Chapter 10 A Midsummer Night's Dream Answers
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WORKSHEET 10: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
QUESTIONS
1. The play has some important ramifications. To begin with, the events that take place in Acts II and III in woodland and summer moonlight give the play its name. As we can see, the world of magic and the world of the dreams are very important and they belong to a mixture of magic and reality that appears through the whole play. Since the events which happen in the moonlight are just a dream, just part of the magic world far from the real world, the play takes that dream to show that imagination is also shown in the story because as Shakespeare wanted to clarify, is that a world just with imagination is absurd, but a world without it, is insane.
As a second ramification, the play is …show more content…
9. Bottom is the character who unites both worlds. He is a really enthusiastic actor and he is never a spectator. On the other hand, Puck is the bridge between the events that take place and the audience and he is the one who foils Bottom and transforms him into a donkey. We can say that Bottom is a victim of the magic and Puck is the origin of it so there is a struggle between reality and magic.
We can say that they epitomize opposite roles as everyone present contrary features. Bottom is presented as a hero, because Titania has fallen in love with him, while Puck is just presented as a magical creature committing mistakes.
In conclusion, we can determine that both characters show the fight between actors, represented by Bottom, and audience, represented by …show more content…
The main themes of the play are the fights between dreams and reality, between magic and love and thanks to the play within the play, author's expectations are met and we have a visual representation of that struggle. There is also a relation between seeing and acting that increases this idea.
If we deepen, we will find that the parody comes in the shape of a flashback so the lovers become the audience and watch a parody of their own experiences. There is an inversion of roles, and this inversion is the representation of the audience vs. actors’ issue.
On the other hand, the mixture of comedy and tragedy that Shakespeare executes, lead to a transformation from pain to comic, from sorrow to cheerfulness, and this is once again showing the power of the imagination and the fantasy that is present in the
WORKSHEET 10: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
QUESTIONS
1. The play has some important ramifications. To begin with, the events that take place in Acts II and III in woodland and summer moonlight give the play its name. As we can see, the world of magic and the world of the dreams are very important and they belong to a mixture of magic and reality that appears through the whole play. Since the events which happen in the moonlight are just a dream, just part of the magic world far from the real world, the play takes that dream to show that imagination is also shown in the story because as Shakespeare wanted to clarify, is that a world just with imagination is absurd, but a world without it, is insane.
As a second ramification, the play is …show more content…
9. Bottom is the character who unites both worlds. He is a really enthusiastic actor and he is never a spectator. On the other hand, Puck is the bridge between the events that take place and the audience and he is the one who foils Bottom and transforms him into a donkey. We can say that Bottom is a victim of the magic and Puck is the origin of it so there is a struggle between reality and magic.
We can say that they epitomize opposite roles as everyone present contrary features. Bottom is presented as a hero, because Titania has fallen in love with him, while Puck is just presented as a magical creature committing mistakes.
In conclusion, we can determine that both characters show the fight between actors, represented by Bottom, and audience, represented by …show more content…
The main themes of the play are the fights between dreams and reality, between magic and love and thanks to the play within the play, author's expectations are met and we have a visual representation of that struggle. There is also a relation between seeing and acting that increases this idea.
If we deepen, we will find that the parody comes in the shape of a flashback so the lovers become the audience and watch a parody of their own experiences. There is an inversion of roles, and this inversion is the representation of the audience vs. actors’ issue.
On the other hand, the mixture of comedy and tragedy that Shakespeare executes, lead to a transformation from pain to comic, from sorrow to cheerfulness, and this is once again showing the power of the imagination and the fantasy that is present in the