https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve COMMENT ON THE FOLLOWING: CONTEXT [SOCIAL, POLITICAL], SETTING, LANGUAGE, CHARACTERS, THEMES, SYMBOLS AND MOTIFS en-us 2021-08-13 02:48:00 UTC 2023-06-15 12:06:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729955934 Shakespeare has characterized the poem with immaculate symbolism of the moon. Represented via several names Diana, Sophie, Phoebe. It signifies time and waiting. 
Pranav Team-1

]]> 2021-09-10 03:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729955934 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729956984 Characters 
Helena 
Shakespeare presents Helena as a stark physical contrast to Hermia. We meet Helena in a low point in her life. She is very much in love with Demetrius, a young man who once courted her. Now he wants to marry Hermia and has rejected Helena. 


]]> 2021-09-10 03:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729956984 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729957309 This play begins in turmoil and finishes in harmony, exactly like any other Shakespearean comedy. The drama is set on the day of the summer solstice when the connection between the human and fairy worlds are strongest. ]]> 2021-09-10 03:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729957309 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729957427 There are no specific sources for A Midsummer Night's Dream, but Shakespeare did draw on several works for various aspects of the play. Plutarch, translated by Sir Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes (1579). Shakespeare took both Theseus and Hippolyta from this translation of Plutarch.]]> 2021-09-10 03:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729957427 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729958156 context- 
the midnight summer review. Peter C. Herman argues that underneath the surface tale lies a tale of complex political tension that ends with an unwinnable choice from an increasingly hypocritical leader.


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Shakespeare drew on concepts of courtly love and ethics from Chaucer's ''The Knight's Tale'' as well as the marriage culture of the 16th century in order to create the play A Midsummer Night's Dream-Yashita Sharma]]> 2021-09-10 03:49:11 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729958846 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729959038 The main themes in A Midsummer Night's Dream are love, imagination, and patriarchy. Love: Shakespeare portrays romantic love as a blind, irrational, often beautiful force that can be both cruel and forgiving. Ultimately, love drives the play's entire plot.

team 2- Aarna 

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Symbols in midsummer night's dream]]> 2021-09-10 03:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729960269 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729960417 Character -Puck
Puck uses magic throughout the play for comic effect—most notably when he transforms Bottom's head into that of an ass. This is likely the most memorable image of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and it demonstrates that while Puck is harmless, he is capable of cruel tricks for the sake of enjoyment.]]> 2021-09-10 03:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729960417 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729961223 Team 1 - The theme of jealousy operates in both the human and fairy realms in Midsummer Night's Dream. Jealousy plays out most obviously among the quartet of Athenian lovers, who find themselves in an increasingly tangled knot of misaligned desire.]]> 2021-09-10 03:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729961223 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729962243 Characters 
Lysander
Lysander is confident, despite the problems that he and Hermia face at the beginning. Ahakespeare presents Lysander as a proactive lover that will love Hermia no matter what.]]> 2021-09-10 03:51:00 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729962243 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729963073 Team 1- Pranav
Motifs are constant and never change during the entire play. They signify nature, the moon and dreams. The eyes are a sign of perception and imagination.]]> 2021-09-10 03:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729963073 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729963488 Context-
In act 1 scene 1, Theseus, who is a Duke of Athens, is excited to be marrying Hippolytain just four days. Egeus approaches Theseus with his daughter Hermia to ask for the duke's advice. ... Lysander points out to Theseus and Egeus that Helena is in love with Demetrius and wants to marry him.]]> 2021-09-10 03:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729963488 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729963552 team 1 - in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the main symbols are the moon, roses, and the love potion. A symbol is an object that represents a deeper, more important idea often explored through a piece of literature.]]> 2021-09-10 03:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729963552 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729963579 2021-09-10 03:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729963579 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729964790 Setting-
Act 1 opens at the palace of Theseus, the Duke of Athens. Theseus is anxiously awaiting his marriage to Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons, which is to be held in four days on the first night of the new moon.]]> 2021-09-10 03:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729964790 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729965108 https://www.softschools.com/literature/summary/a_midsummer_nights_dream/a_midsummer_nights_dream_act_1_summary/
In act 1 scene 1, Theseus, who is a Duke of Athens, is excited to be marrying Hippolyta in just four days. Lysander points out to Theseus and Egeus that Helena is in love with Demetrius and wants to marry him. Theseus agrees to talk privately to Egeus and Demetrius about this situation, and the three of them leave.]]> 2021-09-10 03:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729965108 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729965932 Context-
The wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta is to be held in four days with the coming of the new moon. Egeus, whose dark-complexioned daughter is Hermia, requests of Theseus the ancient privilege of selecting Demetrius as her husband rather than Lysander, despite their expressed love for each other.]]> 2021-09-10 03:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729965932 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729967063 team 1 https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/characters/]]> 2021-09-10 03:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729967063 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729967274 Characters 
Demetrius
Demetrius appears much less likable than Lysander. He appears as arrogant and seems rather careless of Hermia's lack of interest. Even less favourable is his rejection of Helena and the hurt he caused her.]]> 2021-09-10 03:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729967274 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729967304 2021-09-10 03:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729967304 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729968369  Motifs
Nature representing the magical world of the forest in contrast to Theseus's court.
The Moon reflecting change, disruption and unpredictability, romance, the magical and mysterious, a journey. 

