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Gentles, do not reprehend.

If you pardon, we will mend.

And, as I am an honest Puck,

If we have unearnèd luck

Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue,

We will make amends ere long.

Else the Puck a liar call.

So good night unto you all.

Give me your hands, if we be friends,

And Robin shall restore amends.”

Act 5, scene 2

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 "For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord's people". Corinthians 14:33 

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 "For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord's people". Corinthians 14:33 

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Now the book finally finished, what is the ending mean? Why do the play end like this so rushed, so “and they lived happily after”?

Shakespeare must have a reason to end this so abruptly, in my opinion to make puck “say sorry” by implying everything was okay, is a for of excusing himself for all the trouble he made, but the reality is that everything is not okay, the fact that Lysander ended up with the person he didn’t want (Helena) is ignoring what he wants.

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the story ended by the common saying “it was all a dream” which for me it was a bandaid in a deep wound. It is dry underlooked that Hermia is with Demetrius supposedly “In love” which is a bomb waiting to explode.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 5 Summary - Schooling Online

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 ACT 5: By the end of the play, do you think the play has ended happily or unhappily. How so, how not, and for whom? Have characters' conflicts been truly resolved or only repressed, forgotten, or ignored?

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 ACT 5: By the end of the play, do you think the play has ended happily or unhappily. How so, how not, and for whom? Have characters' conflicts been truly resolved or only repressed, forgotten, or ignored?

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Personally, the play ended very fast, very rushed. The fact that Demetrius is still in love with Helena by the love spell, is wild for me.

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Helena is extremely insecure, she even considers herself to look like a bear… She also thinks that Lysander is mocking her by showing her affection

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If you were in Helena’s position, would you be with Dementruis? Even though his love is magic induced? 

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Yesss, all that matter is that he is in love with me no matter the reason 

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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act 4 Summary - Schooling Online

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The “love-square” is solved at last?? Lysander is back in love with Hermia and Demetrius is in love with Helena (finally), personally this new “love” is induced by the juice Puck applied to him on purpose, this lives a huge “what-if” if Helena finds out.

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Even Manuel loves this book, shakespeare is the best! 

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Finally!!! Titania is free of the love spell

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3 words and parallel stories that happen in the play:  

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3 words and parallel stories that happen in the play:  

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-love

-secrets marriage

-Forbidden love

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Reading Shakespeare’s Language (words, sentences, wordplay, implied stage action) 

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Reading Shakespeare’s Language (words, sentences, wordplay, implied stage action) 

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Shakespear’s language in his books may often be challenging to understand, this is because the books were written in an oler vocabulary. A great example of words that had been outdated are:

-Nuptial: that means wedding

-Lingers: that means delays or drapes on

- Dowager: that means to widow

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Introduction to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Play :Act 1, Scene 1

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Introduction to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Play :Act 1, Scene 1

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In this act we can see the love triangle between Hermia, Helena, Demetrius and Lysander, and their plan to scape the woods, to get married.

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Introduction to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream (Complete Novel)

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Introduction to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream (Complete Novel)

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, “residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results. In the city, Theseus, Duke of Athens, is to marry Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. Bottom the weaver and his friends rehearse in the woods a play they hope to stage for the wedding celebrations.

Four young Athenians are in a romantic tangle. Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia; she loves Lysander and her friend Helena loves Demetrius. Hermia’s father, Egeus, commands Hermia to marry Demetrius, and Theseus supports the father’s right. All four young Athenians end up in the woods, where Robin Goodfellow, who serves the fairy king Oberon, puts flower juice on the eyes of Lysander, and then Demetrius, unintentionally causing both to love Helena. Oberon, who is quarreling with his wife, Titania, uses the flower juice on her eyes. She falls in love with Bottom, who now, thanks to Robin Goodfellow, wears an ass’s head.

As the lovers sleep, Robin Goodfellow restores Lysander’s love for Hermia, so that now each young woman is matched with the man she loves. Oberon disenchants Titania and removes Bottom’s ass’s head. The two young couples join the royal couple in getting married, and Bottom rejoins his friends to perform the play” (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”).

