Bottom: Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret yourself too much in the action, mounsieur; and, good mounsieur, have a care the honey-bag break not; I would be loath to have you overflown with a honey-bag, signior. Where's Mounsieur Mustardseed?
This scene is where Bottom, the ass, believes himself to be just as king of the forest, as Titania's lover. He is ordering around her servants, sounding just as much as a pompous ass as his character is in the majority of the play. This is a good example of his own self-importance, much as when he tries to play all parts of his play. I enjoy Bottom's character and the use of the weaver in the play. His is my favorite quote in the entire play, where he speaks of Bottom's dream.
HERMIA What's this to my Lysander? where is he? Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?
DEMETRIUS I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.
This scene is when Lysander runs away with Helena while Hermia is asleep. This shows Hermia's love for Lysander and Demetrius's hate for Lysander. Although this is not a change of either of their characters this shows Demetrius's chance to try to get Hermia to fall in love with him. It also shows the shift from normal to absurd.
Lysander: "My lord, I shall reply amazedly, half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear, I cannot truly say how I came here; but as I think,--for truly would I speak, and now do I bethink me, so it is,--I came with Hermia hither: our intent was to be gone from Athens, where we might, without peril of the Athenian law."
In this scene Theseus and Egeus find Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, and Lysander in the forest the next morning. By now, Oberon has had Puck reverse the effects of the love potion on everyone. Hermia and Lysander are inlove with eachother again. Also, Demetrius realizes that it isn't Hermia he loves, but it's Helena that he loves. So, if Hermia and Lysander hadn't stolen off into the forest to run away, Demetrius wouldn't have realised his feellings toward Helena before it was too late or he would've never realised he felt that way. So, all the events leading up to this quote and after it, make the characters develop into stronger people and it strengthens their feelings toward eachother. This is where you can finally see, that everything that happened to them, has made them smarter and more open to their feelings.
Helena: O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment: If you we re civil and knew courtesy, You would not do me thus much injury. Can you not hate me, as I know you do, But you must join in souls to mock me too?
This is the scene where Demetrius and Lysander both have been enchanted to fall in love with Helena. She reacts horribly, thinking it all a plot against her. I thought it was kind of unfair and hypocritical of herself. Although I too would be suspicious if a guy who told me he hated me my whole life suddenly worshiped the ground i walked on, Helena was pleading in the play for Demetrius to use her any way he wised, no matter if he wanted to beat or kill her. Ridiculous words, but that was how Helena felt at the time. Yet when Demetrius turns around and shows her unexpected affection she grows surly and angry, refusing his attentions. If her earlier words had really been true than no matter how he treated her she should have been grateful, but as soon as she gets a taste of what she asked for Helena balks and refuses any more, taking back her "devotional loving words".
So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition; Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart -Helena
Helena is describing her and Hermia's relationship how it was in the time before their was a conflict of men. I think that this is an interesting aspect to Helena's character because it seems as though she is driven by one thing and one thing only; Demetrius and his love, it seemed before she scorned Hermia for taking this love away from her and resented her for being the interest of Demetrius. But to bring in to question the relationship of the two women, and how love and the fight for men can ruin a strong bond is brought up, but quickly discounted and the fight continues.
HERMIA What, can you do me greater harm thatn hate? Hate me? Wherefore? O me! What news, my love? Am not I Hermia? Are you not Lysander? I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Since night you loved me. Yet since night you left me. Why then, you left me- Oh, the gods forbid!- In earnest, shall I say?
LYSANDER Ay, by my life, And never did desire to see thee more. Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt. Be certain, nothing truer. 'Tis no jest That I do hate thee and love Helena.
This quote is after Robin makes the mistake of sprinkling the love potion on Lysander's eyes, rather than Demetrius'. In result, Lysander falls in love with Helena. Hermia is confused what caused Lysander to lose the passion he had for her just the previous night, and Lysander is telling her to give up hope because he never wants to see her again. The mistake leads into the rest of the story, where Oberon and Robin try to straighten out who loves who, so that they are all happy.
BOTTOM "No assure you; the wall is down that parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of our company?" THESEUS: "No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all dead, there needs none to be blamed."
This excerpt from A Midsummer Nights Dream comes from Act V after the Athenian performers have finished their short play at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Bottom asks Theseus if he would wish to hear an epilogue for the play because he is unsure of the crowds reaction to their work. This signifies how unsure the playwright and actors were of their work in terms of Theseus' reaction and Theseus' response signifies that he was indeed pleased with their efforts. He implies that the acting team needs no excuse and that they are far from mediocre, as they may have thought themselves to be.
Oberon: I wonder if Titania is awake yet, and if she is. i wonder what the first thing she saw was. Whatever it is, she must be completely in love with it now.
this quote is about Oberon's scheme to make Titania fall in love with the first thing that she sees so that he could steal her little changeling boy unhindered. In doing this he makes her fall in love with him and in the end they run away together to fairy land.
Helena: O spite!O hell! I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment If you were civil and knew courtesy, You would not do me thus much injury. Can you not hate me, as I know you do, But you must join in souls to mock me too? If you were men, as men you are in show, You would not use a gentle lady so To vow,and swear, and superpraise my parts, When i am sure you hate me with your hearts...
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This relates to the rest of the story because this is where it gets really interesting and the men have woken up and now are in love with Helena instead of Hermia. This is where the plot thickens and the beginning of where everything gets all mixed up. Since they were both fighting over Hermia and then the fairies were trying to make it so that only one loved Hermia and one loved Helena but Puck messes it up and and puts the potion in both Demetrius and Lysanders eyes and then they both fall for Helena. From here on the rest of the plot is trying to get everything back to normal or how they originally wanted to change it.
I chose a quote that was said by Titania, but i read it in class. "Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed while i thy amiable cheeks do coy, and stick musk roses in thy sleek, smooth head, and kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy." this was the part in the play when Titania woke up and fell in love with the first man she saw. this person just so happened to be a rabbit looking creature. the reason why i chose this quote was because the entire play was about love and how by putting flower juice on someones eyes, they will fall in love with the first person they see, not true love, and that is shown by Titania falling in love with a rabbit. After she realized what she had done and what not, she felt foolish and her and another man fell for eachother.
