Relationships In A Midsummer Night's Dream
1. As mentioned earlier A Midsummer Night’s Dream contains several different kinds of relationships centering on love. Some of these relationships are characterized by jealousy and power struggles. Make a list of the types of relationship and explain how each is resolved as in the example below:
Type of Relationship Characters Involved Resolution in Act 4
Friendship Bottom and the Athenian tradesmen Bottom, whom they believed lost, returns in 4.2 and the friends prepare to perform their play.
Marriage Titania and Oberon Once Oberon gets the Indian boy he undoes the spell he put on Titania in 4.1. Then Oberon and Titania dance.
Friendship Hermia and Helena In 4.1 Oberon undid the spell and Hermia and Helena fell asleep once they woke up …show more content…
Oberon squeezes the flower juice into Titania’s eyelids Titania wakes up and falls in love with Bottom who has a donkey’s head Oberon squeezes more flower juice into Helenas eyes which undoes the spell.
2. Lysander gets flower juice put into his eyelids Lysander wakes up and falls in love with Helena and leaves Hermia in the woods alone Lysander falls asleep and wakes up thinking that everything was a dream.
3. Demetrius gets flower juice put into his eyelids Demetrius wakes up and falls in love with Helena. Then, he and Lysander both fight. Demetrius also falls asleep and wakes up thinking everything was a dream.
3. As mentioned on the content page, another key theme in this play is that of transformations. As in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, many of the characters change as the plot develops. For instance, Bottom literally becomes an animal. Others take on animal-like characteristics and then revert to acceptable human behaviour later in the play. Some characters even appear to lose their sanity for a time. Make a list of the characters that are transformed in one way or another; indicate what kind of transformation they experience throughout the play. How does all of this connect with the ideas of order mentioned on the content
Type of Relationship Characters Involved Resolution in Act 4
Friendship Bottom and the Athenian tradesmen Bottom, whom they believed lost, returns in 4.2 and the friends prepare to perform their play.
Marriage Titania and Oberon Once Oberon gets the Indian boy he undoes the spell he put on Titania in 4.1. Then Oberon and Titania dance.
Friendship Hermia and Helena In 4.1 Oberon undid the spell and Hermia and Helena fell asleep once they woke up …show more content…
Oberon squeezes the flower juice into Titania’s eyelids Titania wakes up and falls in love with Bottom who has a donkey’s head Oberon squeezes more flower juice into Helenas eyes which undoes the spell.
2. Lysander gets flower juice put into his eyelids Lysander wakes up and falls in love with Helena and leaves Hermia in the woods alone Lysander falls asleep and wakes up thinking that everything was a dream.
3. Demetrius gets flower juice put into his eyelids Demetrius wakes up and falls in love with Helena. Then, he and Lysander both fight. Demetrius also falls asleep and wakes up thinking everything was a dream.
3. As mentioned on the content page, another key theme in this play is that of transformations. As in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, many of the characters change as the plot develops. For instance, Bottom literally becomes an animal. Others take on animal-like characteristics and then revert to acceptable human behaviour later in the play. Some characters even appear to lose their sanity for a time. Make a list of the characters that are transformed in one way or another; indicate what kind of transformation they experience throughout the play. How does all of this connect with the ideas of order mentioned on the content