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Book Report on A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1. The title of this book/play is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 2. The author of this book/play is William Shakespeare. 3. The play takes place in Athens, Greece in the 1590’s.
The setting is important to the plot because it revolves around the Duke of Athens and it would not make sense if it was set in a different place. The setting is necessary for the plot to progress because most parts of the story takes place in the woods even though it is still located in Athens. 4. One of the protagonists in the play is Helena.
Helena is a desperate lover. In the play, Helena tells Demetrius, the man she loves, about Hermia, the woman Demetrius loves, and Lysander’s plan to elope. “For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne, He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine…” She says this because she plans to try to make Demetrius fall in love with her while he tries to stop Hermia from eloping. In the process, she exposes her best friend’s plan just to get a man. Helena is also insecure. “Sickness is catching. O, were favor so! Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go.” Helena is saying this to Hermia because she is insecure of her beauty and wishes to be as beautiful as Hermia by saying that she wishes Hermia’s beauty was as contagious as a disease. She is also self-indulgent. “Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?” When Lysander professes his love for her, even though it was just the love potion talking, she feels like she is being mocked because she spent too much time rationalizing why she is not loved which makes her self-indulgent. Helena’s goal in the play was to get Demetrius to fall in love with her. “I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight: Then to the wood will he to-morrow night Pursue her; and for this intelligence If I have thanks, it is a dear expense: But herein mean I to enrich my pain, To have his sight thither and back again.” She is willing to tell
The setting is important to the plot because it revolves around the Duke of Athens and it would not make sense if it was set in a different place. The setting is necessary for the plot to progress because most parts of the story takes place in the woods even though it is still located in Athens. 4. One of the protagonists in the play is Helena.
Helena is a desperate lover. In the play, Helena tells Demetrius, the man she loves, about Hermia, the woman Demetrius loves, and Lysander’s plan to elope. “For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne, He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine…” She says this because she plans to try to make Demetrius fall in love with her while he tries to stop Hermia from eloping. In the process, she exposes her best friend’s plan just to get a man. Helena is also insecure. “Sickness is catching. O, were favor so! Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go.” Helena is saying this to Hermia because she is insecure of her beauty and wishes to be as beautiful as Hermia by saying that she wishes Hermia’s beauty was as contagious as a disease. She is also self-indulgent. “Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?” When Lysander professes his love for her, even though it was just the love potion talking, she feels like she is being mocked because she spent too much time rationalizing why she is not loved which makes her self-indulgent. Helena’s goal in the play was to get Demetrius to fall in love with her. “I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight: Then to the wood will he to-morrow night Pursue her; and for this intelligence If I have thanks, it is a dear expense: But herein mean I to enrich my pain, To have his sight thither and back again.” She is willing to tell