Act 1
In scene 2, who wants to play all the parts in the play?
Nick Bottom
Puck (Robin Goodfellow) accidentally puts the love potion/juice on the wrong Athenian man. What is the name of this Athenian man, and what is he doing during the time this happens?
1. Lysander
2. He is sleeping by himself after he and Hermia become lost and tired in the woods.
At the beginning of act 3, scene 1, a group has assembled in the woods. Who is in the group, and what are they doing?
1. Bottom, Quince, Snout, Starveling, Flute, and Snug
2. They are privately rehearsing for the play.
"If I tell Demetrius about her plan, he'll be grateful to me for the information."
"I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:/Then to the wood will he tommorrow night"
Helena
This opening scene establishes the main conflict and involves Hermia’s marriage.
Exposition
Hermia, who refuses to marry Demetrius because she loves Lysander, is given three choices. What are those choices?
1. Die,
2. marry Demetrius, and
3. become a nun.
After Titania refuses to hand over the changeling, what is Oberon's plan for revenge? Whose help does he enlist?
1. To put a love potion/juice over her eyes that will make her fall in love with the first thing she sees when she wakes up.
2. Puck (Robin Goodfellow)
Quince is having issues directing the rest of the "clowns/rustics." What are some of the issues he is facing?
Bottom thinks the character of Pyramus killing himself with a sword would be too gory for the ladies to watch.
Starveling wants to take out all of the killing.
Bottom wants to write a prologue that states they are not hurting anyone with their swords and that no one really dies.
Then, they think the ladies would be afraid of a man playing a lion, so they want to create another prologue.
Finally, they have to figure out how to "bring moonlight into the room" and who should play the "wall."
"I'm such a great actor that I can do all the parts in the play!"
"An I may hide my face, let me play Thisbe too."
Nick Bottom
Egeus demanding Hermia marry Demetrius introduces this type of conflict.
External Conflict: person vs. authority or person vs. society
Demetrius loves ____________. Although, he formerly loved ____________.
Hermia, Helena
Oberon overhears two of the lovers. What are their names, and what does he decide to do to "help?"
1. Demetrius and Helena.
2. He has Puck put love potion/juice on Demetrius so that Demetrius falls in love with Helena.
Someone is eavesdropping on the "clowns/rustics" rehearsing. Who is it, and why is he there?
1. Puck
2. He mischievously wants to have some fun, so he puts a donkey head on Bottom, who is near the sleeping Titania.
"Give me that boy, and I'll dance with you."
"Give me that boy, and I will go with thee."
Oberon
The couples leaving Athens and entering the forest signals the beginning of this stage of the plot.
The rising action
Hermia and Lysander decide to run away together to get married. They share this information with another character. Who is this character, and what does she decide to do with this info?
1. Helena
2. She tells Demetrius so that he can finally love her again.
What happens when Helena happens upon Lysander and wakes him up?
Lysander immediately falls in love with Helena. Helena thinks he is joking and tries to run away, but Lysander follows her, leaving Hermia alone.
True or False: Bottom knows he has a donkey head.
False
"Why are you making fun of me like this?"
"Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?"
Helena
When the audience knows Lysander has been enchanted, but Helena does not, Shakespeare uses this literary device.
Dramatic irony
At the beginning of scene 2, a group of amateur actors get together to rehearse a play for a wedding. Whose wedding is this play for, and what is the title of the play?
1. Theseus and Hippolyta
2. The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus & Thisbe
1. What happens when Hermia is starting to wake up and then eventually wakes up?
2. What does this event foreshadow?
1. Hermia has a horrible nightmare about a snake ripping her heart out, and she wakes up alone.
2. Her heart is going to, metaphorically, be ripped out since Lysander believes he loves Helena now.
Describe the interaction between Titania and Bottom when she awakes.
Titania is immediately infatuated with him. She has her fairies dote on him. Though Bottom is a little thrown off at first, he accepts this.
"I'll watch their play and perhaps act in it as well, if I want to have some fun."
"I'll be an auditor--/ An actor too perhaps, if I see cause."
Puck (Robin Goodfellow)
The forest representing chaos and transformation is an example of which literary device?
Symbolism