]]> 2021-09-10 03:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729968369 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729968458 team 1 The entire play is constructed around groups of opposites and doubles. Nearly every characteristic presented in the play has an opposite: Helena is tall, Hermia is short; Puck plays pranks, Bottom is the victim of pranks; Titania is beautiful, Bottom is grotesque.

]]> 2021-09-10 03:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729968458 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729968638 2021-09-10 03:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729968638 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729968762 A major theme is metamorphosis, which means change or transformation. The connection between Hippolyta and Theseus begins brutally on the battlefield, with Theseus inflicting "injuries" on Hippolyta with his "sword." Their connection, however, metamorphoses into a marriage comprising "pomp," "triumph," and "revelling." ]]> 2021-09-10 03:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729968762 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729968945 Team-1 Pranav
Themes are eloquently displayed in the play. Conflict explains Egeus' attempt to force his will across Hermia. Order and Disorder interprets brings out a rational and irrational rules between magic and interests of love. ]]> 2021-09-10 03:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729968945 rshah77 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729969127 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LpGRhXBR8U]]> 2021-09-10 03:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729969127 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729969172 The play opens with Theseus and Hippolyta talking about their wedding, which is about to take place. Theseus is eager for the wedding day to come but Hippolyta reassures him that 'Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights'. ... Egeus tells Theseus he wants to 'beg the ancient privilege of Athens'.]]> 2021-09-10 03:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729969172 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729969344 https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/setting/]]> 2021-09-10 03:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729969344 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729970356 team 1
The play's use of satire, paradox and oxymoron. Literary devices from the play, including wordplay, puns, alliteration, idioms and hyperbole.

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Themes of Gender dominance and metamorphosis/change.
The theme of gender dominance makes the audience aware of the state of women during the Elizabethan era, how they had no independence and no control over their lives
On the other hand, the theme of metamorphosis informs the audience about the fickle nature of love and humans. Irrational, erratic, deceiving.]]> 2021-09-10 03:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729970577 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729970727 Themes 
Love and Marriage and the difficulty of making relationships work. Some related scenes: Act 1 Scene 1: Theseus describes his courtship of Hippolyta and the confusion of the four lovers begins with Egeus' formal complaint about his daughter's involvement with Lysander.]]> 2021-09-10 03:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729970727 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729970784 The first scene of Act I of "Romeo and Juliet" opens with two servants of the Capulet house, Sampson and Gregory, armed with swords and bucklers. Gregory especially detests the feuding family, the Montagues, referring to Abraham of the Montague house as "a dog of the house of Montague

team 2 aarna ]]> 2021-09-10 03:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729970784 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729971747 The main themes in A Midsummer Night's Dream are love, imagination, and patriarchy. Love: Shakespeare portrays romantic love as a blind, irrational, often beautiful force that can be both cruel and forgiving. Ultimately, love drives the play's entire plot.

