The exposition of the story is Theseus and Hippolyta are preparing for their wedding in Athens, Greece. Hermia and Lysander are in love. However, Demetrius also loves Hermia. Helena is in love with Demetrius yet no one is in love with Helena. The rising actions start when Egeus takes Hermia to Theseus and ask to have him put her to death if she does not obey his orders and marry Demetrius. Theseus instead gives her a choice to either marry Demetrius or die. Instead, Lysander and Hermia run away to
to the actors made me feel as if I was in their world, feeling their feelings. Another reason that I related with the reactions of the characters in this play is that I identified with the characters when they were upset or mad. For example, when Hippolyta got furious because Theogenes was cheating on her yet again, I could identify with her
The fairies were originally there to bless the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. The four lovers were there to elope. The mechanicals were there to practice their play for Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding. All the characters in the wilderness were there for the reason of marriage. The interaction between all these characters
challenging Demetrius to a sword fight. Once Oberon got the child that he wanted from Titania, he fixed all of the crazy nonsense that was happening between the four young people wandering the woods. There would now be a triple wedding for Theseus and Hippolyta, Demetrius and Helena, and Lysander and Hermia. Lysander is once again in love with Hermia, and all is good among
what you do or what you try. Problems come all the time, and those problems are the ones who make life better because everyone learns from them. This book “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” created by William Shakespeare is about when Duke Theseus and Hippolyta(the queen of the Amazons) were preparing everything for their wedding. During this, Egeus and his daughter Hermia are having troubles because Hermia wants to marry Lysander but Egeus is forcing her to marry Demetrius(who’s loved by Helena). Theseus
At the beginning of the play Hippolyta says: “Four days will quickly steep themselves in night. / Four nights will quickly dream away the time.” (I.i.7-8) This is foreshadowing because she predicts how quickly the events of the play go by. So much happens in so little time it seems like
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Shakespeare was an English poet, actor, but more commonly known for his playwrights. Often deemed as the greatest writer in the English language, Shakespeare to this day manages to capture the minds of his audiences and readers within his comedies, like A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The use of irony, diction, and lack of stage directions are the leading reasons why Shakespeare is able to make his comedies quite humorous. To start off, Shakespeare often uses irony to create humor within the captivating
throughout the play seem to be unpleasant. Speaking of being wedded at the end, that is another element of comedy used in the play. Although there is conflicted between the couples, it is resolved allowing Hermia and Lysander; Helena and Demetrius; Hippolyta and Theseus to wed
ridiculed by how ridiculous it is by the nobles. Bottom says that if he were the lion, he would play it so well that he will “make the Duke say ‘Let him roar again, let him roar again’” (I. ii. 58-59). Theseus never says this or anything similar and Hippolyta even goes to say that the play that Bottom and the mechanicals are performing is “the silliest stuff that ever I heard” (V. i. 204). His use of words also make him look foolish. For example, when Bottom is talking about a solution to keep the lion