HELENA: We grew together, Like a double cherry seeming parted, But yet an union in partition; Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So with two seeming bodies, But one heart
This quote by Helena is directed towards Helan and Hermia's relationship. I believe this is describing the relationship that they had acquired befor the "man" troubles. This is interesting, and very realistic; how a man can ruin such a great friendship and bond. Helena's focus switch from Hermia to her lover, Demetrius. It makes you question how the friendship will turn out in the end of the story, and if they will every speak in the same way that they had, or if they will be torn apart by men and love.
Regan McComb Period 6 Demetrius: O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! to what, my love, shall i compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. Oh, how ripe in show thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! That pure congealed white, high Taurus' snow, Fanned with the eastern wind, turns to a crow when thou hold'st up thy hand. Oh, let me kiss this princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!
This quote relates to the rest of the plot because it shows how in love with Helena Demetrius is at one point. But the people are always changing their minds on who they love at on time in the play. Everything gets mixed up because Demetrius and Lysander both fall in love with Hermia at first but then suddenly change their minds when the stuff is put on their eyelids and they both go for Helena. This quote just shows how much Demetrius is in love with Helena after everything got changed around.
Oberon: What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight: Of thy misprision must perforce ensue Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.
I thought this quote by oberon was very good becuase this is the beginning to the tragic confusion. If Oberon put the posion into the right person in the first place there would have been no confusion. However, he realizes this and regrets his action. I thoguth this quote really explained what was going on in the play at that time becuase people can now predict what was going to happen next. Which was confusion and hate.
Bottom: Nothing, good mounsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb to scratch. I must to the barber's, monsieur; for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me,I must scratch.
This quote shows Shakespeare making fun of Bottom a character that is constantly the butt of his jokes. During this part of the play Bottom of course has the form of an ass because of the fairies mischief. His statement is thus very ironic because he doesn't fully comprehend the fact that he is an ugly ass. He remarks that his face feels particularly hairy and even compares himself to an ass which he is. This is just an example of the mess that the fairies created in the woods and how hilarious it all is. Misunderstandings like that are the foundation of much of Shakespeare's humor in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In this quote, Puck expresses his amazement at the Athenian’s foolish behavior. This line is relative to the rest of the story in terms of plot by portraying the story’s brilliant humor as well as for the reason that the line embodies the silliness of the lovers’ behavior. It also marks the contrast between the humorous fairies and the lovesick humans. The character Puck in general captures the fairies’ impish behavior and this is one quote that perfectly portrays such behavior.
Act IV, Scene 1, Lines 69-73 OBERON: Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see. Dian’s bud, o’er Cupid’s flower, Hath such force and blessed power. Now, my Titania, wake you, my sweet queen.
The lines above are the short incantation that Oberon speaks as he pours juice into Titania’s eyes. Oberon’s speedy change of heart after his pranking of Titania bespeaks the mischievous and flighty nature of Shakespeare’s fairies. Though the fairy king had been full of malicious intent when he originally ordered that Titania be made to fall in love with a beast, he completely changed how he felt about his queen in the same night. Oberon must not be a creature that firmly sets its mind if he changed from love to hate and back in only a few hours. That same flighty fey nature is clear when Titania wakes after these lines as well. She seems to completely forget about her embarrassing ass infatuation and falls quickly in love with Oberon again. Where many humans would bear a grudge for being the butt of a cruel prank, the fairy queen is content to reverse her thinking just so she can be happy again. Shakespeare’s fairies are clearly indecisive and emotional creatures considering the speed with which they change their minds. If you said they have a kind of emotional ADD, you wouldn’t be far from the truth.
PUCK My mistress with a monster is in love. Near to her close and consecrated bower, While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, That work for bread upon Athenian stalls, Were met together to rehearse a play Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day. The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort, Who Pyramus presented, in their sport Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake When I did him at this advantage take, An ass's nole I fixed on his head: Anon his Thisbe must be answered, And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, Rising and cawing at the gun's report, Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky, So, at his sight, away his fellows fly; And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls; He murder cries and help from Athens calls. Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong, Made senseless things begin to do them wrong; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch; Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch. I led them on in this distracted fear, And left sweet Pyramus translated there: When in that moment, so it came to pass,Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
Explanation:
My mistress Titania is in love with a monster. While she was sleeping in her bed of flowers, a group of idiots, rough workmen from Athens, got together nearby to rehearse a play they plan to perform on Theseus's wedding day. The stupidest one, who played Pyramus in their play, finished his scene and went to sit in the bushes to wait for his next cue. I took that opportunity to stick a donkey's head on him. When it was time for him to go back onstage and talk to Thisbe, he came out of the bushes and everyone saw him. His friends ran away as fast as ducks scatter when they hear a hunter's gunshot. One of them was so frightened when he heard my footsteps that he yelled, “Murder!” and called for help from Athens. They were all so afraid that they completely lost their common sense. They started to become scared of inanimate objects, terrified by the thorns and briars that catch at their clothing and pull off their sleeves and hats. I led them on in this frightened, distracted state, and left sweet Pyramus there, transformed into someone with a donkey's head. At that exact moment, Titania woke up and immediately fell in love with him, an ass.
Act IV, Scene 1 Bottom: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was
Bottom says this when he first wakes up in the morning. He thinks about what he saw that night, and his meeting with Titania. He thinks it was a dream, but it was unbelievably real. This relates to the rest of the story because that entire night seemed like a dream to all the human characters. So many strange things happened to them. Maybe thats why the title is called a Midsummer Night's DREAM." Everyone thought it was a dream.
Helena: I'm not sticking around here any more. I don't trust you. You might be a better fighter than I am, but my legs are longer and I can run away faster.
This is when the two girls were fighting and fell into the mud and were in an argument about who was trying to sabotage the other. To me this showed at that point that Helena was the weaker of the two because she was running. But later on in the play when things got straightened out and the people were in love with who they were supposed to be in love with they both seemed equally strong or an equally important character to the play.
