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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius due to a misunderstanding with the orders he receives from Oberon. In act 1, scene 2, Puck is sent to retrieve “Love in Idleness,” the purple flower which...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 3, scene 2, Hermia runs away from Demetrius in fury, accusing him of having killed Lysander. Demetrius says that there is no point in his “following her in...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
According to Stephen Follows, Midsummer Night's Dream has been adapted 20 times into a film. In addition, it has been adapted into ballets, operas and musicals. The play was adapted into a silent...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The answer to your question on how the characters of Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, come to be engaged in William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander and Hermia had been told by Theseus that they are forbidden to marry each other because Egeus, Hermia's father, has decided she must marry Demetrius. Hermia is in love with Lysander, but...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
This "shrewd and knavish sprite" does indeed drive many of the incidents and outcomes of the plot of A Midsummer's Night Dream. In fact, he may even be considered the most important character in...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare turns the subject of love into a comedy instead of a romance. He shows that human love can be fickle and can be altered with nothing more than a few drops...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The answer to this question depends on which part of the play you are referencing. At the beginning of the text, Helena reveals that she is in love with a man named Demetrius who is romantically...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In storytelling, there are three kinds of irony: dramatic, verbal, and situational. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows more about a situation than the characters in the story do. Verbal...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare uses two distinctly different locations in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. One (the setting at the beginning and end of the play) is the court and city of Athens in ancient Greece,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
One difference is that the city is a place of order, while the forest is a place of disorder. In Athens, Hermia must marry the man her father chooses, die, or become a nun. She flees these laws by...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Demetrius has so vehemently told her he dislikes her and wants her to go away that Helena is quite surprised when he has a sudden change of heart. Since she doesn't know Puck has dropped a love...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Snug is a joiner by trade, a kind of artisan who builds wooden components of a building—think stairs, doors, window frames, and so on—or even furniture and fittings by joining together pieces...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
This question is asking you about the events of act 3, scene 2 in this play. Here, we find Oberon in the wood. He is waiting to find out whether his plan has worked—he has sent Puck, his servant,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Quite a few elements keep the many couples in this play apart, though each couple's trials are unique. Hermia and Lysander's union is opposed by social obligations. Hermia is expected to obey her...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In William Shakespeare's play, a large number of couples form, split up, realign, resist connections, and deceive each other. The fairy monarchs, King Oberon and Queen Titania, in some ways...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In the broadest sense, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy. It contains elements of a classic Shakespearean comedy, including lovers who must overcome problems to be...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Since, when you ask about the conflicts in Midsummer Night's Dream, you stipulate "so far," and, as I have no idea where you are in the play and therefore no idea what, "so far," means to you, I...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck puts the juice of the flower into Lysander's eyes on accident. Puck is a servant of Oberon, the king of the fairies. Oberon is in a fight with his wife Titania over who gets to keep a certain...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pictorial elements help us visualize in our mind's eye what is going on in a play. They rely on imagery, what is description which uses the fives senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In this play, a group of less-than-talented tradesmen puts on a dramatic version of the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, two lovers whose parents forbade them to marry. Just as Hermia's father,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The role of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream is to create both the conflict and the resolution in the play. They do this by manipulating the human beings in the play while also remaining...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The text does not tell us why Egeus prefers Demetrius over Lysander. The text does tell us what Egeus did and what Lysander did. The text also implies an order to these actions. The best we can do...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
On the surface level, we might assume that Hermia and Lysander share their plans with Helena because she is their dear friend and because as young lovers, they lack the wisdom to know their plan...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The primary plot in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare is the love triangle, or quadrilateral, between Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius. Shakespeare uses two frame...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
At the beginning of the play, two of the young lovers, Hermia and Lysander, intend to flee together to the home of Lysander's aunt to put themselves out of the reach of Athenian law so they can get...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
No, Bottom is blissfully unaware of his strange transformation. He cheerfully goes about this business without the slightest realization that the mischievous Puck has given him the head of a...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream has a large cast of characters. There are twenty-two characters with lines and the option to include many others in the play. There are seven characters that could be...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
That's a very good question. A single fairy has been chosen to stand watch over Titania while she sleeps. But he doesn't do a very good job of it because the mischievous Oberon is able to creep up...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Quite a bit has been written about this title, and I suppose there are several subtle and surprising things that can be gleaned from it. There are a few clues, linguistically, that the title gives...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The play of Pyramus and Thisbe that occurs in Act V scene 1 acts as a serious reminder in an otherwise humourously comic play of the situation of the lovers at the beginning of the play. We are...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus is a patriarchal ruler who tends to expect women to fall in line when it comes to love and marriage. For instance, Hippolyta, his fiance, was queen of the Amazons until he forcibly took her...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The most obvious similarity between the two in A Midsummer's Night Dream is that they are both fighting for the love of Hermia. They are both also citizens of Athens who have some degree of wealth...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In act 4, scene 1 of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and his wife-to-be, Hippolyta, accompanied by Egeus and attendants, have gone into the woods outside...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Egeus is a minor but key character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream. Egeus appears to have one goal and one goal only: to marry his daughter Hermia to the gentleman Demetrius at...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck could be seen as a protagonist of sorts in that he's by far the most important character in the play. It's through his mischief and magic that many of the play's most significant events are...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The play of Pyramus and Thisbe is important to A Midsummer Night’s Dream because it provides a parallel plot of comic relief and silliness that also underscores the themes of the play. In a way,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
There are two significant challenges for Lysander and Hermia to overcome in their love for one another in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The first challenge to their love comes from...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The main obstacle to Hermia and Lysander's love is Hermia's father, Egeus. Egeus doesn't want Hermia to marry Lysander; he wants her to marry Demetrius. To overcome this obstacle, Hermia and...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
This is common in many cultures. There are certainly parents today who think that children, especially daughters, should do whatever they say. Something similar happens in Romeo and Juliet, which...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream fits the description of "romantic comedy" for at least two reasons: it focuses on the romantic relationships of characters, and it ends in marriages....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
At the beginning of the play, Lysander is in love with Hermia and wants to marry her. However, Hermia's father, Egeus, refuses to give his permission for the marriage, preferring that his daughter...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare usually relies on indirect characterization rather than direct, meaning that he does not come right out and tell us what a character is like or looks like. Instead, he paints the...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare creates a magical atmosphere in this scene by immersing us in the forest world of the fairies. The scene opens with a fairy's speech, which clearly sets this place apart from the human...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
This quote actually sums up the entire play! Truth, reason, and love do not always go hand in hand. For many people, love is ruled by emotion, not by logic (reason and truth). Helena is definitely...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theseus is discussing the play with Bottom in the middle of the night. He begs Bottom not to include an epilogue since the play has gone on long...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The dispute between Hermia and her father lies with the subject of her marriage. Hermia has two suitors. Demetrius is her father's preferred choice for his daughter to marry, but Hermia wishes to...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck has some confusion as to whose eyes Oberon wants him to place the love potion drops in. Oberon has observed Demetrius's rejection of Helena's love and wants the love potion put in Demetrius's...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Metadrama, or metatheatricality refers to a play in which the content intentionally breaks up the illusion of reality that the author creates in the play(Dr. Wheeler, "Literary Vocabulary"). Often...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
In Act 3, Scene 2, Helena accuses Hermia of conspiring with both Lysander and Demetrius in mocking her. In other words, Helena does not believe that either Lysander or Demetrius are being sincere...
