A+Midsummer+Night's+Dream

**__Act I, Scene 1__ **
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 * __1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus?__ **
 * Theseus cannot wait to get married and expresses this by saying “How slow this old moon wanes”, but Hippolyta keeps telling Theseus to be patient by saying “Four nights will quickly dream away the time.” **


 * __2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do?__ **
 * Egeus has a daughter named Hermia that doesn’t want to marry the man that father wants her to marry, so he wants Theseus to give him the right to kill her if she doesn’t follow her father’s orders. And he brings two people, the man who Egeus wants her daughter to marry and another one that Hermia truely loves and wants to marry. **


 * __3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia?__ **
 * In Athenian society, women/daughters have to follow the orders of their fathers. So Hermia has to follow her father’s wish, and if she doesn’t, her father has the right to kill her. **


 * __4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things?__ **
 * Everyone believed that Demetrius only loved Hermia, but after hearing his affair with helena, people are confused. **


 * __5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena?__ **
 * They plan to go live with Lysander’s aunt, who lives outside of Athens, therefore getting away from the old traditions of the Athens, and they tell this to Helena, so they can tell her that she can have Demetrius. **


 * __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?__ **
 * She decides to tell Demetrius the plans of Hermia and Lysander because she believes that Demetrius will be grateful and love her. **


 * __7.__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She is given three choices, one is to marry Demetrius, second is to die, and third is to join the nunnery, to be forever a virgin, never be married. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Act I, Scene 2__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He believes that he is very talented in acting, wanting to play all the parts very “Perfectly”. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nick Bottom says he knows the play very well, yet he doesn’t know a thing. I think Shakespeare included this scene because he wanted to have the audience laugh a little too because the first scene was too serious for a laugh. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The actors were planning to meet in the woods so no one would steal their ideas. Hermia and Lysander were also planning to meet in the woods. **

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **__ **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Act II, Scene 1__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__11.__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">I wouldn’t say that Bottom has a good talent for acting. He believes that he is a very talented actor. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They are not a very happy couple. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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 used to have an affair with Hippolyta and Titania used to have an affair with Theseus. They came to see the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on huma__ ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ns?__ **
 * The more they quarrel, the more they produce evil to human world.**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">The changeling’s mother was a good friend of Titania. And when she gave birth to the boy, she died and she made a promise to take care of the boy. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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 a flower called “Pansies”, which is a flower that was struck by Cupid’s arrow, making it magical. If someone dropped some juice of pansies on their eyelids while they were sleeping, they would fall in love with any first living thing they see after they awake. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">To rub pansies on her eyelids when she sleeps and make her fall in love with a next creature that she sees. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">Demetrius keeps telling her to go away, but she refuses. **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse?__ ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demetrius threatens her that he will do mischief in the woods, but she is saying that he had already did mischief to her. **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women?__ ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Athenian women are supposed to be won over by men, but Helena is trying to get Demetrius to love her. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena?__ ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon tells puck to drop the juice of pansies on Demetrius’ eyelids mad make him fall in love with Helena. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Act II, Scene 2__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon is wanting to get revenge of Titania because she gives the attention and love th the changeling, something that Oberon desires from her. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She believes that they shouldn’t sleep together because they are not married yet. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes?__ ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes because they were sleeping away from each other, giving an impression that they were not in love. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__23. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Helena thinks Lysander is playing a joke on her. **