This is the scene where Helena and Hermia are talking and this is right before Hermia and Lysander tell Helena that they are going to run away together. Helena is upset because she wants Demetrius but he wants Hermia. It is so true what they say because often times people want what they can't have which is true for all the characters, and for Demetrius, what he can have which is Helena is what he really doesn't want. This gives insight into all the characters actions and desires.
May all to Athens back again repair And think no more of this night's accidents But as the fierce vexation of a dream. But first I will release the fairy queen.
This is when Bottom wakes up and realizes that he has been abandoned in the woods and Oberon tells Titania that he will remember all of it as a dream. It is an important quote in the play because of the way Bottom deals with his nightmare. He turns it in to a fun song ('Bottom's Dream') instead of being scared of it. He then returns to Athens. This is showing that we can turn out worst fears into humor.
When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho! Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout, the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there is no man can tell what. Methought I was,--and methought I had,--but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the duke: peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death.
This quote is Bottom waking up after he fairy queen realizes what has happened, and has sent him away. In the first line, he wakes up and still thinks that he is practicing the play with his company. Then, he realizes where he is, and begins to remember. First he blames the vision in his head on a dream, but then wonders if they are real. Eventually, he decides that he would be crazy if he thought any of it was real, and is sure that it must have been a dream. He decides to write down his dream in the form of a ballad.
Puck: Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth, A million fail, confouding oath on oath.
This quote from Act 3 Scene 2 is a good quote that relates to the rest of the play because by the end of the book, everything works out well. Demetrius and Helena end up wedding, same with Lysander and Hermia, and Bottom and the rest of his group, through trials and terbulations, end up being the chosen group of actors that perform at the wedding for the three couples. Everything ends up working out in the end for everybody.
Theseus: Fair lovers, you are fortunately met: Of this discourse we more will hear anon. Egeus, I will overbear your will; For in the temple by and by with us These couples shall eternally be knit:
This quote is significant as it confirms that the play will end happily. Theseus gives approval for the marriage of Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius and Helena after finding the two couples together in the woods. This part of the play effectively ends all the conflict and relationship issues from earlier on and leads into the series of weddings that conclude the play.
QUINCE You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man: therefore you must needs play Pyramus.
This point in the show is when Peter Quince is telling Bottom that he can only play the part of Pyramus in the play "Pyramus & Thisbe". Throughout this scene Bottom basically trying to convince Quince to make it a one man show because Bottom seems to think he can play all of the parts. This is a great show of character for Bottom because he is very outrageous and loud. Bottom has a large ego which becomes even more clear later in the show when the fairy queen, Titania, falls in love with them. When the other fairies begin to attend to him, he acts like it was how he should be treated. The quote from Midsummer is also great because the soft spoken Quince, he spoke up and put Bottom in his play like he need to be. Another reason this quote is great is while Peter Quince set things straight in the mind of Bottom, he also stroked his ego, just like Bottom likes it.
This quote basically shows how mortals or humans react with love. How stupid and silly they behave when they have love right in front of them. They get so absorbed in there emotions that they become someone completely different. And that’s exactly how the characters behave throughout the whole play.
"did you not say that i would know the Athenian by the clothes that he wore" - Puck to Oberon
By this mistake made by puck we were able to witness and enjoy how Lysander/Hermia and Demetrius/Helena came to be as couples. With the hatred, jealousy, confusion and love. It made it so that not only did Oberon realize that his fun with Titania should end, but that not everything is all fun and games.
Quote: "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended: That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear; And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend."
This quote is at the end of the play, its an extention of a theme that has been going througout the whole thing. That you continue to dream throughout the play. Lots of things that happened during the play were "dream like" like fairies and so forth. I think its interesting that he sort of steps out of character at the end and tells the audience really not to take things so seriously, and if they have then to continue on as if it were a "dream". I think it wraps everything to an end real nicely.
Act IV, Scene 1 Bottom: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was
This is what Bottom says when he first wakes up in the morning. He remembers the happenings from the previous night, and his meeting with Titania. He is convinced that it was all a dream, but at the same time he knows how unbelievably real it seemed. The human characters were all so absorbed in the story that even though they are sure that it was a dream.
Oberon says "I wonder if Titania is awake yet, and if she is. i wonder what the first thing she saw was. Whatever it is, she must be completely in love with it now".
i think that this is showing that Oberon wants titania to be in love with the first thing that she will see when she wakes up. It seems that Oberon isnt very sneaky and keniving because of the way he steals titania and gets her to fall in love with him.
Bottom:"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."
This is when Bottom awakens from his slumber and realizes he is not in the forest anymore, but he is back to being a human. He is confused if his experience in the forest was real or just a dream. He is also trying to understand his strange encounter with Titania. He talks about past the wit of man, because any other man would think it was just a dream, but he knows it was a real experience and he is going to take it to heart.
"Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'd house: I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the door."- Puck
This quote summarizes Puck's role in the story. he is the one who does the dirty work for everyone else. He goes back and forth for Oberon fetching things and carrying out Oberon's plans.
"Think but this, and all is mended: That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear." -Puck
This quote shows how Puck fixes things. Puck is the 'mender' of the things that happen or go amiss in the fairy world. Puck is saying that the sights they saw were dreams and they have nothing to worry about. All they know is that they dreamt whatever they saw or did.
" We grew together, Like a double cherry seeming parted, But yet an union in partition; Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So with two seeming bodies, But one heart"
I found this quote by Helena very interesting, its describes Helans and Hermias relationship before there "man" troubles occurred. After reading this I was very curious to see how things would turn out in the end and if love and men would come between their friendship.
Jacob Carpenter Period 4 Demetrius: O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. Oh, how ripe in show thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! That pure congealed white, high Taurus' snow, Fanned with the eastern wind, turns to a crow when thou hold'st up thy hand. Oh, let me kiss this princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!
I think this quote relates to the plot very well because it shows the level of love which was expressed with Helena Demetrius at one point. Also the people are always switching thoughts on who they love at different times throughout the play. Then things are starting to fall out of place because Demetrius and Lysander both fall in love with Hermia then when the substance is put on their eyelids they both go for Helena. This quote reflects on the strong bond and love which Demetrius had with Helena after everything got mixed up.