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Entire Play | Folger Shakespeare Library

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not…

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How do you feel about reading this old time classic? What are your expectations for this book? Personal thoughts, ideas

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How do you feel about reading this old time classic? What are your expectations for this book? Personal thoughts, ideas

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Personally, I am excited to read this novel, at the same time I feel this novel has the same theme as many of Shakespeare’s novels, his novels are always full of taste and humor, and I know this one will not be an exception.

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Hermia: Egeus daughter, in love with Lysander

Egeus: Hermia’s father

Lysander: Inlove with Hermia

Demetrius: gentleman of the court of Athens

Helena: Inlove with Lysander

Thesus: The Duke of Athens, engaged to marry Hippolyta

Hippolyta: queen of the amazons

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The play is written to be placed in Athens, then the woods is mentioned

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Hermia loves Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. Theseus, the Duke, has said Hermia can either marry Demetrius or live as a nun away from society. She is planning to run away with Lysander to the woods to go to her aunts house.

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Act 1 scene 2 is really funny to me because it reminds me of inspection, something inside of something inside of something. In this case it’s a play inside of a play.

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Quince

Bottom

Snot

Flute

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Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, quarrel over possession of a young Indian boy. Oberon orders Robin Goodfellow, a hobgoblin or "puck," to obtain a special flower that makes people fall in love with the next creature they see.

Oberon wants to make Titania fall in love with a beast and use her infatuation to get the Indian boy from her. Demetrius enters pursued by Helena, whom he tries to drive off. When Robin returns, Oberon, who sympathizes with Helena's love, orders him to find the Athenian man (i.e., Demetrius) and apply some of the flower's magic nectar to his eyes.

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Characters Introduction: Act 1, Scene 1  

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Characters Introduction: Act 1, Scene 1  

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-Oberon: The king of the fairies

-Titania: The queen of the fairies

-Robin Goodfellow: a “puck,” or hobgoblin, in Oberon’s service

-Fairy: in the service of Titania

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Titania instructs her fairies to dance and sing her to sleep.

Afterwards, her attendants can go back to their fairy work and disappear.

Oberon slips in and manages to get the pansy juice onto Titania eyes before running off.

Lysander and Hermia come tripping in after Oberon exits. They're lost so they decide to stop for the night and rest.

Lysander wants to sleep close to Hermia but she tells him to back off because they're not married yet. Lysander tries to sweet-talk Hermia but she's not having it.

They fall asleep separately.

Puck ambles onto the stage.

Puck thinks Lysander is Demetrius (because he's wearing Athenian clothes) and sprinkles the love juice on his eyelids.

Puck runs off to tell Oberon.

Then Demetrius runs onto the stage with Helena chasing after him. Demetrius tells her to scram but she refuses.

Demetrius exits the stage, leaving Helena to roam around on her own.

Helena, finally weary of running after Demetrius, wanders alone for a bit, talking to herself about how poorly she measures up to Hermia. Hermia's eyes are so much brighter—probably, Helena thinks, because she hasn't spent as much time crying as Helena has. In the middle of her pity party, she notices Lysander on the ground. Worried that he's dead, she shakes him awake.

Lysander takes one look at Helena and falls in love at first sight. Then he says he's going to kill Demetrius.

Helena is confused and thinks Lysander is mocking her, which adds to the indignity of Demetrius not loving her. She exits, certain that she's being punked.

Lysander says he never wants to see Hermia again and deserts her while she's sleeping.

Hermia wakes up from a horrible dream. Thinking Lysander is still sleeping near her, she recounts the nightmare: she thought a serpent was eating her heart while Lysander stood by smiling.

Hermia then realizes that Lysander's not there.

She panics and runs off looking for him, promising she'll either find her love or kill herself.

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In the begging of the play, the love “square” is already complicated, but things get messy when Puck gets involved, following instructions of Oberon, the king of the fairies.

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Things get complicated when Puck give the love-juice to Lysander instead of Demetrius, now Lysander is in love with helena instead of Hermia, she feels betrayed and depressed.

