A Midsummer Night's Dream Group
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coolgirl
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High School - 11th Grade
In what ways is the play-within-a-play an ironic commentary on what (Demetrius & Helena, Lysander & Hermia) have gone through earlier?
help me please to find the 2 quotes that goes with the unwers of the question too please. thanks
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gbeatty Teacher
College - FreshmanPosted by gbeatty on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 2:40 PMThere are many ways in which the play is a commentary.These lines:
And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content
To whisper, at the which let no man wonder.Reflect on the lovers who were kept apart, but did a lot more than "whisper": they complained to the parents, the duke, the public, one another, etc. The play lovers are passive where the two couples are active.
A later section is ironic as well:
Approach, ye furies fell!
O fates! come, come;
Cut thread and thrum;The lovers are met by supernatural beings, but fairies, rather than furies. Rather than justice, fairies produce…whimsy. Rather than fell fates, they produced love. That's irony.