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Act I, Scene 1 By Nicole and Sabrina

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 until their wedding will pass very quickly while Theseus thinks that days are passing so slowly that he is now becoming impatient.

2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do? Egeus brought them because his daughter was in love with a man that he does not to see his daughter marry. He wants Hermia to marry Demetrius who is in love with her. Egus expects Theseus to agree with him and tell his daughter that it is the law to listen to your father.

3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia? That you should always listen to your father or brothers and do what they say because they have the right.

4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things? Because it makes Demetrius look bad because he says that he may not be faithful. It might make the duke want to change his mind.

5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena? They plan to run away so they will not be seperated. They tell Helena because they to make her feel better.

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? Because she thinks that it might make Demetrius love her because she showed how faithful she was to him.

7. Identify Hermia’s basic dilemma. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus and her father? What other choice does Lysander suggest? She is in love with one man but her father is forcing her to marry another man. Her father said that she either marrys Demetrius or she dies. Lysander says that Demetrius has a fathers love and doesn't need Hermia, so he could have her.

Act I, Scene 2 By Nicole and Sabrina

8. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts? Because he thinks that he is the best at all the parts. In other words, he as a big ego.

9. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene? Because Quince said that he didn't want him to play the lion because he might scare the audience from being too good at playing the part. Shakespeare wanted to add some humor to his play.

10. Where are the actors to meet the following night? Who else is meeting there at the same time? Somewhere in the forest which is exactly where Hermia and Lysander plan to runaway to.

11. How would you describe Bottom’s acting ability? What is Bottom’s own opinion of his acting ability? Intense because he is very engaged in acting. He believes that he is a professional.

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Act II, Scene 1 By Nicole and Sabrina

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? They find out that they are fighting, and when they do fight they are changing things, like the seasons becoming messed up and floods and famine. They are fighting over a changeling boy, who was given to the Queen by one of her servants before she died, and about fidelity issues.

11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens? They accuse each other of having affairs with Theseus and Hippolyta and are in the forrest to attend their wedding, which is a few days away.

12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans? It was made the seasons become changed, like there being frost in summer, caused floods, famine, and caused the death of humans because of starvation and also become depressed.

13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon? She doesn't give up the changeling to Oberon because she doesn't believe it is in the boy's best interest, because Oberon just wants the boy for attention.

14. What does Oberon send Puck to find? He sends puck to find pansies, which are purple flowers that contain the juices of love from cupids arrow, which he accidentally shot into the flower.

15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania? He plans to put the juices from the flower on her eyelids, because they make the person fall in love with the first animate object they see when they awake. Oberon does this in hope that she will see a beast, to repay her for embarrassing him.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">She does not see it as abuse. and turns all of his words around, such s when he says "you make me sick", she replies with "I am sick whenever you are not with me." She also welcomes it, because she loves any attention from him.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">She doesn't realize that he is abusing her, and doesn't care because she is desperate and she loves him so much.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">She is practically throwing herself at Demitrius, who doesn't want her. Women were supposed to be modest and understated, and she was being the opposite.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">He feels bad for Helena, so he tells Puck to put the flower's juices on Demitrius's eyelids so when he awakes he sees Helena and falls in love with her.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Act II, Scene 2 By Nicole and Sabrina

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">He wants her to fall in love with some vile thing because he was angry at her and feels revengeful because she embarrassed him by not listening to her.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">She insists they sleep apart because they are not yet married and she wants to keep her modesty.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">He is the only Athenian man he could find, and because he and Hermia were sleeping so far apart, he believes they are the people he was sent to find.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">23. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">She believes he is playing some sort of cruel joke on her and becomes angry because she thinks she is being mocked.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">24. How is Hermia’s dream a reflection of reality? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">She dreamt that a snake had eaten her heart, and that Lysander had sat there watching. This is a reflection of reality, because Lysander's love for her had basically evaporated and left her with nothing, when he left to pursue Helena.

