She doesn't want him so near until the are married. Because he thinks Lysander is the Athenian man Oberon talked about. She thinks Lysander is just mean and wants to hurt her feelings. She dreams her heart got eaten and when she awakes Lysander is gone after Helena, because he thinks he loves her.
 * Act** **II, Scene 2**
 * 20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing?**
 * 21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her?**
 * 22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes?**
 * 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?**

** Act III ** They are going to write a prologue and then they are going to present it right before the play. It is gonna be a full moon in the night of the play/ someone is going around the stage with a lantern and tells the audience he is the moon. Someone else is gonna wear a costume and plays the wall with the hole in it. Because Puck changed Bottom's head to a donkey's head. He plans to scare them by changing into many different animals and chasing them around He likes having attention on him and being served. Because Theseus first fought against Hippolyta and now they are going to marry each other, Lysander told Hermia he will love her until the end and a few hours later he runs after Helena and Demetrius changed his mind from one day to the other and instead of loving Helena he decided to love Hermia. In the play no Love story is because of a reason.
 * 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?**
 * 26. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight and the wall?**
 * 27. Why do the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears?**
 * 28. What does Puck plan to do when he follows after the other actors?**
 * 29. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies?**
 * 30. Bottom says, "…reason and love keep little company together nowadays." Why is this such an apt statement at this point in the play?**

She accuses him of killing Lysander. They are going to make the men fall asleep and then bring the women to them and then make Lysander fall back in Love with Hermia. She thinks he is just mocking her and that he doesn't really loves her. Being part of the mocking and being "low". They were really good friends since they were children. He tells her thta he hates her and loves Helena. Hermia can't believe it because he said he was in love with her a few hours earlier. Being a juggler and a thief of Love. Because Hermia is really angry and would win in a fight against Helena. They are going to fight about Helena. He tells Puck to make them fall asleep. He is going to beg for the Indian boy and release Titania from the monster's view. He does not fear the day because he knows that things will end p back to normal or the way he wants things to be. It doesn't work out very well because he makes Lysander and Demetrius love Helena and Hermia still loves Lysander so every one is upset.
 * Act III, Scene 2**
 * 31. What does Hermia accuse Demetrius of doing?**
 * 32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake?**
 * 33. Why is Helena upset when Demetrius says he loves her? Isn’t this what she had wanted all along?**
 * 34. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia?**
 * 35. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past?**
 * 36. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why can’t she believe what he says?**
 * 37. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena?**
 * 38. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia?**
 * 39. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to do?**
 * 40. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men?**
 * 41. What is Oberon going to do about Titania?**
 * 42. Why doesn’t Oberon fear the coming of day?**
 * 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.** ====


 * Titania falls in Love with Bottom.
 * Hermia accuses Demetrius of killing Lysander.
 * Oberon gives the magical juice to Demetrius.
 * Demetrius falls in love with Helena.
 * Hermia comes back and searches for Lysander.
 * Lysander and Demetrius fight over Helena.
 * Lysander tells her that he doesn't love her.
 * Hermia and Helena fight.
 * Puck makes them all fall asleep and applis the antidote into Lysander's eyes.

** Act IV ** He feels great with all the attention and commands his servants to do everything for him. He felt a bit guilty about making her love Bottom. But when she asks him what happened he totally ignored her questions. Oberon tries to change the topic and make her dance with him so she just forgets about it. because they are on a fox hunt. He thinks they went out really early this morning to observe the rite of May. He tells Egeus that the he loves Helena now and not Hermia. He says that like in a sickness he chose the wrong woman and now that he is "healthy" again he cam back to his natural taste. He wants them all to marry the same day as Hippolyta and Theseus. Everything seems small and undistinguishable to them. The see things with parted eyes. He is going to tell peter Quince to write a Ballad about it and then he wants to play it.
 * Act IV, Scene 1**
 * 44. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies?**
 * 45. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom?**
 * 46. What sort of explanation will Oberon make to Titania’s question about what happened to her?**
 * 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?**
 * 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?**
 * 51. Why can’t the young people be sure whether they are awake or dreaming?**
 * 52. Bottom believes he too has had a dream. How is he going to use that to entertain the Duke?**

They think he is the only man in Athens who could play Pyramus so good. They most regret that they won't get the money Theseus would give them for playing. They must hurry to the palace because Bottom returned from the woods and they have not much time left until they have to show their play.
 * 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?**
 * 55. Why must the artisans hurry to the Duke’s palace?**

**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?**
Bottom's character loves himself, needs a lot of attention, thinks about nothing else then himself and talks a lot. Theseus's character is the character of a king. He rules with every word he says, doesn't talk much and is in the position of a wealthy person. Bottom is the antithesis of Theseus because he totally acts like a king but is just one of many merchants. Theseus in the opposite doesn't let the world see he is the king, but he actually is.

