In the forest, the fairy Puck accidently puts the love potion on Lysnader’s eyes instead of Demetrius’s resulting in Lysander falling in love with Helena. As the night goes on, Lysander and Demetrius both fall in love with Helena, who thinks that they are mocking her, and Hermia challenging Helena to a fight. In the end Puck fixes his mistake, Lysander once again loves Hermia and Demetrius falls for Helena. The two couples marry and go to watch the play.…
I am Kaitlyn Luepann and I am portraying the fairy attendants Peaseblossom, Bottom, Cobweb, and the “jester fairy” Puck From William Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” I will be portraying all these characters as one character with characteristics of all four. The ways I am going to adapt the characters that I am portraying are for me to have a witty sense of humour, yet have common courtesy and manners, and have respectful body language and a humourous tone of voice because the three fairy attendants are very respectful, but Puck is humourous. How I adapt all of the fairies body language and tone of voice from the play to the modern day is to be a respectful Starbucks worker, who cracks jokes in a funny manner while customers…
have you ever been in love, the little feeling you get for someone but you tried but u never succeeded in convincing them into loving you too? In shakespeare they present a theme.A theme is a message that they try to explain in the reading but don't show it. The theme in A Midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare is control. In A Midsummer night's dream there are two character that show control. One of the character that try to control demetrius is helena she loves demetrius but demetrius love hermia. another character is demetrius he passioned hermia but hermia charised lysander.…
In Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, I learned that relationships are tested in situations with drastic outcomes. For example, a scene occurs where Egeus is angry at his daughter Hermia for wanting to marry someone without his consent (22). Egeus then threatens to kill Hermia if she didn't marry Demetrius, the man he gave his consent to. This relates back to the theme because Egeus put his father-daughter relationship on the line so he could get his way. As Egeus said "As she is mine I may dispose of her," meaning he is willing to let his daughter die rather than allow her to marry freely. Another example of this theme occurring is when Helena accuses Hermia of partaking in a prank where Hermia's lovers taunt her (106-107). Helena…
In life people may try to control situations and other people and often do not get the results they wanted. This often happens in the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. The characters plan to control another person’s actions or feelings and ultimately it ends in a chain of bad events or just failure. An example of this is Demetrius, a young man who wants to marry a woman named Hermia. He learns that even if he may consider her hand in marriage his right, controlling her emotions and feelings isn’t possible. Another example is Egeus, the outraged father of Hermia. He wants to force her to marry Demetrius, which results in a chain of events he didn’t anticipate. Overall, Shakespeare shows that controlling someone is often harder than it may seem.…
1. What do you see, hear, and notice for the setting of the play? What Greek and Elizabethan references are present?…
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare is telling the readers that, love needs no reason to exist; it defies logic and ignores all circumstances. This compelling message is very thoroughly communicated with the connection of the fantasy world and reality. The connection occurs in a forest, where each character of significance is, at one point, present. Here, the characters experience unforeseen events, as a result of the debatable use of magic, from those in power. However, despite the extreme unusualness and complications, the characters challenge the circumstances, and persist in loving the one they feel closest to. In this play, this situation is best represented by three significant relationships. The first exists between a lover and her hater, the next involves a young and rebellious couple, and the last concerns an ill-fated mechanical and the queen of the fairies.…
Puck laughs at the lovers: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" (3.2.115). He enjoys watching Lysander chase Helena, calling it a "fond pageant" (3.2.114). He doesn 't feel sorry for the young lovers as Oberon does. Puck enjoys teasing them: "Cupid is a knavish lad, / Thus to make poor females mad" (3.3.28-29). Likewise, Shakespeare doesn 't seem to feel sorry for his characters when he manipulates them to serve the needs of the play. Shakespeare is surely a "knavish lad" when he writes plays like A Midsummer Night 's Dream and encourages the audience to laugh at his characters ' foolishness. When Puck playfully puts all four lovers asleep, reciting nursery rhymes as he does so Ð "Jack shall have Jill, / Nought shall go ill" Ð one can almost hear Shakespeare humming under his breath as he manipulates the characters (3.3.45-46). Shakespeare is mischievous like Puck when he makes Bottom recite the lines, "O night, O night; alack, alack, alack"…
Puck puts the liquor into the young Athenian lovers eyes multiple times. Puck attempts to follow Oberon’s instructions. Puck although is confused and puts it into Lysander’s eyes rather than Demetreous. Puck continues to fix his mistakes, though he only makes it worse. The scene and storyline really shows one can’t choose who one will love for them (III. ii.…
Puck, instead of squeezing the flower juice on Demetrius and making him fall in love with Helena, he squeezed the flower juice on Lysander who was supposed to be in love with Hermia. When Lysander woke up, he saw Helena so that made him fall in love with Helena. This affects him because he said all of those things to her and was supposed…
(Scene opens: Everyone is laying on the ground, as though they are dead, focus on Hypnos.)…
A Midsummer Night Dream is a play written by the late William Shakespeare. This play is about a love triangle how one loves the other when the other does not like them until finally it all ends in a resolution, as they have a secret fairy world looking over at them, this play is almost like a mix between the fantasy world and the real! Bottom is one of the characters in this play, and in this play Bottom is a humorous and confident character, although being intelligent in other fields Bottom is not a very clever or educated man. Bottom and his fellow workmates are named the “rude mechanicals”, unsophisticated men but rather great tradesmen, working not with the mind but with the hands, though Bottom may be labeled a “rude mechanical” in many…
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 Puck puts a love potion first, on Lysander’s eyes and then on Demetrius’s eyes so that the first person they saw when they woke up, they loved. So now both Demetrius and Lysander love Helena. Helena still loves Demetrius and, Hermia still loves Lysander. But now nobody loves Hermia.…
The love of Hippolyta and Theseus is less playful than the four crossed lovers. But it is also less elastic, and lacks the endless sensory allusions that signal trouble. Titania and Oberon, who dwell in the sensory world, can embrace and bless the marriage state but cannot truly achieve it themselves. This triple wedding at the end of the play is not necessarily happy. Essentially, Shakespeare embraces the necessity of law without reveling in it. One cannot live their life in the sensory world without controlling their perception. This control is human reason, and judgement. The beauty of the world, and the capacity of our vision to perceive it, is even greater when we understand what we are seeing and why. A Midsummer Night's Dream is not…
The element of misconception and difficulty in love can be apprehending in the novel when Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth..." (I.I. 136). This quotes analyses that love is never smooth and there are bump and rift throughout. This aspect can be represented when Puck uses the love potion on Lysander by accident and it results to a rift and misconception in love. This can be examined when Lysander says “What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?…