A+Midsummer+Night's+Dream

  **- Act I Night Images Podcast by Eehjoe and Kate LeBere-** media type="file" key="Midsummer Nights Dream.mp3" width="240" height="20" align="left"   **-Act IV Bottom'** **s Dream Podcast by Eehjoe and Kate LeBere-** media type="file" key="Bottomless Dream.mp3" width="240" height="20" I had a dream, a glorious dream Where the fairies sang and danced For I had a fair queen in this dream The love me as the stars did prance

I had a dream a precious dream Where my privilege hit the peak For I was like a king in this dream Thus my love started to leak

I had dream a magical dream Where I woke with everything gone For I was enchanted in this dream Missing the night when it turned to dawn   **__ Act I, Scene 1 __** **1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus? ** Hippolyta is much more patient than Theseus. She thinks in a positive way and tries to comfort impatient Theseus by telling him that the four days will go by quickly.

Egeus has brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus because Hermia is not willing to marry Demetrius, the man Egeus picked for her, and instead, is in love with Lysander. Egeus is expecting Theseus to give a satisfied solution to the problem and he also wants a permission from Theseus to allow him to kill his daughter if she goes against his will.
 * 2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do?**

The proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus is that they have to be subservient to men. Women have to listen to men and do whatever they tell them to do or else they will be killed which was legal in Atheinan society. Theseus tells Hermia, because it is legal for Egeus to kill her if she does not listen to him, she needs to either marry Demetrius or get killed or go to a nunnery.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lysander emphasizes the fact that Demetrius is a player since he has recently been in an affair with Helena. His comment complicates things because <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theseus and Egeus originally thought Demetrius was a fine man. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lysander and Hermia plan to sneak off the wood and get married at Lysander's aunt's place. They tell Helena about this because they think it is an uplifting news for Helena; Helena and Demetrius will be back together again once they're gone. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Helena, despite being Hermia’s best friend and loving Demetrius, decides to tell Demetrius of Hermia and Lysander’s secret plans because she thinks that Demetrius will be so thankful to her for telling him about the plan that he will fall in love with her again.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The poor Hermia does not know what to do. She is given three choices to pick which are provided from her father and Theseus. The first choice is to obey her father and marry Demetrius as his will. The second choice is to be killed by her father by disobeying him, which is legal. The third choice that was given from Theseus is to go to a nunnery and become a nun there. Lysander, her lover, suggests that they should sneak off and get married at his aunt’s house who treats him like a son.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identify Hermia’s basic dilemma. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus and her father? What other choice does Lysander suggest? **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">** __Act I, Scene 2__ **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nick Bottom wants to play all the parts because he is very self-centered and thinks he is the best actor.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The scene is like a comic relief in the story. It shows the faults of plays in general, at the time, and that is why Shakespeare included this scene. His purpose was to criticize the structure and the organization of plays which is funny, because “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is also a play too.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The actors are planning to meet in the palace wood which is exactly where Lysander and Hermia are planning to meet at the same time.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Where are the actors to meet the following night? Who else is meeting there at the same time? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bottom’s acting is overly exaggerated. However, Bottom himself thinks he is a good actor that he can even make the audience cry and laugh whenever he wants to. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__ Act II, Scene 1 __ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How would you describe Bottom’s acting ability? What is Bottom’s own opinion of his acting ability? **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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? **   Oberon and Titania have currently been in an argument and Oberon is mad at Titania.The first fairy thinks of Puck as a mischievous and funny man and they flirt with each other by joking.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens? **  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon had an affair with Hippolyta and Titania had an affiar with Theseus. The reason why they’ve come to Athens is to attend Theseus and Hippolyta 's wedding.