Helena: I'm not sticking around here any more. I don't trust you. You might be a better fighter than I am, but my legs are longer and I can run away faster.
This quote is when the two girls are fighting in the mud and arguing about who is trying to mess with the other. I thought this was pretty funny because its girls mud wrestling which is pretty much the main attraction at college parties. I thought it was pretty cool how old plays such as these use things that we in todays times view as party fun. But anyways, I thought that this quote xhows how Helena isn't too strong. She is straight up saying that she is weak comparitively and is a wuss cause she is saying she can just run away from it all. But as everything worked itself out, ahe seemed just as strong as a character as everyone else.
Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together; good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look over his part; for the short and the long is, our play is preferred.
This is when bottom came back from his fairy land and he had made a play that was supposed to be performed. All of his(I love you Schindler)peers kept asking where he was and what he was doing, but all he told them was to get dressed in their best clothes and make everything as good as possible(do you actually read these?)because that night was going to be epic.
Bottom: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was
Bottom wakes up in the morning after his night with Titania. He awakes thinking it was all just a dream he had. This relates to the rest of the story because the whole story is about the wrong people falling for the wrong person and then it being corrected. The whole night to all the humans just seemed like a dream.
Puck: If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear.
This quote shows the dramatic irony that the fairies know that what happened to the mortals is perceived as a dream but actually happened and is also a twist from Shakespeare that calls to the knowledge that the audience is merely seeing a play. The idea that Puck knows it is a play brings up the idea that he is wiser than all of the other characters because he knows that he is, in fact, a fictional character. One of the themes of the play is the absurdity of life and love and this quote exposes that absurdity and pokes fun at the play as a metaphor for life. Shakespeare is able to close the play on a note of irony by showing the witty Puck to be smarter than all of the other characters. This quote shows Puck to be more than impish and whimsical, but in fact a very intelligent and wise player in this short farce. Any incident in the human life can be viewed as a dream in a larger subconscious state of another being. If reality is merely electrical signals interpreted by the brain, then every reality is merely a dream. This play just happens to be one of the midsummer night variety.
"But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness."
Theseus speaking to Hermia This scene to me is very dark and scary. One of the things that turns me off about playes is when you feel like you dont want to be a part of it, and its too odd to listen to or read. This part of the play is very up and down. I feel like that the story goes up in key and then the mood keeps uprising and then when the which withers it gets scarry and then the story falles and then it begins to go uprising again and then the story hits a climax and then falles again.
Bottom: I had a most rare dream. A dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about t'expound this dream. Methought I was, and me thought I had-but man is a patched fool in he will offer to say what methought I had.
This is the scene where Bottom woke up after being changed back to a man and is wondering if he should tell somone about it. He later decides to tell peter quince to make a play about it called Bottom's Dream because it hath no bottom.
Andrew Kemis Period 6 Theseus: No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all dead, there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he that writ it had played Pyramus and hanged himself in Thisbe's garter, it would have been a fine 2205 tragedy: and so it is, truly; and very notably discharged. But come, your Bergomask: let your epilogue alone.
This quote happens at the end of the play after they have perfomed the play. Theseus is commending them for thier good work. Theseus' daughter is envolved in a love triangle. It is only after the show that the triangle is unwound into two straight lines. While the love triangle is taking place, a group of actors had been putting on a play. This play is the one that is poerformed for Theseus. It's rehearshals are incorporated into the lover's triangle.
Bottom:"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."
This relates to the story because this was Bottom's reaction to his dream when he first wakes up in the morning. It was all to real for him, he thinks about his night with Titania and reflects on his thoughts.
Lion: "Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of our company?"
Theseus: "No epilogue, I pray you; for the play needs no excuse."
This is an excerpt from a Midsummer Nights dream when the theater company finished their play. This has to do with the plot because it shows how unsure the actors were of how they performed and if the audience understood their plot. Theseus reassures them on a wonderful effort.
BOTTOM "No assure you; the wall is down that parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of our company?" THESEUS: "No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all dead, there needs none to be blamed."
This excerpt from A Midsummer Nights Dream comes from Act V after the Athenian performers have finished their short play at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Bottom asks Theseus if he would wish to hear an epilogue for the play because he is unsure of the crowds reaction to their work. This signifies how unsure the playwright and actors were of their work in terms of Theseus' reaction and Theseus' response signifies that he was indeed pleased with their efforts. He implies that the acting team needs no excuse and that they are far from mediocre, as they may have thought themselves to be.
" Man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was." -Bottom
This the scene right after bottom wakes up after having a donkey head. He believes that it was all a dream but won't tell anyone because of how crazy it sounds. This relates to the story because most of it was with the faries and no one other than the faries knows what happened. Almost everyone else dismisses this night as a dream also because of all the weird things that happened. One moral of this story is that love is blind because the couples don't questions why demetrius suddenly love Helena and Bottom doesn't question why he had a donkey head. Although this was an important night to the humans it was just like any other night. So like a dream this night was unimportant.
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Tess Opincarne
Period 6
Bottom: Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your
weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped
humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good
mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret
yourself too much in the action, mounsieur; and,
good mounsieur, have a care the honey-bag break not;
I would be loath to have you overflown with a
honey-bag, signior. Where's Mounsieur Mustardseed?
This scene is where Bottom, the ass, believes himself to be just as king of the forest, as Titania's lover. He is ordering around her servants, sounding just as much as a pompous ass as his character is in the majority of the play. This is a good example of his own self-importance, much as when he tries to play all parts of his play. I enjoy Bottom's character and the use of the weaver in the play. His is my favorite quote in the entire play, where he speaks of Bottom's dream.
Kyle Glaser
Period 2
HERMIA
What's this to my Lysander? where is he?
Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?
DEMETRIUS
I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.
This scene is when Lysander runs away with Helena while Hermia is asleep. This shows Hermia's love for Lysander and Demetrius's hate for Lysander. Although this is not a change of either of their characters this shows Demetrius's chance to try to get Hermia to fall in love with him. It also shows the shift from normal to absurd.
