A+Mid+Summer+Nights+Dream

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 * || “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Act I, Scene 1 1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus? Hippolyta's reasoning is different from that of Theseus because she thinks that the four days will pass by quickly but Theseus thinks that 4 days will pass by slowly. Hippolyta tries to convince him that soon enough they will be married and everything will be fine because four days will pass by quickly. Theseus disagrees and argues that their love cannot wait, four days will stretch out and feel like forever so they must get married sooner. 2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do? Egeus brought his daughter and her two suiters to Theseus so he can ask for Theseus's permission to use the Athenian law on his daughter which granted him permission to force his daughter to marry the man of his choice, become a nun, or be killed by her father. Egeus expects Theseus to give him permission to use the Athenian law so that his daughter can't marry one of her suiters, she can only marry the suitor that her father chooses. 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 had no control over what happened or wo they married. Their father would pick their suitor and she would serve her husband and father. 4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things? Because Lysander points out that it isn't fair that Demetrius is allowed to marry Hermia becaue he was still in love with Helena. This complicated things because Demetrius loved two women while Lysander only loved Hermia. Demetrius isn't completely commited to Hermia but Lysander is and would die to save her. 5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena? Lysander and Hermia decide to run into the forest at night and go into Lysander's aunt's house who lives just outside of Athens. They plan to get married there because the Athenian law only works in Athens. After they get married they will return to Athens and be happy. They tell Helena about their plan because they want her to know that once they are wed, Demetrius will be all hers and Hermia will be out of the way so that Demetrius has no choice but to marry her. 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? She thought that if she told Demetrius Hermia and Lysander's plan, then Demetrius and Helena would follow them into the forest and Demetrius would fall in love with Helena again. 7. Identify Hermia’s basic dilemma. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus and her father? What other choice does Lysander suggest? Hermia has to make a choice between marrying Demetrius, becoming a nun, or being killed by her father. She does not want to choose from any of these choices because she loves Lysander. These unfavorable choices were outlined for her by Theseus and her father. Lysander suggested that they run away and get married outside of Athens so that the Athenian law doesn't count. Act I, Scene 2 8. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts? Nick bottom wants to play all the parts because he thinks that he is the best actor and is so overconfident in his acting skills that he thinks that he can put on the whole show by himself because nobody else is as good as he is. 9. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene? This scene is funny because the play within the play is horrably written and hoorably acted making it humorous to watch. I think that Shakespeare included this scene because it adds humour and depth 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 to meet in the forest the following night. Hermia and Lysander are also supposed to meet in the forest the following night at the same time. 11. How would you describe Bottom’s acting ability? What is Bottom’s own opinion of his acting ability? ﻿Nick Bottom is not a very good actor and tends to be overdramatic and overconfident in himself and his acting skills. Bottom thinks that his acting is better than everyone elses and that he is a wonderful actor and should play all of the roles. ||

Scene 2 Questions

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 * 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?**
 * They find out that the King and the Queen are fighting. You also find out that after they fight, something bad happens and it effects everyone.**
 * 11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens?**
 * Oberon slept with Hippolyta and Titania slept with Theseus in the past. Oberon and Theseus are coming to Athens to attend Hippolyta and Oberon's wedding**
 * 12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans?**
 * When they fight, the seasons rapidly change, there are floods, the crops rot, and deseases spread.**
 * 13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon?**
 * She won't give up the human because the boy was her friends son and Titania promised to take care of the boy before her friend died. It was important to her to personally take care of the boy and protect him.**
 * 14. What does Oberon send Puck to find?**
 * Oberon sends puck to find a flower that can make people fall in love with the first animal they see**
 * 15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania?**
 * He plans to drop the flower's juice into her eyes when she is sleeping so that when she awakes she will fall in love with the first beast that she sees**
 * 16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse?**
 * She turns everything that he says around so that all the bad things that he is saying turn into good things. Everytime that Demetrius turned Helena down, she just grew more inlove with him and wanted him more and more.**
 * 17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse?**
 * She says that she is like a dog and that he can kick her if he wants. Even after he abused her she just kept wanting him more.**
 * 18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women?**
 * She is very desperate and told a man that she was his dog and he could abuse her all that he wanted and do whatever he wanted to do to her and she would still love him.**
 * 19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena?**
 * Oberon tells Puck to drop the juice of the flower in the Athenian man's eyes so that he would fall in love with the Athenian woman (because he felt bad for her)**
 * Act II, Scene 2**
 * 20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing?**
 * Because he wants payback for her embarassing him by paying more attension to the boy then to him and not allowing him to have to boy (which questioned his authority). He thought it would be humorous if she fell inlove with some beastly thing.**
 * 21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her?**
 * Because she thinks that he will try to sleep with her but she wants to keep her modesty atleast until they are married.**
 * 22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes?**
 * Because Lysander was the first Athenian boy that Puck saw and Oberon told puck to poor the juice of the flower into the Athenian boy's eyes.**
 * 23. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens?**
 * She thinks that he is joking and just making fun of her. She thought that he was nicer and is now mad at him.**
 * 24. How is Hermia’s dream a reflection of reality?**
 * Because she had a dream that a snake ate her heart and that Lysander just laughed and watched it eat her. When she woke up, Lysander had left and fell inlove with Helena and felt a sudden hatred for Hermia and wished she was dead.**