Their quarrel brought all sorts of natural disasters: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “//Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, as in revenge, have sucked up from the sea contagious fogs. Which, falling in the land, have every pelting river made so proud that they have overborne their continents. The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain, the ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn hath rotted, ere his youth attained a beard. The fold stands empty in the drowned field, and crows are fatted with the murrion flock....”//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans? **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon? **  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Titania won’t give up the changeling boy to Oberon because the boy is the son of her very close friend who had died while giving birth to the boy. Titania feels she is responsible for the boy and says she is keeping the boy for her friend’s sake.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. What does Oberon send Puck to find? **  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon sends Puck to find the magic flower that has the power of making one to fall in love with the first creature he sees when the juice of the flower drops on his eyes.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania? **  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon plans to make Titania to fall in love with the first beast she sees by putting the liquid of the magic flower on her eyes while she is sleeping. Then he will make her hand over the changeling boy to him and after he gets the boy, he will redo the spell and at the end everyone would be happy.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse? **  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intelligent Helena reverses everything Demetrius says to her. Examples: //“... For I am sick when I do look on thee."// - Demetrius, //" And I am sick when I look not on you"// - Helena


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse? **  // “Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius! Your wrongs do set a scandal //// on my sex. We cannot fight for love as men may do. We should be wooed and were not made to woo.” // Helena says that he had already hut her in temple, town and field. She says that his behavior is an extreme insult to women and that women do not fight for love as men do.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women? **   Helena argues and talks back to men. Also she tries to convince Demetrius to fall in love with her. All these behaviors were not the right expectation from women in those days.

** 19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena? **  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon tells Puck to squeeze the magic flower into Demetrius's eyes so he would fall in love with Helena.


 * __ Act II, Scene 2 __**


 * 20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing?** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon wants Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing because he is mad at her and wants to revenge by fooling her. He also thinks that he would be  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">able to get the challenging boy by doing such thing.


 * 21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her?** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hermia insists Lysander to sleep away from her since she does not want to misbehave. ( since they are not married yet.)


 * 22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes?** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Puck anoints Lysander's eyes because he misunderstands Demetrius to Lysander.


 * 23. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens?** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Helena thinks Lysander is mocking her and making fun of her obsessive love to Demetrius.

**__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Act III, Scene 1 __**
 * 24. How is Hermia’s dream a reflection of reality?**  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hermia has a nightmare where Lysander laughs and watches her while her heart is being eaten by a serpent. The dream reflects the reality because all of a sudden Lysander is in love with Helena which breaks Hermia's heart.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The actors decide to write a prologue which explains how the play is just a play and they won’t hurt anyone with the sword. The prologue will also include that Pyramus is not actually killing himself and he is in fact, not a real person. They will also tell the audience that the lion is a man and the costume of the lion will have a hole so the face of the actor will be shown. Then the actor with lion role would speak to the audience in a gentle,tender voice.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">25. How are the actors going to keep from scaring the ladies when Pyramus kills himself or when the lion roars? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They will open one of the windows in the big hall so the moonlight will shine in through. Another idea is to have a person to represent Moonshine and go on stage with sticks and a lantern.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">26. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight and the wall? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The actors run off because Bottom appears with a donkey’s head and they think he is a monster.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">27. Why do the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Puck plans to follow the actors and change his form as a horse, hound,pig or a headless bear so the actors would be scared.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">28. What does Puck plan to do when he follows after the other actors? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Bottom happily accepts the way Titania and the fairies treat him and he tries to be funny by making silly jokes.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 29. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> It is an apt statement because until the point, all the relationships reminded are complicated and inexplicable.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 30. Bottom says, "…reason and love keep little company together nowadays." Why is this such an apt statement at this point in the play? **

__** Act III, Scene 2 **__

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 31. What does Hermia accuse Demetrius of doing? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hermia thinks Demetrius has killed Lysander for Lysander was not found after she was awoken from sleep.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Puck and Oberon plan to drop the juice of the magic flower on Demetrius’s eyes so he will fall in love with Helena.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake? **

