A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1, Scene 1 by Jessica Reekie https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh By William Shakespeare en-us 2017-03-16 19:09:36 UTC 2025-04-24 13:06:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png Who is Theseus? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160642779  the duke ]]> 2017-03-16 19:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160642779 Link lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160642854 http://shakespeare.mit.edu/midsummer/midsummer.1.1.html]]> 2017-03-16 19:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160642854 Who does Theseus plan to marry? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160642941  Hippolyta ]]> 2017-03-16 19:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160642941 Who is in love with Demetrius? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643018  Helena ]]> 2017-03-16 19:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643018 Why can’t Lysander and Hermia get married? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643082 Hermia’s father wants her to marry Demetrius.]]> 2017-03-16 19:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643082 What does Helena decide to do at the end of Act I, Scene 1? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643142 to tell Demetrius that Lysander and Hermia are running away ]]> 2017-03-16 19:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643142 Shakespeare’s Language lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643468 When you aren’t used to it, Shakespeare’s language can seem impossible to be understand. However, with practice, you’ll find yourself understanding more than you expected.
 
 In Act I, Scene 1, Egeus asks Theseus to command Hermia to marry Demetrius. Theseus speaks directly to Hermia. Select the text to explore the language in the passage.
What say you, Hermia? Be advised, fair maid.
 To you, your father should be as a god,
 One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
 To whom you are but as a form in wax
 By him imprinted, and within his power
 To leave the figure or disfigure it…
]]> 2017-03-16 19:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643468 Words and Tone in Act I, Scene 1 lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643555 Read this passage again. Think about the tone of what Theseus is saying.
What say you, Hermia? Be advised, fair maid.
 To you, your father should be as a god,
 One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
 To whom you are but as a form in wax
 By him imprinted, and within his power
 To leave the figure or disfigure it…
]]> 2017-03-16 19:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643555 What is the tone of this passage? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643600  The tone is serious. Theseus is warning Hermia. ]]> 2017-03-16 19:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643600 What words or phrases create that tone? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643646  Theseus compares Hermia’s father to a god, and Shakespeare’s audience would believe that people who disobey God will face harsh punishment. Also, Theseus says her father has the power to “disfigure” or destroy her. ]]> 2017-03-16 19:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643646 Helena and Hermia lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643722 Helena and Hermia are two of the main female characters in this play. They are friends, but they are both having problems with their romantic relationships. Hermia is not allowed to marry the man she loves. Helena’s problem is different, as she explains in this passage.
  
 As you read, think about the tone of this passage. How does it compare to the tone Theseus used in the earlier passage? Select the text to explore the tone of the passage.
HERMIA 
 Godspeed, fair Helena. Whither away?
 
 HELENA 
 Call you me “fair”? That “fair” again unsay.
 Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!
 Your eyes are lodestars and your tongue’s sweet air
 More tunable than lark to shepherd’s ear
 When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
 Sickness is catching. O, were favor so!
 Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go…
]]> 2017-03-16 19:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643722 Helena’s Imagery lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643812 Read Helena’s lines again. Think about the imagery she uses.
Call you me “fair”? That “fair” again unsay.
 Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!
 Your eyes are lodestars and your tongue’s sweet air
 More tunable than lark to shepherd’s ear
 When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
 Sickness is catching. O, were favor so!
 Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go…
]]> 2017-03-16 19:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643812 What does Helena describe using imagery? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643884  Helena uses imagery to describe Hermia’s beauty. ]]> 2017-03-16 19:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160643884 What does lodestars mean? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644023  She says Hermia’s eyes are lodestars. A lodestar is a guiding star, which ships used to steer. Sailors often keep their eyes on the lodestar, in the same way Demetrius often likes to look in Hermia’s eyes. ]]> 2017-03-16 19:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644023 What does Helena say about Hermia’s voice? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644219  Helena compares Hermia’s voice to a bird singing in springtime. ]]> 2017-03-16 19:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644219 How do these images affect the tone of this passage? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644286  The imagery is strong and vivid. Even though Helena is upset, her exaggeration when describing Hermia’s beauty creates a comedic tone. ]]> 2017-03-16 19:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644286 Read the passage from A Midsummer Night's Dream. lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644617 HELENA: For, ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,
 He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
 And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
 So he dissolved, and show’rs of oaths did melt]]> 2017-03-16 19:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644617 What are the meanings of hailed and hail in the passage? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644686 Hailed means exclaimed; hail means frozen rain. ]]> 2017-03-16 19:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644686 How do the multiple meanings of hail affect the tone of this passage? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644792 By showing how betrayed Helena feels, they create a tone of disappointment. ]]> 2017-03-16 19:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644792 Read the passage from A Midsummer Night's Dream. lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644921 LYSANDER: How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale?
 How chance the roses there do fade so fast?

HERMIA: Belike for want of rain, which I could well
 Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.

]]> 2017-03-16 19:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160644921 Lysander comments that the “roses” in Hermia’s cheeks have faded.What does Hermia say in response? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160645010 I can water the roses with the tears in my eyes. ]]> 2017-03-16 19:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160645010 Read the passage from A Midsummer Night's Dream. lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160645530 HELENA: Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
 And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
 Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste.
 Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste.
 And therefore is Love said to be a child
 Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. ]]> 2017-03-16 19:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160645530 Helena describes love in many ways. How do these images express Helena’s experience of love? lazyeeyore https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160645617 Sometimes people fall in love with the wrong person, as Helena did with Demetrius.]]> 2017-03-16 19:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lazyeeyore/nlz3ukh9pmh/wish/160645617