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">**In pairs, use Garage Band to produce the introduction of Act 2 Scene 2.. Use sound effects to create the magical and mysterious mood of the opening. Record the text up to line 34. Create the music to go with the lyrics of the Fairies Song. Upload to your wiki.**

Act III, Scene 1

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 tells the audience that Pyramus does not really kill himself because he is Bottom. Snug will show half of his face through the lion mask so that the ladies will know that it is not a real lion. Snug will also tell the audience that he is not a real lion but a man named Snug.

26. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight and the wall? They will have a man standing on stage pretending to be the wall. They will open a window to let in moonlight, but if that doesn't work, then they will have a man holding a lantern to represent the moonlight.

27. Why do the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears? because they are afraid of bottom because he has the head of a Donkey.

28. What does Puck plan to do when he follows after the other actors? He plans to lead them through the forest in the form of many animals and cause mischief.

29. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies? He is flattered but also a little confused.

30. Bottom says, "…reason and love keep little company together nowadays." Why is this such an apt statement at this point in the play? It is an apt statement because the statement is very similar to the relationships that are occurring in the play. Many of the characters have fallen in love without reason because of the pansy juice, so this statement is ironically true, since Bottom has no idea what is happening.

Act III, Scene 2

31. What does Hermia accuse Demetrius of doing? Hermia accuses Demetrius of killing Lysander.

32. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck’s earlier mistake? Puck and Oberon are going to put the flower's juice into Lysander's eyes when he is sleeping. They will make sure that Hermia is next to him when he awakes so that Lysander is in love with Hermia and Demetrius is in love with Helena.

33. Why is Helena upset when Demetrius says he loves her? Isn’t this what she had wanted all along? She does want this, but only if it is real. She believes Demetrius is mocking her, so she is upset.

34. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia? She thinks that Hermia is in on the joke and is trying to continue the mockery of her.

35. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past? They had been best friends, like sisters, in their childhood.

36. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why can’t she believe what he says? Lysander says he hates Hermia and calls her names. She cannot believe him because only the night before he was in love with her.

37. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena? Hermia accuses Helena of seducing Lysander and mocking her in return.

38. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia? Helena is afraid of Hermia because she believes Hermia would beat her in a fight.

39. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to do? They are going off to fight to the death over Helena.

40. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about the two young men? He tells Puck to separate them and make them fall asleep. When they are asleep he will put the flower's juice into Lysander's eyes and he will fall in love with Hermia; this will set everything right.

41. What is Oberon going to do about Titania? He was going to stop her from loving the ass. Then he will ask her kindly for the boy.

42. Why doesn’t Oberon fear the coming of day? Because Oberon still has powers in the day but the other fairies don't.

43. How well does Puck’s trickery work? Puck's trickery works very well. He pretends to be Lysander so that Demetrius will follow him until he is tired enough to sleep. Puck then pretended to be Demetrius so that Lysander would follow him and become tired fro the chase and fall to sleep. After they are both asleep, Puck will put the flower's juice into Lysander's eyes so that he will fall in love with Hermia; setting everything back to the way it should be.

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====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Review Question: The climax, or turning point, of //A Midsummer Night’s Dream// comes at the end of Act 3. In point form describe the major plot points of Act Three starting from when Titania falls in love with Bottom leading to the climax or turning point of the play near the end of act three.** ====

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Podcast: Shakespeare plays with ideas of vision, of blindness, and of different ways of interpreting what one sees. Podcast, with music the lines in Act Three that deal with this imagery.** ===

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Act IV, Scene 1 <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 44. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** He enjoys the attension and stoppped questioning why the fairies and Titania were pampering him. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 45. What is Oberon’s reaction to Titania’s infatuation with Bottom? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Oberon laughed and thought that it was very funny that she fell inlove with an ass. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 46. What sort of explanation will Oberon make to Titania’s question about what happened to her? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** He will not tell her that it was him that made her fall in love with the donkey. He will told her to listen to music and go to sleep. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 47. Why are Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and the others out in the woods so early in the morning? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** They were hunting in the woods. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 48. What is Theseus’s first explanation of why the young people are asleep in the woods? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Theseus thought that they woke up early to observe the rite of may, and hearing their intent, came here to grace the ceremony. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 49. What explanation does Demetrius make? Why does he compare his love for Hermia to an illness? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** He said that he heard of Hermia and Lysander's plan and followed them into the forest. He compared his love for Hermia to an illness because after the short period of time that he loved her, he grew tired of her and started to loathe her. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 50. What is Theseus’s decision concerning the four young people? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Theseus decided to wed all of them on his wedding day so that they would all be happy. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 51. Why can’t the young people be sure whether they are awake or dreaming? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Because everything that happened that night to them happened while they were awake, but because of magic, the things that happened in the night seemed to just be dreams. This causes confusion because the things that couldn't possibly have happened did and felt realistic even though they were "sleeping" the whole time. They can't tell if the whole thing was a dream or not. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 52. Bottom believes he too has had a dream. How is he going to use that to entertain the Duke? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** He is going to get Peter Quince to write a balllad of his dream. Bottom would sing the dream as a song to the duke at the end of the play. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Act IV, Scene 2 ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 53. What opinion do the other artisans now have of Bottom since they think he is lost? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** They now think about how important he is and about the good things about him. They also think about how they need him in order to perform the play because he was the best person to play the part. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 54. What do they most regret losing by not being able to perform the play? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** They most regret not being paid for performing the play. **