Sara McCallum
Period 6
Act 4: Scene 1
Lysander: "My lord, I shall reply amazedly, half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear, I cannot truly say how I came here; but as I think,--for truly would I speak, and now do I bethink me, so it is,--I came with Hermia hither: our intent was to be gone from Athens, where we might, without peril of the Athenian law."
In this scene Theseus and Egeus find Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, and Lysander in the forest the next morning. By now, Oberon has had Puck reverse the effects of the love potion on everyone. Hermia and Lysander are inlove with eachother again. Also, Demetrius realizes that it isn't Hermia he loves, but it's Helena that he loves. So, if Hermia and Lysander hadn't stolen off into the forest to run away, Demetrius wouldn't have realised his feellings toward Helena before it was too late or he would've never realised he felt that way. So, all the events leading up to this quote and after it, make the characters develop into stronger people and it strengthens their feelings toward eachother. This is where you can finally see, that everything that happened to them, has made them smarter and more open to their feelings.
Rebecca Taicz
Period 6
Helena: O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent
To set against me for your merriment:
If you we re civil and knew courtesy,
You would not do me thus much injury.
Can you not hate me, as I know you do,
But you must join in souls to mock me too?
This is the scene where Demetrius and Lysander both have been enchanted to fall in love with Helena. She reacts horribly, thinking it all a plot against her. I thought it was kind of unfair and hypocritical of herself. Although I too would be suspicious if a guy who told me he hated me my whole life suddenly worshiped the ground i walked on, Helena was pleading in the play for Demetrius to use her any way he wised, no matter if he wanted to beat or kill her. Ridiculous words, but that was how Helena felt at the time. Yet when Demetrius turns around and shows her unexpected affection she grows surly and angry, refusing his attentions. If her earlier words had really been true than no matter how he treated her she should have been grateful, but as soon as she gets a taste of what she asked for Helena balks and refuses any more, taking back her "devotional loving words".
Megan Housekeeper
Period 6
So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart
-Helena
Helena is describing her and Hermia's relationship how it was in the time before their was a conflict of men. I think that this is an interesting aspect to Helena's character because it seems as though she is driven by one thing and one thing only; Demetrius and his love, it seemed before she scorned Hermia for taking this love away from her and resented her for being the interest of Demetrius. But to bring in to question the relationship of the two women, and how love and the fight for men can ruin a strong bond is brought up, but quickly discounted and the fight continues.
Selena Swaim, per 2
HERMIA
What, can you do me greater harm thatn hate?
Hate me? Wherefore? O me! What news, my love?
Am not I Hermia? Are you not Lysander?
I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
Since night you loved me. Yet since night you left me.
Why then, you left me- Oh, the gods forbid!-
In earnest, shall I say?
LYSANDER
Ay, by my life,
And never did desire to see thee more.
Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt.
Be certain, nothing truer. 'Tis no jest
That I do hate thee and love Helena.
This quote is after Robin makes the mistake of sprinkling the love potion on Lysander's eyes, rather than Demetrius'. In result, Lysander falls in love with Helena.
Hermia is confused what caused Lysander to lose the passion he had for her just the previous night, and Lysander is telling her to give up hope because he never wants to see her again. The mistake leads into the rest of the story, where Oberon and Robin try to straighten out who loves who, so that they are all happy.
Mackenzie Engel
Period 6
BOTTOM
"No assure you; the wall is down that parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of our company?"
THESEUS:
"No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all dead, there needs none to be blamed."
This excerpt from A Midsummer Nights Dream comes from Act V after the Athenian performers have finished their short play at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Bottom asks Theseus if he would wish to hear an epilogue for the play because he is unsure of the crowds reaction to their work. This signifies how unsure the playwright and actors were of their work in terms of Theseus' reaction and Theseus' response signifies that he was indeed pleased with their efforts. He implies that the acting team needs no excuse and that they are far from mediocre, as they may have thought themselves to be.
andrew song period 6
Oberon: I wonder if Titania is awake yet, and if she is. i wonder what the first thing she saw was. Whatever it is, she must be completely in love with it now.
this quote is about Oberon's scheme to make Titania fall in love with the first thing that she sees so that he could steal her little changeling boy unhindered. In doing this he makes her fall in love with him and in the end they run away together to fairy land.
Helena:
O spite!O hell! I see you all are bent
To set against me for your merriment
If you were civil and knew courtesy,
You would not do me thus much injury.
Can you not hate me, as I know you do,
But you must join in souls to mock me too?
If you were men, as men you are in show,
You would not use a gentle lady so
To vow,and swear, and superpraise my parts,
When i am sure you hate me with your hearts...
Etc.
This relates to the rest of the story because this is where it gets really interesting and the men have woken up and now are in love with Helena instead of Hermia. This is where the plot thickens and the beginning of where everything gets all mixed up. Since they were both fighting over Hermia and then the fairies were trying to make it so that only one loved Hermia and one loved Helena but Puck messes it up and and puts the potion in both Demetrius and Lysanders eyes and then they both fall for Helena. From here on the rest of the plot is trying to get everything back to normal or how they originally wanted to change it.
Sam Bellefeuille
Period 6
I chose a quote that was said by Titania, but i read it in class.
"Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed while i thy amiable cheeks do coy, and stick musk roses in thy sleek, smooth head, and kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy."
this was the part in the play when Titania woke up and fell in love with the first man she saw. this person just so happened to be a rabbit looking creature. the reason why i chose this quote was because the entire play was about love and how by putting flower juice on someones eyes, they will fall in love with the first person they see, not true love, and that is shown by Titania falling in love with a rabbit. After she realized what she had done and what not, she felt foolish and her and another man fell for eachother.
Mandi DeLaVergne
Period 6
HELENA:
We grew together,
Like a double cherry seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So with two seeming bodies,
But one heart
This quote by Helena is directed towards Helan and Hermia's relationship. I believe this is describing the relationship that they had acquired befor the "man" troubles. This is interesting, and very realistic; how a man can ruin such a great friendship and bond. Helena's focus switch from Hermia to her lover, Demetrius. It makes you question how the friendship will turn out in the end of the story, and if they will every speak in the same way that they had, or if they will be torn apart by men and love.