**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 are totally confused when they awake about whether the just dreamed everything or if it was true. Demetrius is the person that changed permanently because he changed from being in love with Hermia to being in love with Helena.

**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 the play “The Midsummer Night’s Dream”, William Shakespeare analyzes the difficulty of Love. Every relationship brings out other complications. Egeus doesn’t accept Hermia being with Lysander, Oberon is jealous of Titania not giving him attention and Helena loves Demetrius but Demetrius loves Hermia. With the Love juice everything gets even more complicated. Every character has his own problems with love and and all the difficulties coming with it. “The course of true Love never did run smooth.” is a quote Shakespeare used to illustrate the course of love and the plot of the play.

== **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!** ==

__** Bottom’s Dream By Merle and Mariana **__  media type="file" key="bottom's Dream 2.m4a" align="center" width="300" height="50"


 * I was out in the woods rehearsing with friends **
 * when suddenly I said “what’s got into their heads?” **
 * For they screamed, and ran ,and left with great sorrow **
 * Then Quince exclaimed “young man we'll see you tomorrow!” **


 * I was lost and confused for that was strange as could be **
 * And then I saw her ... she was there...in a tree **
 * She loved my great singing and said “ Oh how could this be? **
 * But somehow I feel that I now must love thee” **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I felt stunned and overwhelmed for I had the head of an ass **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then down came Peaseblossom with some green yummy grass **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We all had a party and we danced with great cheer **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There was love in the air and happiness was near. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I Woke up one morning and all was now lost **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Had no loving bride and all was now tossed **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With no one around and no place to go **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I was lost in the woods just a lonely old fellow **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And then I realized was this all just a dream? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">did I really meet her and was I really a king? **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I made up my mind and wrote this great song **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Of a Bottomless Dream that I don’t now recall **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Of a beautiful Fairy and an ugly old ass **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and the greenest most yummiest gorgeous tall grass **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I sang this to children, I sang this to kings **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I sang this to little and scary young pigs **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now this is the end ...it is sad as can be **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For this king has lost his great bride in a tree. **

** Act V ** He doesn't believe in fables and and the Love drink. Because it sounds interesting and isn't political or anything. Because he thinks it is awful. He says that he saw them rehearsing and that he laughed so hard that he had to cry, because it was so bad. Even if it is simple they re trying to do their best. The Audience already knows the whole story before the play actually starts. He made the Audience making fun of the play. She thinks that the ply is the silliest thing she has ever seen. She says good-bye to the audience before she dies. He tells them to dance. He wants to excuse himself for making all this mass and tells the audience he will make sure nothing will happen to the pairs.
 * 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:**

<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> Pyramus: No, in truth, sir, he should nit. "deceiving me" is Thisbe's cue. She is to enter now, and I am to spy. her through the wall. You shall see, it will fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes. <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> Thisbe: And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">(p. 89 v. 201-202) Pyramus: Not shafalus to Procrus was so true. <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> Thisbe: As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you
 * 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;">excessive alliteration **<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> (p. 91 v. 270)"For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams"
 * <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">breaking the play’s illusion of reality **<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">(p. 88 v. 184-189) " Theseus: The all, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.
 * <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">using the wrong word or name **<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">(p. 89 v. 199-200) " And, I like Limander, am I trusty still."
 * <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">repeating a word excessively **<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">(p.92 v. 303) "Now die, die, die, die, die."
 * <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">ridiculous metaphor **<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">(p. 91 v. 277) " O dainty duck!"

=== **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?** === By observing another audience, we know what the Audience says about the play of Pyramus and Thisbe. We scene five and know that the audience did not really like the play. We know which person says what about the 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?** === The Simpsons: Homer is really stupid and the millionaire is the smart sarcastic one. Spongebob: Spongebob and Patrick are the stupid ones and

=== **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?** === The play of Pyramus and Thisbe is unsuitable for the wedding, because it is more like a tragedy than a romantic play about two lovers. It could be appropriate because it is about one person deciding to die because he thinks his big love got killed. The two lovers have to run away from home so they can be together and they want to hide in the woods. Hermia and Lysander ran away to the woods to get away from the Athenian law and Hermia's father.