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Act I, Scene 1 1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus? Hippotlya eas captured and was forced to marry Thesus, so she is not looking forward to the wedding.

2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do? He expects Thesus to give him permission to kill his daughter if she does not agree to marry Demetrus.

3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia? Women should do their fathers and husband's biddings.

4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things? It complicates things because it gives Egeus a plausble reason to not wish him to marry his daughter.

5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena? They plan to run away and get married outside athens where the athenean law cannot toutch them.They decide to tell Helena becayse they do not want her to worry bout Demetrius marrying Hermia, because Helena is in love with him.

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? Because she thinks it will make him love her instean of Hermia,

7. Identify Hermia’s basic dilemma. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus and her father? What other choice does Lysander suggest? She is being forced to marry Demetrius. Her choices are to marry him, to die, of tobecome a nun for the rest of her life. Lysander gives her the choice of running away with him.

Act I, Scene 2 8. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts? Because he is very full of himslf, and he thinks that he is a very good actor, so he wants to prove it to the others.

9. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene? It is a scene in which Bottom makes a fool of himself Shakesere probably included this scene to add humour to the play.

10. Where are the actors to meet the following night? Who else is meeting there at the same time? The actors are going to meet in the forest, the same place that Lysander and Hermia are going to meet.

11. How would you describe Bottom’s acting ability? What is Bottom’s own opinion of his acting ability? <span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Bottom is not a bad actor, but he is too confident and thinks he is much better that he is.

<span style="color: #ff0505; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Act 2, Scene 1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">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? If the Oberon and Titania meet, they will fight.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens? They both have had affairs with them and have come to athens to attend their wedding.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans? When they quarrel, their anger turns into nature and changes the weather and forms natural disasters that can impact the humans.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon? Because his mortal mother had died, and left her in charge of him.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">14. What does Oberon send Puck to find? He was sent to find the flowers that cupids arrow hit, and turned magical. Sprinkled in the eyes of someone sleeping, the first thing they saee they fall in love with.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania? Oberon plans to drop liquid from the magic flovers so that she falls in love with the first vile creature she sees.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse? She responds by turning every word he says back upon him.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse? She says that she can treat her like a dog; hit her, abuse her, but she will stil love him.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women?  <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena? Oberon tells him to put the drops from the flowes into Demetrius' eyes so that he will fall in love with Helena, because he is being so mean to Helena.

<span style="color: #e91207; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Act II, Scene 2

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing? Oberon wants Titania to fall in love with something vile because she will not let him have the changeling baby.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her? Hermia wants him to sleep a distance from her because they are not married yet and she does not want him to violate her in the night.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes? Puck anoints Lysander's eyes because he mistakes him for Demitrius because he has not seen him, and he is wearing the Athenian garb, and has has a girl close to him, how Oberon described Demitrius.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">23. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens? Helena thinks that Lysander is pulling a cruel joke because she thinks that he is still in love with Hermia and that he is just making fun of her for not being beautiful.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">24. How is Hermia’s dream a reflection of reality? Hermia's dream is a reflection of reality because the snake that was eating her heart out in her dream is the same as Lysander breaking her heart, and the fact that Lysander is smiling while the snake is feeding on her heart because he is still happy in love with Helena while she is not.

<span style="color: #fc0303; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Act III, Scene 1

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">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 write a prologue that states that Pyramus is not actually Pyramus but an actor, and that he does not really kill himself, and that the lion is not a real lion, but another actor, and the mask will sow half of his face.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">26. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight and the wall? For the moonlight, they will either open a window or have a person enter with a lamp. For the wall, they are going to have a person play the wall, dressed up.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">27. Why do the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears? The actors run off because they see Bottom head transformed into an ass' head.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">28. What does Puck plan to do when he follows after the other actors? Puck plans to follow the actors so that he can scare them more and have more fun.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">29. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies? Bottom enjoys Titania complementing him and his singing and he tries to be smart with all of the fairies' names.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">30. Bottom says, "…reason and love keep little company together nowadays." Why is this such an apt statement at this point in the play? At this point in the play there have been a lot of mishaps involving love, that have mainly been caused by lack of judgement and reason.

<span style="color: #f20202; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Act III, Scene 2

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">31. What does Hermia accuse Demetrius of doing? Hermia accuses Demitrius of joining with Lysander to make fun of her by making her think she's beautiful, and pretending to love her.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake? They ar egoing to anoint Lysander's eyes once again with the flower that so that he will fall in love with Hermia again.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">33. Why is Helena upset when Demetrius says he loves her? Isn’t this what she had wanted all along? She thinks that he is playing a trick on her and is just saying that to make fun of her.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">34. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia? Helena accuses Hermia of joining with Demitrius and playing a cruel joke on her.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">35. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past? They were best friends and they would do everything together. They used t oplay together in the forest adn they even went to school together.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">36. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why can’t she believe what he says? Lysander tells Hermia that he hates her and no longer loves her, and she cannot believe this because the previous night, Lysander was in love with her.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">37. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena? Hermia accuses Helena of stealing her lover tby doing something to him the previous night.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">38. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia? Because Hermia said she would tear her eyes out.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">39. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to do? Lysander and Demetrius leave to fight each other for Helena.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">40. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men? Oberon tells Puck to follow Demetrius and Lysander, and tire them out by calling their names and taunting them.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">41What is Oberon going to do about Titania? Oberon is going to anoint Titania's eyes again so that she falls in love with him instead of Bottom.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">42. Why doesn’t Oberon fear the coming of day?