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">25. How are the actors going to keep from scaring the ladies when Pyramus kills himself or when the lion roars? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They are going to do two prologues before the play starts. In the prologues they are going to explain that Pyramus is actually Bottom and that he isn't actually going to kill himself, and that the lion is actually Snout, not a real lion so the women don't get scared.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">26. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight and the wall? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For the moonlight they are going to keep a window open to let in the moonlight, but then decided that having a person with a lantern make the light would be more reliable. For the wall, instead of having a real wall, they decided to have a person represent the wall, with the two people talking through a crack in his fingers, representing the crack in the wall.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">27. Why do the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They run away from Bottom because Puck, who they don't know is there, had turned Bottom's head into an ass's head as a joke. He doesn't know this happened, and the others think they are in the presence of evil spirits or that the woods were haunted.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">28. What does Puck plan to do when he follows after the other actors? He is going to follow them, transforming himself into other animals, and make them think the forest is haunted. He does this because he wants to entertain himself with their fear.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">29. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies? When Titania awakes and confesses her love for Bottom, he doesn't really understand, saying how they have just met and that love and reason keep little company together. He seems to welcome the praise. To the other fairies, he acts conceited and rude, by making fun of their names, by saying things like, to Cobweb, if he ever got a cut he would go to him, and then making jokes at the rest of them.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">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="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is an apt statement at this point in the play because so many people have been anointed with the flower's juices, that everyone's love has become a lie. They are also depending on looks, because they are falling in love with the first person they see, rather than personality like they did before.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Act III, Scene 2 By Nicole and Sabrina

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">31. What does Hermia accuse Demetrius of doing? Hermia accuses Demitrius of killing Lysander in his sleep, because she awoke and found him gone, and when she saw Demitrius, this was the only possible outcome she could think of.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake? They are going to annoint Demitrius's eyes and make him fall in love with Helena.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">33. Why is Helena upset when Demetrius says he loves her? Isn’t this what she had wanted all along? She becomes upset when Demitrius says he loves her because she thinks he is mocking her, since before that he had been really mean and showed no affection at all to her. She did want Demitrius to love her, but she was surprised and thought that he was just making fun of her, and playing a cruel joke on her, not being sincere.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">34. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia? Helena accuses Hermia of being in on the joke that everyone seems to b playing on her, and also mocking and making fun of her, when in fact Hermia has no idea what is going on.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">35. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past? Growing up they were like sisters, best friends their whole lives. Helena stated how they had hated time, because together it had past quickly, and apart it had passed slowly. She also compared them to two cherries with one stem, as they grew up practically as one person.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">36. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why can’t she believe what he says? Lysander is really mean to Hermia, calling her a dwarf and telling her to go away, that he doesn't love her anymore. She cannot believe what he's saying, because just hours before they had been in love, and she doesn't know what happened to produce the change in him to make him stop loving her.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">37. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena? Hermia accuses Helena that she stole Lysander's heart away from her while she slept, since when she awoke, he was in love with Helena, not Hermia.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">38. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia? Helena is afraid of Hermia, because although Hermia is shorter than her, she is very mean. She will fight for what she wants, and is "keen and shrewd". Helena also remarked how when they were in school, she was a vixen in the school yard.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">39. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to do? They are going off to fight each other, the winner getting Helena. This is a mirrored situation of the beginning scene, when both men were fighting over Hermia.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">40. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men? He tells him to lead them on a wild goose chase, tiring them out so they will fall asleep. He separates them in the black fog, tires them out, until they both fall asleep. While they are sleeping, he annoints Lysander's eyes, so when he wakes up he will see Hermia, and then everyone will love the people they are supposed to again.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">41. What is Oberon going to do about Titania? Oberon is going to see Titania and ask her one more time for control of the changeling boy. He seems to be regretting his earlier rash decision and wants to make it right.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">42. Why doesn’t Oberon fear the coming of day? He doesn't fear the upcoming day, because unlike most fairies, he does not disappear in the daylight, he can appear no matter what time of the day it is.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">43. How well does Puck’s trickery work? It works pretty well, because he is able to separate them and make them fall asleep, so he can fix everything, by annointing Lysander's eyes to make him fall in love with Hermia.

__ Major Plot Points __of Act III

- Bottom, Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, and Starveling all meet in the forest to reherse their play - Puck thinks that they are terrible actors and turns Bottom's head into an ass's head. -Everyone runs away frightened, but Bottom begins to sing to show that he isn't afraid. -He wakes up Titania who immediately falls in love with him and calls her fairies so she can make him immortal and live with him forever - Oberon and Puck find out that he had put the juice into the wrong athenian man's eyes when they see Hermia acusing Demetrius of killing Lysander. So Oberon orders Puck to anoint Demetrius's eyes to fall in love with Helena. - When Helena finds Demetrius, she wakes him up and then he falls in love with her. she thinks he is just mocking her. - Lysander who had been following her because he fell in love with Helena when he awoke, argues over who should get Helena while hermia fights with Helena for stealing Lysander's heart -The two men go out to battle each other for Helena's love. - Obern now enraged oders Puck to fix this - Puck casts black fog over the forest where the men are so he could lurer them away from each other, tier them out, then make them fall asleep so he could make the right men love the right thr right girl. - He anoints the eyes of Lysander so that when he wakes up, he will love Hermia again.