Helena is upset because she thinks Demetrius is mocking her and making fun of her obsessive love towards him.
 * 33. Why is Helena upset when Demetrius says he loves her? Isn’t this what she had wanted all along?**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Helena thinks Hermia is part of the “game” too. She gets more upset with Hermia than with Lysander or Demetrius for they had been best friends ever since they were little. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">35. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past? ** //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">all the counsel that we two have shared, the sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent When we have chid the hasty-footed time for parting us..........We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry—seeming parted But yet an union in partition— Two lovely berries molded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies but one heart, Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one and crownèd with one crest.” //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 34. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lysander suddenly treats Hermia harshly and disrespectfully. Hermia can’t believe what he is saying to her because just a night before, he was telling her that he loves her more than anything and all of a sudden he is telling her how much he hates her.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">36. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why can’t she believe what he says? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hermia accuses Helena for stealing Lysander’s heart.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 37. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Helena is afraid of Hermia because even if Hermia is smaller than her, she knows how strong and aggressive Hermia is.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 38. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lysander and Demetrius go off to fight over Helena.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 39. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to do? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Oberon tells Puck to get the two men away from each other by faking each of their voices and when they finally give up, undo the spell on Lysander.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 40. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Oberon will ask for the changeling boy and once he gets the boy, he will undo the spell on Titania so that she won’t be in love with Bottom.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 41. What is Oberon going to do about Titania? **

Oberon doesn't fear the coming of day because he believes that everything will work out fine as planned.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 42. Why doesn’t Oberon fear the coming of day? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **43. How well does Puck’s trickery work?** Puck’s trickery works very well as planned; He was able to get the two young men away from each other and anoint Lysander's eyes and reverse the spell. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__** Act IV, Scene 1 **__


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 44. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bottom has adjusted well to the attention of Titania and the fairies; he enjoys being treated like a king.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 45. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon pities Titania for being infatuated with Bottom.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 46. What sort of explanation will Oberon make to Titania’s question about what happened to her? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon ignores Titania’s question and changes subject whenever she asks him about what had happened to her.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 47. Why are Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and the others out in the woods so early in the morning? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They are out in the woods to hunt with their hounds. They have just finished May Day rites and that is why they are out so early.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 48. What is Theseus’s first explanation of why the young people are asleep in the woods? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theseus thinks they had awoken early in the morning to celebrate May Day and came in the woods because they heard Theseus and his crew were coming.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 49. What explanation does Demetrius make? Why does he compare his love for Hermia to an illness? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demetrius explains how they all got into wood and that it was Helena who told him about Hermia and Lysander’s plan to sneak off. He compares his love for Hermia to an illness to show that he loves Helena and that he had recovered from the illness which represents his love to Hermia in this case.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 50. What is Theseus’s decision concerning the four young people? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theseus decides to ignore Egeus’s request and to have a wedding for the three couples.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 51. Why can’t the young people be sure whether they are awake or dreaming? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They are not sure because they do not believe that it had actually happened but they all had the same dream.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 52. Bottom believes he too has had a dream. How is he going to use that to entertain the Duke? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He will ask Quince to write a ballad called “Bottom's Dream” which explains what he has seen and felt in the dream.