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 55. Why must the artisans hurry to the Duke’s palace? ** <span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Because the Duke is back with two other couples that are to be wed, and the wedding is about to start. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Extending the thought process.**
====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">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-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">I think that Bottom is unhappy with his life and loves the theatre because he can live in a life of happy endings and love. I think that he overacts everything to hide how unhappy and empty he really is inside. Bottom might be the antithesis of Theseus because Theseus is happy with his marriage, respected, payed attension to, rich, and powerful and Bottom is unhappy with his marriage, poor, unwanted, disrespected, ignored and powerless.

====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">b) How do most of the dreamers respond to the dream experience upon waking? Which character is changed permanently by the dream experience? ==== Most of the characters of confused. Demetrius is in love with Helena, Helena is in love with Demetrius, Hermia is in love with Lysander, and Lysander is in love with Hermia. Demetrius is permanently in love with Helena because of the flower's juice that was dropped into his eye in his sleep.

====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">c) In this act, several characters look back at prior infatuations with disbelief. What do you think Shakespeare is saying about love and infatuation? ==== Shakespeare is saying that infatuation in temporary but love is everlasting.

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Act 4 Podcast: Bottom decides to commission Peter Quince to write a ballad called “Bottom’s Dream.” On your own or with a partner, imagine that you have been asked to write the lyrics and compose the musical accompaniment. Remember that at the beginning of act 4, Bottom told the fairies that he likes to listen to the “tongs and bones” (act 4, scene 1, line 30). Tongs were pieces of metal struck against each other and bones were actual bones. These instruments were used in comical or in less sophisticated musical performances. Write the poetry for the ballad ( a minimum of 2 stanzas, 4 lines each), then put it to music!** ==

=<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Act V ** = <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 56. Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Because he thinks that their stories are too mystical and have no logic. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 57. Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisby rather than the other entertainments? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** He wants to see why it is tedious, brief, mirthful, and tragic all at the same time. He chose this play over the others because the other plays he had already seen or were old. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 58. Why does Philostrate try to keep Theseus from seeing the play? What does he say is wrong with it? ** Philostrate tries to keep Theseus from seeing the play because Philostrate saw the play and thinks that the story is dumb and poorly acted.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 59. What does Theseus mean by the lines, "For never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it"? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Theseus means that nothing can go wrong when you have put enough effort into it. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 60. What is accomplished by having the Prologue tell the whole story that the actors are then going to enact? ** Nothing, the prologue gives away the whole plot and ruins the play.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 61. How does Shakespeare use comments from the audience to enhance the humour of the play that they are watching? ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Shakespeare uses comments from the audience to make fun of the poorly executed play. **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 62. What is Hippolyta’s reaction to the play? ** Hippolyta thinks that the play is silly.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 63. In what way is Thisbe’s final speech humorous? ** Thisbe asks dead Pyramus if he is sleeping, even though there is a giant sword sticking out of his body.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 64. What does Oberon tell the fairies to do? ** Oberon tells the fairies to bless the house and its occupants.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 65. What is the purpose of Puck’s final speech? ** To make amends for the mess he created and to tell the audience that if they did not like it, it never happened.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Extending the thought process: **

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** 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="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> excessive alliteration : ** " With blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast." <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> breaking the play’s illusion of reality ** " No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'Deceiving me' is Thisbe's cue. She is to enter now, and I am to spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes." <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> using the wrong word or name ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">"Limander.. Helen." they meant Leander and Hero. ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> repeating a word excessively ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">"Die, die, die, die, die." ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ridiculous metaphor ** <span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #1a1a18; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">"That is the true beginning of our end." **

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**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?** === Observing another audience helps us to understand the relationships between the audience and the performers because the audience critiques how good or bad the play was and if they thought that the performers acted well. In the play within the play, the audience made fun of the performers because the performers were not good at acting and did not stay in character.

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**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?** === Corner Gas! (hank and wanda) The Big Bang Theory ( Sheldon and Penny)

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**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?** === Pyramus and Thisbe might not be suitable for a wedding because it is depressing, sad, and tragic. The play might be appropriate because it is about romance and about how devoted couples are. The play within the play is ironic to what happened to Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia because the lovers in the play were separated just like the four other lovers.