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__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;">In her dream, a serpent had stroke her heart. In reality, Lysander broke her heart. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Act III, Scene 1__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">The actors decided to write an epilogue stating that Pyramus is just Bottom and the lion is not a lion, but just a man in a costume.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">When the actors checked the calendar, the moon was going to shine that night, so they decided to leave the window open for the moonlight effect. And for the wall, they were planning to have a man covered in a plaster, and make a circle with their fingers, pretending that to be the crack on the wall.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">Suddenly Bottom has a head of an ass (Donkey).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">Puck thinks that they are playing a trick on him, but he decides not to be scared and sings.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">Bottom is surprised to see Titania and the other fairies and try to run away at first.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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?__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Love usually happens without any explanation. For example, even with a pansies squeezed to one’s eyelids, they only fall in love, they have no idea why.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Act III, Scene 2__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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 accuse Demitrius for murdering Lysander.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake?__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They are going to squeeze the pansies juice Demetrius and make him fall in love with Helena.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__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;">It is what she wanted, but it is so unexpected, that she thinks they are mocking her.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">Helena accuses Hermia mocking her with two men, Lysander and Demetrius.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">They had been very close friends, like double cherry, seeming parted but yet in union.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">Lysander calls Hermia names like acorn, vile thing, and a serpent.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">Hermia accuses Helena of seducing Lysander to fall in love with her.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">Helena is afraid that Hermia is going to hurt her.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">Because only one can have Helena, they decided to fight each other for her.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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 tells Puck to make them fall asleep, and lead Helena to Demetrius. Then squeeze the pansies juice on Lysander’s eyes and make him fall in love with Hermia.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__41. What is Oberon going to do about Titania?__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Get the changeling child from her, and while she is sleeping, squeeze the pansies juice on her eyelids and wake her.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;">Oberon believes that they are “the spirits of another sort”, and not affected by the sun.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__43. How well does Puck’s trickery work?__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The men fall asleep and Puck squeezes the pansies juice on lysander’s eyelids, and the plan works perfectly. ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Review Question: The climax, or turning point, of A Midsummer Night’s Dream comes at the end of Act 3. In point form describe the major plot points of Act Three starting from when Titania falls in love with Bottom leading to the climax or turning point of the play near the end of act three.__ ==== ____  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Act IV, Scene 1__ ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__44. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies?__ ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bottom starts to act like he is the king of the fairies. **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__45. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom?__ ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He acts like he is happy, but he is actually feeling bad watching them. **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t think he will go to any details that has to do with the pansies juice. **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They are getting ready for the wedding, to make sure it goes as planned. **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That they have come early for the wedding. **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Titania falls in love with Bottom.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Puck reports the results to Oberon, and they watch Demetrius and Hermia.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hermia accuses Demetrius for murdering Lysander and leaves him.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demetrius falls asleep.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon and Puck Realize that they made a mistake
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon anoints Demetrius’ eyelids with pansies juice.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demetrius wakes up and falls in love with Helena.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hermia finds them.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Demetrius and Lysander decide to fight for Helena.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oberon tells Puck to anoint Lysander’s eyes and make him fall in love with Hermia.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He is comparing sickness and love for Hermia, then states that he got better from the illness and love Helena now. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__50. What is Theseus’s decision concerning the four young people?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theseus decides to hold the wedding for 3 people. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They all remember the same thing, but it is too bizarre. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He is going to tell Peter Quince about the “Dream” and tell him to write a ballad and say them at the play right before Bottom (Pyramus) kills himself. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Act IV, Scene 2__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They miss him, and wishes that he was here as a friend. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because there are 3 wedding, they will be paid more if they performed the play, but they can’t. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__55. Why must the artisans hurry to the Duke’s palace?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bottom is back, and the Duke is returning to the palace, so they can perform the play now. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Extending the thought process.__
====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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?__ ==== **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From this, I think that Bottom wanted attention, to be loved. As act 4 started, he was receiving all the attention from the fairies. In the end, he thought he was dreaming and wanted to make a ballad out of this dream called "Bottom's dream". Not only representing his dream from his sleep, but what he wanted. His dream is to be loved. In some ways, Theseus and Bottom are different because Theseus is more of a well mannered man who is just about to get married, when Bottom is a very hyper man who seeks attention **

====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Most of the dreamers think that they have been dreaming, but they remember well what happened. In my opinion, I think Demetrius is the one that has been permanently changed by the “Dream” because others still love who they used to, Demetrius is the only one who changed his love. ** ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think Shakespeare is trying to say that love can sometimes happen for no reason; it is not always lovers never have a logical minds. **  __ **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- ** __ **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Act V__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__56. Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He believes that their story is “More strange than true” **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__57. Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisbe rather than the other entertainments?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The other ones were already heard or not fit for the wedding. The title was “A tedious brief scene of Pyramus and Thisbe” which was an oxymoron and he described it as “Hot ice” **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“It is nothing in the world” and “Extremely stretched and conned with cruel pain.” **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If something is simple as a play, there is a low chance of failures. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because they didn’t practice very much, many mistakes can be made. Therefore, if they make a mistake, they can still know the plot. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These comments are about the obvious mistakes that are noticed and made by the performers. By saying them, it shows how disastrous the play was **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__62. What is Hippolyta’s reaction to the play?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hippolyta doesn’t like the play and think it is silly. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__63. In what way is Thisbe’s final speech humorous?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Thisbe” is saying “And farewell friends” when in the play, noone is around them. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__64. What does Oberon tell the fairies to do?__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To bless the married couples. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He speaks to the audience (Real ones, not in the play) to tell others about the play and if they hated the play to excuse them. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Extending the thought process:__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; 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; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__excessive alliteration__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Cut thread and thrum; Quail, crus, conclude, and quell!” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;"> When Bottom says, “No, in truth, sir, he should not. “Deceiving me” is Thisbe’s cue.” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__using the wrong word or name__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I see a voice. Now will I to the chink, To spy and I can hear my Thisbe’s face.” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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;"> “Now die, die, die, die, die” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__ridiculous metaphor:__ **

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The relationship between the actors and the audience is like friendship. People are free to talk to each other **

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Abbott and Costello, Peter and Brian from Family Guy, American Dad. **

===<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; 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; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pyramus and Thisbe is about love, but has a sad ending where two lovers die. The marriage is to wish that the lovers will live long, but the conclusion is about the lovers dying. At one point, Hippolyta says “This is the silliest thing I’ve ever heard.” The story of the two lovers are also silly to other people. **