 * __<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Act IV, Scene 2 __**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 53. What opinion do the other artisans now have of Bottom since they think he is lost? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All the artisans miss him and thinks he is a great person when they think he is lost.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 54. What do they most regret losing by not being able to perform the play? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They most regret the money which they expect it to be tripled since three couples are being wedded at the same time.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 55. Why must the artisans hurry to the Duke’s palace? **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because the wedding is starting soon.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 31px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Extending the thought process.
====**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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? **====    Based on Bottom’s outer appearance, he seems self-centered and overly confident about himself. However, his lack of knowledge and education can be found in the story and by this readers can tell that he is not well educated or as smart as he tries to be. The inside of him is the exact opposite to his outside look; he is hurt inside and struggles within himself. This can predict the reason he tries to get attention and to sound so smart. Although Bottom does not appear to be kind or sweet, he is loved by many people because he is not as bad as he seems to be. His personality is the exact opposite to Theseus’s since Theseus seems to be powerful, wise and intelligent outside, though inside is full of impatience and fierce.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The dreamers think it was only a dream at first but become confused since they all had the same dream and it was very vivid and realistic. Demetrius is the only one who does not change permanently since he is still in love with Helena even after waking up from the dream. ====**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">c) In this act, several characters look back at prior infatuations with disbelief. What do you think Shakespeare is saying about love and infatuation? **==== <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shakespeare's message is about love being a complicated and inexplicable emotion. He explains how love has numerous different characteristics; it may be an easy, foolish thing or on the other hand, an extremely serious feeling which can lead into infatuations.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">b) How do most of the dreamers respond to the dream experience upon waking? Which character is changed permanently by the dream experience? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **__ Act V __**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">56. Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theseus dismisses the stories of the four young people because he thinks young people can be out of their minds when they are in love and also because the stories don’t matter anyways since everything went the way it was supposed to be.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">57. Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisby rather than the other entertainments? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theseus chooses to see the play about Pyramus and Thisby because he thinks nothing can be bad when it is created by hard workers.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">58. Why does Philostrate try to keep Theseus from seeing the play? What does he say is wrong with it? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Philostrate tells Theseus that the play is not right for the wedding because the scripts aren’t well written nor the actors are playing their roles properly. Also he says of how he cried when Pyramus killed himself, not because it was sad but because it was hilarious.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">59. What does Theseus mean by the lines, "For never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it"? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By saying this Theseus means that nothing can go wrong, or nothing bad will happen, when it is made of simple hard workers.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">60. What is accomplished by having the Prologue tell the whole story that the actors are then going to enact? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing good is accomplished, rather roars of laughter from the audience. The purpose of the Prologue is to warn the ladies in the audience from being scared of violent scenes and lion roaring.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">61. How does Shakespeare use comments from the audience to enhance the humour of the play that they are watching? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By using the comments from the audience, Shakespeare makes the comedy more affective by making readers agree with the commentors.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">62. What is Hippolyta’s reaction to the play? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hippolyta was not inclined to the play before it started but after she enjoyed it.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">63. In what way is Thisby’s final speech humorous? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A man plays Thisby when it is actually a female role.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">64. What does Oberon tell the fairies to do? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon tells the fairies to bless the house with their fairy grace.

=== <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The purpose of Puck’s final speech is to conclude the story. It is also kind of a comic relief for he says if you didn’t enjoy the story just pretend it was only a dream. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Extending the thought process:__ ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 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="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">excessive alliteration : **//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade, ////<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He bravely broach'd his boiling bloody breast." // **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">breaking the play’s illusion of reality: **// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(out of character) No, in truth, sir, he should not. “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="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">** using the wrong word or name: **// " // // Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover’s grace.And like **__Limander__** am I trusty still." // **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">repeating a word excessively: **//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“ O night, O night! Alack, alack, alack,"// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ** ridiculous metaphor: **// "Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade, //// He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast." // === ===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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? === <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From reading off what the audience in the play thinks of the play they are watching really connects to the readers since they can learn and compare the differences and the similarities between them and the audience.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">65. What is the purpose of Puck’s final speech? **

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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? === <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bottom is more of the silly,innocent and clueless character since he does not know very much than he thinks he is, or want to be. The sarcastic,knowing,clever character would be Theseus since he is the intelligent king in the story and they do not have a little argument while the play is being played.

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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? === <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Pyramus and Thisbe” is a tragedy and therefore it is not suitable for a wedding celebration. However the way it was played in the story, is appropriate since this one is more of a comedy. Lysander and Hermia’s situation is very similar to Pyramus and Thisbe ‘s ; both of the couple are forced to be separated by their parents and they decide to meet up at a place to run away. However, Pyramus and Thisbe end up being star crossed lovers and kill themselves. For Lysander and Hermia, they end up getting married together happily. This is very ironic because even if their situations are very similar to each other they each have a total different ending. Completion 25/25  Effort 22/25   Content 22/25   Total 69/75 Podcast 1 - 20/20  Podcast 2 - 19/20