]]> 2021-09-10 03:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729971747 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729971929 Team-1 Pranav
The setting compromises of greek setting put up in Athens which is depicted as a place of civilization, law, and order, while the forest is a place of wildness, anarchy, and chaos.]]> 2021-09-10 03:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729971929 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729972094  motifs 
Eyes as emblems of perception and perspective, as entryways to the heart, windows on the soul.
Plays, rehearsals and roles/parts as symbols of magical transformation and of experimentation and preparation 
 ]]> 2021-09-10 03:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729972094 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729972424 Contexts-
The moral lesson of A Midsummer Night's Dream may be to point out the fickle nature of human relationships. Shakespeare uses comedy and the magic of fairies to demonstrate the failure of humans to form constant and steady romantic relationships]]> 2021-09-10 03:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729972424 rshah77 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729972667 Act 1 opens at the palace of Theseus, the Duke of Athens. Theseus is anxiously awaiting his marriage to Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons, which is to be held in four days on the first night of the new moon.]]> 2021-09-10 03:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729972667 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729972731 Characters 
Egeus
Egeus's complaint against his daughter Hermia dominates the first scene. Shakespeare uses Egeus to introduce the themes of law and control. Egeus is determined to bring down the full force of law on Hermia if she refuses to obey him. ]]> 2021-09-10 03:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729972731 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729972828 Setting - A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place across two settings: the court of Athens and the woods. Every production will have these two settings, but they could be staged in lots of ways. 
TEAM 1 

]]> 2021-09-10 03:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729972828 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729973111 Shakespeare depicted Hermia as a strong woman who opposes male authority and Theseus as a domineering patriarch. Hermia unwaveringly supports Lysander, declaring him to be as "worthy" a gentleman as Demetrius. Hermia is seen as a courageous woman in the face of adversity by the audience. She defies the stereotype of an Elizabethan woman.]]> 2021-09-10 03:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729973111 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729974193 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6YGOPw-lCE

]]> 2021-09-10 03:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729974193 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729974515 2021-09-10 03:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729974515 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729975209 It shows how the male characters reign supreme, establishing their authority over the female characters and maintaining control by acts of violence. ]]> 2021-09-10 03:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729975209 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729975677 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/theater/a-midsummer-nights-dream-in-different-looks-and-cities.html TEAM 1 

]]> 2021-09-10 03:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729975677 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729975702 Team-1 Pranav
Context depicts a play set on Midsummer Night and structured as a dream was going to be fun and full of the resonances associated with a festal day that had age old overtones of love, marriage, misrule and jolllity. ]]> 2021-09-10 03:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729975702 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729976039 2021-09-10 03:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729976039 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729976063 https://www.coursehero.com/lit/A-Midsummer-Nights-Dream/symbols/]]> 2021-09-10 03:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729976063 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729976440 Characters 
Hippolyta and Theseus
Theseus and Hippolyta are the first two characters introduced to the play. Through them we are immediately introduced to the play's main themes of marriage, love and conflict. ]]> 2021-09-10 03:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729976440 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729977096 2021-09-10 03:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729977096 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729977770 characters. 
helena
Helena is characterized by insecurity and misery, and covets the love affairs of Hermia, who is troubled by one too many lovers. ]]> 2021-09-10 03:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729977770 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729978099
Some of the popular beliefs are that whatever is wished on Midsummer's Night will come true; that after night-fall the fairies are all-powerful; that they often steal new brides, or turn cowslips sprinkled on the doorstep into flames to burn those who have harmed them TEAM 1 ]]> 2021-09-10 03:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729978099 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729978866 A carpenter named Quince and his fellow workmen, Snug the joiner, Bottom the weaver, Flute the bellows-mender, Snout the tinker, and Starveling the tailor gather in Quince's house. The group has heard that Theseus is to be wed and they want to produce a play in his honor. Quince, the director, announces that the play will be "The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby" (11-2), and he announces who will play which part. ]]> 2021-09-10 03:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729978866 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729978981 In act 1 scene 1, Theseus, who is a Duke of Athens, is excited to be marrying Hippolyta in just four days. Egeus approaches Theseus with his daughter Hermia to ask for the duke's advice. Egeus has agreed to let Demetrius marry Hermia; however, Hermia is in love with Lysander, who is also interested in marrying her.]]> 2021-09-10 03:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729978981 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729979452 Team-1 Pranav
The theatrical effect in the exposition has through symbolism and language and the use of literary devices have evolved the reading experience making it more complex and extract dramatic. ]]> 2021-09-10 04:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729979452 yuvika1 https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729979496 Bottom, who has appointed himself "assistant director", is determined to produce the play his way. Although he already is to play the role of Pyramus, Bottom thinks he should play the lion and Thisby as well. It is decided, however, that Flute should play Thisby, Snug should play the lion, Starveling should be Thisby's mother, and Snout Thisby's father. Quince tells the men they must all know their lines by the next night when they will rehearse in secret in the woods near Athens.]]> 2021-09-10 04:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/asharma226/ndb4zwon42ck1pve/wish/1729979496