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44. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies? Bottom really enjoys the attention and praise, and doesn't even question it. He thinks that because he is so great, he should be getting all this attention and that things were the way they should be. Even at the beginning he seemed totally at ease with the attention of both Titania, and her fairies.

45. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom? At first Oberon was immensly pleased with the outcome of the flower's juices, because he had done what he did out of spite and revenge, hoping she would fall in love with some vile creature, which she did, wit the ass-head Bottom. After a while though, after witnessing first hand what a disastrous mess the flower's juices can create, he starts to regret what he did and feel guilt and remorse, especially after Titania gives him the Changeling boy.

46. What sort of explanation will Oberon make to Titania’s question about what happened to her? After Oberon reversed the love potion, he woke a sleeping Titania, who when awoken, was no longer in love with Bottom. He decided to tell her, when she awoke, that everything had been a dream.

47. Why are Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and the others out in the woods so early in the morning? Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and their followers are out in the woods so early in the morning because they are celebrating the May morning with hunting hounds in preperation of the day's ceremonies, since it is the day of Theseus' long awaited marraige to Hippolyta.

48. What is Theseus’s first explanation of why the young people are asleep in the woods? At first when the hunters come across the two sleeping couples, Theseus thinks they are there because they woke up early to celebrate May Day and went to the forrest because they heard they (Theseus, Hippolyta, and company) would be there so they went there to meet them.

49. What explanation does Demetrius make? Why does he compare his love for Hermia to an illness? When Demitrius explains why he is once again in love with Helena, he states that he was in love with Helena before he even met Hermia and that he loved her so much for a while he hated her, that he was sick, and while he was sick he "loathed the food he usually loved" and went to Hermia. After he was "cured" from the sickness he stopped loving Hermia and fell back in love with Helena.

50. What is Theseus’s decision concerning the four young people? Thesues, overruling Egeus's Athenian Law, decides that sicne all four of the young people are so much in love with each other, and since it was his wedding day, they should all be married at his wedding, all of them getting married at the same time.

51. Why can’t the young people be sure whether they are awake or dreaming? The other people are not sure whether they are awake or dreaming because when they wake up and they see Theseus, he tells them that they are free to marry each other and that they shall be married today at his wedding. This is completely opposite of what had happened not too long ago, when none of them were going to be able to marry the one they wanted to marry, because of other people in the way.

52. Bottom believes he too has had a dream. How is he going to use that to entertain the Duke? When Bottom wakes up, Titania is gone and so are the fairies. He no longer has an ass's head, and thinks that everything that has happened has been a dream. he decided that he cannot tell anyone, because if he told someone then they would think he was insane and no one would take him seriously. He decided to instead of telling people of his "dream", he would have Peter Quince write a ballad for him, entitles "Bottom's Dream", which he will perform at Thisbe's death.

1.) I think of Bottom's character as self absorbed yet kind and caring. His love for life enables him to engage in it to the fullest with a sense of joy. In this play he is the center of comedy. Theseus does not think that he can play every role in life the best and that people are fools who don't use their heads when in love. 2.)Since most of the lovers have been anointed with the love juice they think that they had always loved that person and that their recent experience was just a bizarre dream. I think Bottom was the character that was permently changed because when he awoke he seemed to realize that loving another person does not make you look like a fool, but that it brings even more joy and life to you.? 3.)He telling us that there is a very big difference between love and infatuation. In the begining of a relationship for example, it's easy to think that you have found true love because the intensity of infatuation can take over you life. Love usually never happens suddenly because it is created through time and experiences. The flower from the play really only created infatuation when you compared the love Lysander had for Hermia to the love he had for Helena.

Last night I had an wonderful dream In love with me was a fairy queen More beautiful than anything I'd ever seen So good it could only have been a dream

For eternity she wanted to live with me To her heart I held the key As perfect as anything could ever be She was my perfect cup of tea.

We were so happy in this dream The happiest couple anyone had ever seen But we were taken back to reality Away from the happy fantasy?

It was so great but it didn't last Although so long it went so fast And now just a memory in the past Because no good thing can ever last.

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56. Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people? Theseus doesn't believe the stories of the four young people, Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demitrius, and dismisses them because he thinks that they were dreaming. When Hippolyta asks how they could be in each other dreams, he still sticks to his point.

57. Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisby rather than the other entertainments? Theseus chooses to see the play about Pyramus and Thisbe because he thinks it will be interesting, since it is described as tidiously brief and a tragical mirth, and also thought that it was more suitable for a wedding than the other forms of entertainment. He had also seen some of the other acts before and anted to see something new.

