No Fear Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (by SparkNotes) Original Text -1- Modern Text Act 1‚ Scene 1 Enter THESEUS‚ HIPPOLYTA‚ and PHILOSTRATE‚ with others THESEUS and HIPPOLYTA enter withPHILOSTRATE and others. THESEUS Now‚ fair Hippolyta‚ our nuptial hour Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in Another moon. But oh‚ methinks how slow This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires‚ 5 Like to a stepdame or a dowager Long withering out a young man’s revenue. THESEUS Our wedding day is
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream ACT I SUMMARY: A Midsummer Night’s Dream ACT I starts with Theseus starts to discuss with Hippolyta their wedding that is going to occur in four days. Then Egeus enters with Hermia‚ Lysander‚ and Demetrius. Egeus claims that his daughter Hermia is to marry Demetrius‚ but that Lysander has cast a “magic spell” over her‚ making her fall in love with him. He asks Theseus‚ the duke‚ if he can practice his right as a father and have her either marry Demetrius or have her
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explaining the works of Shakespeare | | How is love presented in A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Is it “Ever True” or “False Sport”? In your answer refer to three of the main pairs of lovers learnt about during the play. | Love. This word is carelessly thrown around in today’s society. It is very implausible that when this word is used‚ the meaning is not taken into account. A Midsummer Nights’ Dream takes love seriously. With many examples of ever true love and false sport‚ we are able to define
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is a play that mainly revolves around two important things‚ mischief and love. Puck‚ one of the main characters is very mischievous with the other characters in the play. One group Puck is mischievous towards are the mechanicals. Puck turns Bottom into an ass. He also interacted with the fairies. He made Titania fall in love with Bottom‚ and as to the young lovers Puck made Helena think she was being mocked. Puck and his
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Why is Love Making Me Mad? In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Love is the running theme. As such it takes on many different forms and characteristics like extreme wanting‚ over protection and true love. Each character runs through the emotion called love in the own very unique way. Take extreme wanting for instance; Helena is going through this for her love of Demetrius. She wants him so bad it borders the line of being a stalker‚ which is not a good thing because Demetrius has
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream What has changed in the relationships between the lovers in Act 3 Scene 2? At the Start of a Midsummer Night’s Dream the relationships between the lovers‚ Hermia‚ Helena‚ Lysander and Demetrius are very confusing. Hermia is being forced by her father‚ Egeus‚ to marry Demetrius which she doesn’t love but he loves her. Hermia loves Lysander and he loves her. Helena loves Demetrius In Act 3 scene 2 and nobody loves Helena. The relationships between the lovers change because
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM SUMMARY This play is a love story that is split between four sets of lovers; Hippolyta and Theseus‚ Hermia and Lysander‚ Helena and Demetrius and Titania and Oberon. The story begins with a distraught father‚ Egeus‚ asking the Duke‚ Thesus‚ to bring the law upon his daughter ’s‚ Hermia’s‚ head. His request is made because he wants her to marry Demetrius and she has disobeyed him by seeing Lysander in secret. The Duke gives Hermia up to the day of his wedding to decide to
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makes her stepson wait to get his inheritance. | 10 | HIPPOLYTA Four days will quickly steep themselves in night.Four nights will quickly dream away the time.And then the moon‚ like to a silver bowNew bent in heaven‚ shall behold the nightOf our solemnities. | HIPPOLYTA No‚ you’ll see‚ four days will quickly turn into four nights. And since we dream at night‚ time passes quickly then. Finally the new moon‚ curved like a silver bow in the sky‚ will look down on our wedding celebration. |
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In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” every character has a defined role and some characters have come to depend on one another. Oberon‚ the fairy king‚ and Robin Goodfellow depend on each other to accomplish their roles in the play‚ as do Peter Quince and Nick Bottom. Robin’s role in the play is being the minion of Oberon. He accepts he is Oberon’s minion when he states‚ “I jest to Oberon and make him smile”(2.1.46). When Oberon sends him to run his errands he accepts without complaint‚ “I go‚ I go
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Logic vs. Magic Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream draws sharp parallels between the two sets of order in the play; one seen in Athens‚ and the other in the forest. Athens is the paragon of order‚ with Theseus ruling in a logical and equitable manner. The "enchanted" forest is a place of chaos and magic‚ untouched by such logical laws as we see in Athens. Faeries and inconstant love rule here‚ while logic and laws govern the movements of Athenians. Both places serve different qualities‚ and
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