Regan McComb Period 6
Demetrius: O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! to what, my love, shall i compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. Oh, how ripe in show thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! That pure congealed white, high Taurus' snow, Fanned with the eastern wind, turns to a crow when thou hold'st up thy hand. Oh, let me kiss this princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!
This quote relates to the rest of the plot because it shows how in love with Helena Demetrius is at one point. But the people are always changing their minds on who they love at on time in the play. Everything gets mixed up because Demetrius and Lysander both fall in love with Hermia at first but then suddenly change their minds when the stuff is put on their eyelids and they both go for Helena. This quote just shows how much Demetrius is in love with Helena after everything got changed around.
Chris Hong Period 6
Oberon: What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite
And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:
Of thy misprision must perforce ensue
Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.
I thought this quote by oberon was very good becuase this is the beginning to the tragic confusion. If Oberon put the posion into the right person in the first place there would have been no confusion. However, he realizes this and regrets his action. I thoguth this quote really explained what was going on in the play at that time becuase people can now predict what was going to happen next. Which was confusion and hate.
Shae Hurst Period 6
Bottom: Nothing, good mounsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb to scratch. I must to the barber's, monsieur; for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me,I must scratch.
This quote shows Shakespeare making fun of Bottom a character that is constantly the butt of his jokes. During this part of the play Bottom of course has the form of an ass because of the fairies mischief. His statement is thus very ironic because he doesn't fully comprehend the fact that he is an ugly ass. He remarks that his face feels particularly hairy and even compares himself to an ass which he is. This is just an example of the mess that the fairies created in the woods and how hilarious it all is. Misunderstandings like that are the foundation of much of Shakespeare's humor in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Bryttany Enge, Period 6
Puck: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!," Act 3
In this quote, Puck expresses his amazement at the Athenian’s foolish behavior. This line is relative to the rest of the story in terms of plot by portraying the story’s brilliant humor as well as for the reason that the line embodies the silliness of the lovers’ behavior. It also marks the contrast between the humorous fairies and the lovesick humans. The character Puck in general captures the fairies’ impish behavior and this is one quote that perfectly portrays such behavior.
Jordan Adam Per. 4
Act IV, Scene 1, Lines 69-73
OBERON:
Be as thou wast wont to be.
See as thou wast wont to see.
Dian’s bud, o’er Cupid’s flower,
Hath such force and blessed power.
Now, my Titania, wake you, my sweet queen.
The lines above are the short incantation that Oberon speaks as he pours juice into Titania’s eyes. Oberon’s speedy change of heart after his pranking of Titania bespeaks the mischievous and flighty nature of Shakespeare’s fairies. Though the fairy king had been full of malicious intent when he originally ordered that Titania be made to fall in love with a beast, he completely changed how he felt about his queen in the same night. Oberon must not be a creature that firmly sets its mind if he changed from love to hate and back in only a few hours. That same flighty fey nature is clear when Titania wakes after these lines as well. She seems to completely forget about her embarrassing ass infatuation and falls quickly in love with Oberon again. Where many humans would bear a grudge for being the butt of a cruel prank, the fairy queen is content to reverse her thinking just so she can be happy again. Shakespeare’s fairies are clearly indecisive and emotional creatures considering the speed with which they change their minds. If you said they have a kind of emotional ADD, you wouldn’t be far from the truth.
Montana Ferris / Period 2
Quote from Scene III:
PUCK
My mistress with a monster is in love. Near to her close and consecrated bower, While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls, Were met together to rehearse a play Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.
The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort, Who Pyramus presented, in their sport
Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake When I did him at this advantage take, An ass's nole I fixed on his head: Anon his Thisbe must be answered, And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, Rising and cawing at the gun's report, Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky, So, at his sight, away his fellows fly; And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls; He murder cries and help from Athens calls. Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong, Made senseless things begin to do them wrong; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch; Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch. I led them on in this distracted fear, And left sweet Pyramus translated there: When in that moment, so it came to pass,Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
Explanation:
My mistress Titania is in love with a monster. While she was sleeping in her bed of flowers, a group of idiots, rough workmen from Athens, got together nearby to rehearse a play they plan to perform on Theseus's wedding day. The stupidest one, who played Pyramus in their play, finished his scene and went to sit in the bushes to wait for his next cue. I took that opportunity to stick a donkey's head on him. When it was time for him to go back onstage and talk to Thisbe, he came out of the bushes and everyone saw him. His friends ran away as fast as ducks scatter when they hear a hunter's gunshot. One of them was so frightened when he heard my footsteps that he yelled, “Murder!” and called for help from Athens. They were all so afraid that they completely lost their common sense. They started to become scared of inanimate objects, terrified by the thorns and briars that catch at their clothing and pull off their sleeves and hats. I led them on in this frightened, distracted state, and left sweet Pyramus there, transformed into someone with a donkey's head. At that exact moment, Titania woke up and immediately fell in love with him, an ass.
Michelle Le, period 2
Act IV, Scene 1
Bottom:
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was
Bottom says this when he first wakes up in the morning. He thinks about what he saw that night, and his meeting with Titania. He thinks it was a dream, but it was unbelievably real. This relates to the rest of the story because that entire night seemed like a dream to all the human characters. So many strange things happened to them. Maybe thats why the title is called a Midsummer Night's DREAM." Everyone thought it was a dream.
Kenna Campbell
Period 6
Helena: I'm not sticking around here any more. I don't trust you. You might be a better fighter than I am, but my legs are longer and I can run away faster.
This is when the two girls were fighting and fell into the mud and were in an argument about who was trying to sabotage the other. To me this showed at that point that Helena was the weaker of the two because she was running. But later on in the play when things got straightened out and the people were in love with who they were supposed to be in love with they both seemed equally strong or an equally important character to the play.
Bergen Anderson, per. 2
Hermia: The more I hate, the more he follows me.
Helena: The more I love, the more he hatheth me.
This is the scene where Helena and Hermia are talking and this is right before Hermia and Lysander tell Helena that they are going to run away together. Helena is upset because she wants Demetrius but he wants Hermia. It is so true what they say because often times people want what they can't have which is true for all the characters, and for Demetrius, what he can have which is Helena is what he really doesn't want. This gives insight into all the characters actions and desires.