58. Why does Philostrate try to keep Theseus from seeing the play? What does he say is wrong with it? Philostrate tried to keep Thesues from seeing the play because he had seen it before and knew it wasn't a very good play, but had also seen the actors rehearsing backstage and knew that they weren't very good actors. He said that the actors were not very good, the play was not well written, and that the play seems like it lasts forever. He also says how the actos are working men, not professional actors.

59. What does Theseus mean by the lines, "For never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it"? What he meant was that nothing can be wrong when it's done by simple people try their best, because your best is the only thing you can do, no matter your stature.

60. What is accomplished by having the Prologue tell the whole story that the actors are then going to enact? The purposes of prologues, one for the lion, one for Pyramus, is to prepare the audience for what happens in the play. They do not want to scare the women of the audience or frighten anyone when the lion comes out, because the lion is scary, or be alarmed when Pyramus kills himself. In the prologues they explain that Pyramus is not actually Pyramus but Bottom the Weaver, and that the lion is not actually the lion, but Snug the Joiner.

61. How does Shakespeare use comments from the audience to enhance the humour of the play that they are watching? Shakespeare uses comments from the audience to enhance the humour of the play because when the audience members comment on something, they are mostly making fun of it, and that makes it more appealing to them because they are having a good time criticizing what the actors are doing.

62. What is Hippolyta’s reaction to the play? At first Hippolyta didn't really like the play because she thought it was extremely silly, however Thesues thought it was more imaginative than silly. Near the end, however, after Thisbe stopped talking in a high voice and pretending to be overly woman like, she and everyone else stopped talking and started to take things more seriously. She started crying when Thisbe killed herself, and applauded at the end with everyone else. She seemed moved by the performance.

63. In what way is Thisby’s final speech humorous? Thisbe's final speech is humorous in the beginning because Thisbe was played by a man, and he was speaking in a very high voice and wearing make up and a wig. Also, when she first sees Pyramus, even though there is obviously a big sword sticking out of him, she says "asleep my love"?

64. What does Oberon tell the fairies to do? Oberon, apon arriving at the house with Titania, tells his fairies to go all through the house and bless the bedchambers of all the newlyweds. He tells the fairies to bless the bed chambers and protect them, so no one will disturb them. He also hopes they will have a good life,

65. What is the purpose of Puck’s final speech? The purpose of Puck's final speech is to conclude the play. he states that if the audience members didn't like the play, then they could pretend that they were asleep and everything was just a dream. During his final speech he was sweeping the stage, and this is symbolic because he is "sweeping up his mess", because most of the bad things that occured in the play were because of 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 "Whereas, with blade, with bloody blameful blade." "He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast."

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Breaking the play's illusion of reality. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Puck's final speech, because the whole time he is adressing the audience. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If we shadows have offended, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Think but this, and all is mended, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That you have but slumber'd here <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">While these visions did appear. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And this weak and idle theme, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">No more yielding but a dream, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gentles, do not reprehend: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">if you pardon, we will mend: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And, as I am an honest Puck, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If we have unearned luck <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We will make amends ere long; <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Else the Puck a liar call; <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So, good night unto you all. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Give me your hands, if we be friends, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">And Robin shall restore amends.

When Pyramus adresses Thesues during the play.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'Deceiving me' <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes.

Using the wrong word or name. "Ninny's tomb." "I see a voice." "I hear my Thisbe's face."

Repeating a word excessively "O grim looked night! O night with hues so black! O night, which ever art when day is not! O night! O night!

Ridiculous metaphor

"The iron tongue of midnight" is a metaphor for how harsh the end of the day is. Bottom breaking down the fourth wall during the play is a metaphor for how Bottom is better than everyone else.

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> 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? ===

Watching another audience watch a play makes me think and realize more how when people are watching a play, they are extremely critical. They also gossip a lot during the play too. It also was interesting to watch an audience watch a play to see how they absorb what the actors are doing. I also realized that the relationship is a lot closer than in movies, because the actors are performing to the audience. Both the actors and the audience are more involved in what they are doing, whether it's watching or performing

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">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? ===

One example is Titania and Oberon, because he was controlling who she fell in and out of love with, while she was completely oblivious and clueless the whole time. Another example is Puck and all of the lovers. He was playing matchmaker, making them fall in and out of love with each other, while they had no idea what was going on.

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">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 enactment of Pyramus and Thisbe is unsuitable for a wedding because it is about a couple losing one another, and not being able to be together, whereas a wedding is a celebration of union of a couple, or in this case three. It may be suitable for a wedding because it also displays how strong love can be and how devoted two people can be to die for one another. The play within a play is an ironic commentary on what the two pairs of lovers have gone through because they all know what it feels like to not be able to be with the one you love, and also, especially since they just got married, they are imagining how sad they would be if they lost one another.

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