He can endure the day, unlike other spirits. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">43. How well does Puck’s trickery work? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Puck's trickery works well because Demetrius and Lysander believe that they are following each other, and all of the lovers fall asleep eventually.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Act 3 Plot OUtline?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**44. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies?** He love sit, and treats them like his own servants ordering them around.
 * <span style="color: #ff0a0a; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Act IV, Scene 1 **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**45. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom?** He becomes jealous, and decides to revrerse the effects.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**46. What sort of explanation will Oberon make to Titania’s question about what happened to her?** He says it was a bad dream.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**47. Why are Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and the others out in the woods so early in the morning?** They ar egoing on a foxhunt to celebrate the morning o fMay and of the wedding.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**48. What is Theseus’s first explanation of why the young people are asleep in the woods?** His explanation is that they are there to join them on the hunt and help to celebrate the morning of May.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**49. What explanation does Demetrius make? Why does he compare his love for Hermia to an illness?** He says that he once again loves Helena, and no longer Hermia. His love for Hermia is like a sickness because when you are sick sometimes you dislike something (Helena) but when you are healthy you like it again. He is saying he is 'healthy again.'

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**50. What is Theseus’s decision concerning the four young people?** He decides to let them marry their lovers at his wedding.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**51. Why can’t the young people be sure whether they are awake or dreaming?** It seems very unrealistic, but they all had the same dream... Which is a strange coincedence.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**52. Bottom believes he too has had a dream. How is he going to use that to entertain the Duke?** He will get Quince to write him a sonnet called Bottom's Dream.

<span style="color: #fd0d0d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Act IV, Scene 2** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**53. What opinion do the other artisans now have of Bottom since they think he is lost?** " It is not possible: you have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he" " No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft man in Athens" " Yea, and the best person too; and he is a very paramour for a sweet voice"

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**54. What do they most regret losing by not being able to perform the play?** Not getting the money they would have been payed for performing, since there is now a triple wedding.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**55. Why must the artisans hurry to the Duke’s palace?** The couples have all been married, and they have to hurry so they can perform.

<span style="color: #ff0505; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Extending the thought process** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**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="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bottom's character is an arrogant over confident type. He needs the attention of others and by wanting it so badly, sometimes acts like an ass. He's quite opposite of Theseus because Theseus is more reserved. Since he is King, he is watched more carefully and it wold not be suitable for him to act so boisterously.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**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="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They first believe it was a dream, but upon realizing they all had the same dream they are confused. Demetrius is changed permanently because he is now in love with Helena.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**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="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He is saying the infatuation isn't as strong as love can be and that it can't hold you for very long.


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #ff0505; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Act V <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**56. Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people?**

He thinks it will be entertaining and he has also seen the other ones.
 * 57. Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisby rather than the other entertainments?**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**58. Why does Philostrate try to keep Theseus from seeing the play? What does he say is wrong with it?** He thinks it is a joke, and the actors are horrible. He says that he could shed a tear when Thisbe dies, but he shed a tear because of how bad the acting was.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**59. What does Theseus mean by the lines, "For never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it"?** He means that as long as they are being true and sincere there is nothing wrong with it**.**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**60. What is accomplished by having the Prologue tell the whole story that the actors are then going to enact?** It explains that the actors won't actually be killing themselves and that the lion is a person, so that the ladies in the audience will not be alarmed.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**61. How does Shakespeare use comments from the audience to enhance the humour of the play that they are watching?** It makes the actors have different emotions. For example, at one point Bottom comes out of character to answer what the audience was saying.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**62. What is Hippolyta’s reaction to the play?** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hippotlya condems the play as being "silly."

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**63. In what way is Thisby’s final speech humorous?** She asks if he is asleep and calls her lover dumb. She also adresses her "friends," even though she is talking to Pyrabus, and says "thus Thisbe ends", but her story is told for hundreds of years to come.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**64. What does Oberon tell the fairies to do?** Oberon tells the fairies to bless the wedding beds.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**65. What is the purpose of Puck’s final speech?** He apologizes for the mistakes he made, and tells the audience that if they likes it tell your friends, but if you disliked it, to think of it as a dream. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #ff0505; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**Extending the thought process:**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**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="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**excessive alliteration:** "Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast** " ** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**breaking the play’s illusion of reality:** Pyramus: Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me! Theseus: The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again. Pyramus: No, in truth sir, he should not. "Decieving me" is Thisby's cue:she is to enter now, and I am to spy her through the wall.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**using the wrong word or name:** " Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true."

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**repeating a word excessively:** " Now die, die, die, die, die."


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ridiculous metaphor : ** "To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face. Thisby! "

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">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? By watching and commenting on the play within a play, the characters of AMSND reveal to us what they think of a play. This helps us see how the people who originally watched this play thought and how Shakespeare thought when he was writing the play. It also helps us get more into the minds of the characters. ====== ===<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">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="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">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="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The play i sabout a pair o flovers who end up dieing. This is not appropriate for a wedding because the lovers end up dieing for each other, they might not enjoy the story as they are lovers themselves. Demetrius and Helena, Lysander and Hermia have just one through a night of crazy happenings. Lysander and Helena are in love, the they are separated by Lysander's "false" love for Helena. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Completion 21/25 <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Effort 21/25  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Content 22/25  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Total 64/75 <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Podcast 1 - 17/20  <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Podcast 2 - 18/20  ||