Christin Thrane
Period 4
OBERON
May all to Athens back again repair
And think no more of this night's accidents
But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
But first I will release the fairy queen.
This is when Bottom wakes up and realizes that he has been abandoned in the woods and Oberon tells Titania that he will remember all of it as a dream.
It is an important quote in the play because of the way Bottom deals with his nightmare. He turns it in to a fun song ('Bottom's Dream') instead of being scared of it. He then returns to Athens. This is showing that we can turn out worst fears into humor.
Megan Lowry per. 2
When my cue comes, call me, and I will
answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!
Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout,
the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen
hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare
vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go
about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there
is no man can tell what. Methought I was,--and
methought I had,--but man is but a patched fool, if
he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye
of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not
seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue
to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream
was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of
this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,
because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the
latter end of a play, before the duke:
peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall
sing it at her death.
This quote is Bottom waking up after he fairy queen realizes what has happened, and has sent him away. In the first line, he wakes up and still thinks that he is practicing the play with his company. Then, he realizes where he is, and begins to remember. First he blames the vision in his head on a dream, but then wonders if they are real. Eventually, he decides that he would be crazy if he thought any of it was real, and is sure that it must have been a dream. He decides to write down his dream in the form of a ballad.
Clayton Butler
Period 2
Puck: Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth, A million fail, confouding oath on oath.
This quote from Act 3 Scene 2 is a good quote that relates to the rest of the play because by the end of the book, everything works out well. Demetrius and Helena end up wedding, same with Lysander and Hermia, and Bottom and the rest of his group, through trials and terbulations, end up being the chosen group of actors that perform at the wedding for the three couples. Everything ends up working out in the end for everybody.
Gabe Gonzalez Period 2
Theseus:
Fair lovers, you are fortunately met:
Of this discourse we more will hear anon.
Egeus, I will overbear your will;
For in the temple by and by with us
These couples shall eternally be knit:
This quote is significant as it confirms that the play will end happily. Theseus gives approval for the marriage of Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius and Helena after finding the two couples together in the woods. This part of the play effectively ends all the conflict and relationship issues from earlier on and leads into the series of weddings that conclude the play.
Sarah Jane Elliott
Period 2
QUINCE
You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a
sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a
summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man:
therefore you must needs play Pyramus.
This point in the show is when Peter Quince is telling Bottom that he can only play the part of Pyramus in the play "Pyramus & Thisbe". Throughout this scene Bottom basically trying to convince Quince to make it a one man show because Bottom seems to think he can play all of the parts. This is a great show of character for Bottom because he is very outrageous and loud. Bottom has a large ego which becomes even more clear later in the show when the fairy queen, Titania, falls in love with them. When the other fairies begin to attend to him, he acts like it was how he should be treated. The quote from Midsummer is also great because the soft spoken Quince, he spoke up and put Bottom in his play like he need to be. Another reason this quote is great is while Peter Quince set things straight in the mind of Bottom, he also stroked his ego, just like Bottom likes it.
Karin Ochsner
Period 4
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
This quote basically shows how mortals or humans react with love. How stupid and silly they behave when they have love right in front of them. They get so absorbed in there emotions that they become someone completely different. And that’s exactly how the characters behave throughout the whole play.
Tia Bailey P.4
"did you not say that i would know the Athenian by the clothes that he wore" - Puck to Oberon
By this mistake made by puck we were able to witness and enjoy how Lysander/Hermia and Demetrius/Helena came to be as couples. With the hatred, jealousy, confusion and love. It made it so that not only did Oberon realize that his fun with Titania should end, but that not everything is all fun and games.
Stephanie Bateman Period 2
Quote:
"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear;
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend."
This quote is at the end of the play, its an extention of a theme that has been going througout the whole thing. That you continue to dream throughout the play. Lots of things that happened during the play were "dream like" like fairies and so forth. I think its interesting that he sort of steps out of character at the end and tells the audience really not to take things so seriously, and if they have then to continue on as if it were a "dream". I think it wraps everything to an end real nicely.
Kaiti Staup, Period 4
Act IV, Scene 1
Bottom:
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was
This is what Bottom says when he first wakes up in the morning. He remembers the happenings from the previous night, and his meeting with Titania. He is convinced that it was all a dream, but at the same time he knows how unbelievably real it seemed. The human characters were all so absorbed in the story that even though they are sure that it was a dream.
Jamae Coonts
p6
Oberon says "I wonder if Titania is awake yet, and if she is. i wonder what the first thing she saw was. Whatever it is, she must be completely in love with it now".
i think that this is showing that Oberon wants titania to be in love with the first thing that she will see when she wakes up. It seems that Oberon isnt very sneaky and keniving because of the way he steals titania and gets her to fall in love with him.
Joel Maltos
Per. 4
Bottom:"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."
This is when Bottom awakens from his slumber and realizes he is not in the forest anymore, but he is back to being a human. He is confused if his experience in the forest was real or just a dream. He is also trying to understand his strange encounter with Titania. He talks about past the wit of man, because any other man would think it was just a dream, but he knows it was a real experience and he is going to take it to heart.
Sam Franklin per 6
"Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallow'd house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door."- Puck
This quote summarizes Puck's role in the story. he is the one who does the dirty work for everyone else. He goes back and forth for Oberon fetching things and carrying out Oberon's plans.
Erika Hodges per.2
"Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear." -Puck
This quote shows how Puck fixes things. Puck is the 'mender' of the things that happen or go amiss in the fairy world. Puck is saying that the sights they saw were dreams and they have nothing to worry about. All they know is that they dreamt whatever they saw or did.
Kayla Aldridge
Period 6
" We grew together,
Like a double cherry seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So with two seeming bodies,
But one heart"
I found this quote by Helena very interesting, its describes Helans and Hermias relationship before there "man" troubles occurred. After reading this I was very curious to see how things would turn out in the end and if love and men would come between their friendship.
Jacob Carpenter
Period 4
Demetrius: O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. Oh, how ripe in show thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! That pure congealed white, high Taurus' snow, Fanned with the eastern wind, turns to a crow when thou hold'st up thy hand. Oh, let me kiss this princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!
