midsummerdream+queastions

A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

COMPLETION 2/10 EFFORT 2/10 CONTENT 2/10 TOTAL 6/30

Act I, Scene 1 1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus?

2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do?

3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia?

4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things?

5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena?

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?

7. Identify Hermia’s basic dilemma. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus and her father? What other choice does Lysander suggest?

Act I, Scene 2 8. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts? because he thinks he is the best

9. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene?the scene is funny because peter quince has to keep making excuses to tell bottom why he cant be all the parts. i think shakes spear put it in because he probably wants to mock greek plays and to prove a point

10. Where are the actors to meet the following night? Who else is meeting there at the same time? the actors are meeting in the forest Lysnder and Hermia

11. How would you describe Bottom’s acting ability? What is Bottom’s own opinion of his acting ability? bottoms acting skills are pretty good but he thinks he is the best.

**Podcast Assignment**
==**Act 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes place in the daytime, but it contains many images of the moon that foreshadow the night to come. Using GarageBand record yourself reading the lines in Act 1 that illustrate the imagery of night/moon. Share to iTunes and upload the mp3 to your wikispace.** == media type="file" key="midsummerdream.mp3" width="240" height="20"

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Act II, Scene 1

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?

11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens?

12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans?

13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon?

14. What does Oberon send Puck to find? oberon sent puck to find a flower that cupid hit with his arrow.

15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania?

16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse?

17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse?

18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women?

19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena?

Act II, Scene 2 20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing?

21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her?

22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes?

23. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens?

24. How is Hermia’s dream a reflection of reality?

=**Creating the Magical Mood and Atmosphere of Act 2** =

**In pairs, use Garage Band to produce the introduction of Act 2 Scene 2.. Use sound effects to create the magical and mysterious mood of the opening. Record the text up to line 34. Create the music to go with the lyrics of the Fairies Song. Upload to your wiki.**

25. How are the actors going to keep from scaring the ladies when Pyramus kills himself or when the lion roars? they are going to tell the crowed that he doesn't actually kill him self and that the lion isn't real and they are going to show part of the person so nobody thinks its real
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26. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight and the wall? they are going t use props and what they have. the wall they are going to dress up one of them to make it look like a wall and he is going to hold his fingers in a o shape to make it like the hole in the wall. and the moon light they are going to us the actual moon threw a window this is why they checked if it is going to be a full moon. also if they didnt have the moon they were going to have a man in a bush holding a light.

27. Why do the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears? they all run away when bottom comes back because he has the head of an ass.

28. What does Puck plan to do when he follows after the other actors?

29. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies?

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 31. What does Hermia accuse Demetrius of doing?

32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake?

33. Why is Helena upset when Demetrius says he loves her? Isn’t this what she had wanted all along?

34. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia?

35. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past?

36. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why can’t she believe what he says?

37. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena?

38. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia?

39. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to do?

40. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men?

41. What is Oberon going to do about Titania?

42. Why doesn’t Oberon fear the coming of day?

43. How well does Puck’s trickery work? ====**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.** ====

===**Podcast: Shakespeare plays with ideas of vision, of blindness, and of different ways of interpreting what one sees. Podcast, with music the lines in Act Three that deal with this imagery.** === || ||   ||
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