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If helena chooses to be your w/ Lysander, she is a very bad friend to Hermia

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"The Reconciliation of Titania and Oberon." Painting by Sir Joseph Noel Paton, 1847. Public domain.

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Through Puck's trickery and his ability to assume any of their voices, the four lovers all end up back where they started and fall asleep without seeing each other. Puck drops the love potion onto Lysander's eyes, saying that "when thou wak'st thou tak'st / True delight in the sight / of they former lover's eye" (3.3.39-41) and that all shall then be well.

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LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.

Through Puck's trickery and his ability to assume any of their voices, the four lovers all end up back where they started and fall asleep without seeing each other. Puck drops the love potion onto Lysander's eyes, saying that "when thou wak'st thou tak'st / True delight in the sight / of they former lover's eye" (3.3.39-41) and that all shall then be well.

Puck uses his magic to fulfill Oberon's plan to ensure a balanced love between the four lovers. When they wake up, what was a tragedy will be a comedy. And sos as the lovers sleeps their lives have been rewritten by the fairies one more time.

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Need help with Act 3, scene 3 in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream? Check out our revolutionary side-by-side summary and analysis.

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“How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.”3.2

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“How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.”3.2

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whattttt, Hermia and helena are having a cat fight, they are attacking each other for the new love of Lysander.

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Hermia seeing the new love of Lysander decides to go with the flow and betray Helena her best friend, for someone who loves her even though its not real.

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Oberon finally sees the problem his command is causing he decides to reverse the spell. Not only for Lysander and Hermia but for Titania who know is in love with Bottom.

“Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight.

Hie, therefore, Robin, overcast the night;

The starry welkin cover thou anon

With drooping fog as black as Acheron, And lead these testy rivals so astray As one come not within another's way.”

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Who is your chosen character? Why did you choose them?

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Who is your chosen character? Why did you choose them?

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I choose Helena, I was drawn to her because she is extremely insecure and her actions were really interesting to me because she chooses someone not because of love, just because that someone choose her.

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“The more I love, the more he hateth me.” 

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“The more I love, the more he hateth me.” 

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Helena, Act 1, scene 1

Helena loves Demetrius, but he rejects her love and says he hates her. Despite this Helena follows him into the woods and refuses to leave him alone.

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Puck accidentally makes both Lysander and Demetrius fall in love with Helena. Helena thinks the men and Hermia are mocking her.

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Helena loves Demetrius but he is in love with Hermia, who in turn wants to marry Lysander. Hermia and Lysander run away to be together and Helena and Demetrius follow them.

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Have the character’s conflicts been truly resolved, or have they been repressed, forgotten, or ignored?

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Have the character’s conflicts been truly resolved, or have they been repressed, forgotten, or ignored?

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As of Act 4, Helenas problem had been kind of resolved Demetrius is in love with her but magic induced

Now with the book finished, her problem i think is ignored, Demetrius may think he is in love with her but reality is that he is I love with her only because of Pucks love juice.

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Frustrated
Helena is frustrated at the beginning of the play because Demetrius does not return her love.

Suspicious
Even when Demetrius later declares his love, she thinks he is mocking her. She is suspicious when both men switch their affections from Hermia and say they love her. She also suspects that her friend Hermia is involved in the joke and that everyone is mocking her.

Untrustworthy
Hermia shares her secret plan to run away with Lysander with her friend Helena. Helena betrays her friend by sharing this secret with Demetrius, in the hope of gaining his affection.

Witty
Helena is a witty character and makes jokes even when she feels frustrated and unhappy.

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Demetrius and Lysander fight over Helena while Hermia blames Helena for the change in Lysander’s affections. Oberon and Puck reverse the effects of the love potion and Lysander loves Hermia again while Demetrius still loves Helena.

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 By the end of the story, does the play conclude happily or unhappily for your character? How so? How not? For whom?

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 By the end of the story, does the play conclude happily or unhappily for your character? How so? How not? For whom?

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To her knowledge it ends happily, but reality is that if she knew why he is actually love with her, i think she would be so happy.

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BBC Bitesize. . Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Helena. BBC Bitesize. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znpdqfr#z8rw239