I think this quote relates to the plot very well because it shows the level of love which was expressed with Helena Demetrius at one point. Also the people are always switching thoughts on who they love at different times throughout the play. Then things are starting to fall out of place because Demetrius and Lysander both fall in love with Hermia then when the substance is put on their eyelids they both go for Helena. This quote reflects on the strong bond and love which Demetrius had with Helena after everything got mixed up.
Mike Smolkowski
Per 4
Helena: I'm not sticking around here any more. I don't trust you. You might be a better fighter than I am, but my legs are longer and I can run away faster.
This quote is when the two girls are fighting in the mud and arguing about who is trying to mess with the other. I thought this was pretty funny because its girls mud wrestling which is pretty much the main attraction at college parties. I thought it was pretty cool how old plays such as these use things that we in todays times view as party fun. But anyways, I thought that this quote xhows how Helena isn't too strong. She is straight up saying that she is weak comparitively and is a wuss cause she is saying she can just run away from it all. But as everything worked itself out, ahe seemed just as strong as a character as everyone else.
Kenny Exelby
Period 4
BOTTOM: Act IV, Scene II
Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together; good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look over his part; for the short and the long is, our play is preferred.
This is when bottom came back from his fairy land and he had made a play that was supposed to be performed. All of his(I love you Schindler)peers kept asking where he was and what he was doing, but all he told them was to get dressed in their best clothes and make everything as good as possible(do you actually read these?)because that night was going to be epic.
Trisha Hancock
Period 2
Act IV, Scene 1
Bottom: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was
Bottom wakes up in the morning after his night with Titania. He awakes thinking it was all just a dream he had. This relates to the rest of the story because the whole story is about the wrong people falling for the wrong person and then it being corrected. The whole night to all the humans just seemed like a dream.
Andrew Pilgrim Period 4
Puck:
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
This quote shows the dramatic irony that the fairies know that what happened to the mortals is perceived as a dream but actually happened and is also a twist from Shakespeare that calls to the knowledge that the audience is merely seeing a play. The idea that Puck knows it is a play brings up the idea that he is wiser than all of the other characters because he knows that he is, in fact, a fictional character. One of the themes of the play is the absurdity of life and love and this quote exposes that absurdity and pokes fun at the play as a metaphor for life. Shakespeare is able to close the play on a note of irony by showing the witty Puck to be smarter than all of the other characters. This quote shows Puck to be more than impish and whimsical, but in fact a very intelligent and wise player in this short farce. Any incident in the human life can be viewed as a dream in a larger subconscious state of another being. If reality is merely electrical signals interpreted by the brain, then every reality is merely a dream. This play just happens to be one of the midsummer night variety.
phillip foshee
period 6
"But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness."
Theseus speaking to Hermia
This scene to me is very dark and scary. One of the things that turns me off about playes is when you feel like you dont want to be a part of it, and its too odd to listen to or read. This part of the play is very up and down. I feel like that the story goes up in key and then the mood keeps uprising and then when the which withers it gets scarry and then the story falles and then it begins to go uprising again and then the story hits a climax and then falles again.
Dathan Bauman per.2
Bottom: I had a most rare dream. A dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about t'expound this dream. Methought I was, and me thought I had-but man is a patched fool in he will offer to say what methought I had.
This is the scene where Bottom woke up after being changed back to a man and is wondering if he should tell somone about it. He later decides to tell peter quince to make a play about it called Bottom's Dream because it hath no bottom.
Alyssa De Hoop Period 4
Hermia- "What's this to my Lysander? Where is he?
Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?"
Demetrius- "I had rather give his carcass to my hounds."
This bit of dialogue shows us how much Hermia loves Lysander because she is looking for him. It also shows how much Demetrius despises Lysander.
Andrew Kemis
Period 6
Theseus: No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no
excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all
dead, there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he
that writ it had played Pyramus and hanged himself
in Thisbe's garter, it would have been a fine 2205
tragedy: and so it is, truly; and very notably
discharged. But come, your Bergomask: let your
epilogue alone.
This quote happens at the end of the play after they have perfomed the play. Theseus is commending them for thier good work. Theseus' daughter is envolved in a love triangle. It is only after the show that the triangle is unwound into two straight lines. While the love triangle is taking place, a group of actors had been putting on a play. This play is the one that is poerformed for Theseus. It's rehearshals are incorporated into the lover's triangle.
Evan Norris
Per. 6
Bottom:"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."
This relates to the story because this was Bottom's reaction to his dream when he first wakes up in the morning. It was all to real for him, he thinks about his night with Titania and reflects on his thoughts.
Nathan Zimmerman, Per. 6
Lion: "Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of our company?"
Theseus: "No epilogue, I pray you; for the play needs no excuse."
This is an excerpt from a Midsummer Nights dream when the theater company finished their play. This has to do with the plot because it shows how unsure the actors were of how they performed and if the audience understood their plot. Theseus reassures them on a wonderful effort.
Matt MacDougall
per 4
BOTTOM
"No assure you; the wall is down that parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of our company?"
THESEUS:
"No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all dead, there needs none to be blamed."
This excerpt from A Midsummer Nights Dream comes from Act V after the Athenian performers have finished their short play at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Bottom asks Theseus if he would wish to hear an epilogue for the play because he is unsure of the crowds reaction to their work. This signifies how unsure the playwright and actors were of their work in terms of Theseus' reaction and Theseus' response signifies that he was indeed pleased with their efforts. He implies that the acting team needs no excuse and that they are far from mediocre, as they may have thought themselves to be.
Dathan bauman
Per 2
" Man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was." -Bottom
This the scene right after bottom wakes up after having a donkey head. He believes that it was all a dream but won't tell anyone because of how crazy it sounds.
This relates to the story because most of it was with the faries and no one other than the faries knows what happened. Almost everyone else dismisses this night as a dream also because of all the weird things that happened. One moral of this story is that love is blind because the couples don't questions why demetrius suddenly love Helena and Bottom doesn't question why he had a donkey head. Although this was an important night to the humans it was just like any other night. So like a dream this night was unimportant.
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