Midsummer night's dream by Jacopo Servidio https://padlet.com/jacopo_servidio69/tmz36ujw549y Realizzato da Jacopo Servidio e Andrea Montera en-us 2017-10-12 14:48:46 UTC 2017-10-16 17:12:00 UTC hello@padlet.com PLOT jacopo_servidio69 https://padlet.com/jacopo_servidio69/tmz36ujw549y/wish/196461377 Theseus, Duke of Athens, is about to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. For the ceremony there is a four-day magna celebration. For the occasion a nobleman Athenian, Egeus, with his daughter Hermia and two young men, Demetrius and Lysander, arrive at court. Egeus hopes that Hermia will marry Demetrius, who is already in love with the young man, but Hermia is in love with Lysander and therefore refuses to submit to her father's will. Egeus threatens to punish her daughter with the most severe punishment provided by law if she does not respect her will and gives her time until marriage to decide on her own fate, clarifying that opposing her will means she will be locked up in the convent or even killed. Hermia and Lysander then plan to flee Athens the next night to marry in Lysander's uncle's home, not far from the city. They announce the plan to Helena, a friend of Hermia, who had been engaged to Demetrius and still loves him, even though he has moved away from her after meeting Hermia. In the hope of regaining her love, Helena reveals to Demetrius the escape that Hermia and Lysander have planned and at the time agreed Demetrius secretly follows the couple in the woods, in turn followed by Helena. In the forests there are two more groups of characters. The first is composed of fairies, including Oberon and Titania, king and queen of fairies, who have just returned from India to bless the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. The second is a group of Athenian artisans who try a comedy to stage in front of the duke and his bride. Oberon and Titania disagree about the fate of an Indian prince who was entrusted to Titania. The boy is so beautiful that Oberon would like to make him a knight, but Titania does not agree. To punish his wife Oberon sends his Puck servant to seize a magical flower whose juice can be applied on a person's eyelid's lobe to make him fall in love with the first person to be awakened. Puck finds the flower and Oberon communicates his plans to apply the magical juice to the dormant Titania eyebrow. Having seen Demetrius act cruelly with Helena, he also orders Puck to put some of that potion on the eyelids of the young Athenian. In the woods Puck meets Lysander and Hermia and, believing that Lysander is the Athenian he spoke to Oberon, he applies the potion to his eyes. When she wakes up she sees Helena first, and falls in love with her, abandoning Hermia. Over the course of the night, Puck seeks to remedy her mistake, ending to fall in love with both Lysander and Demetrius of Helena, who believes that they are playing her. Hermia becomes so jealous of Helena to challenge her in a fight. Even Demetrius and Lysander almost come to fight for Helena's love, but Puck confuses them by mimicking their voices and losing them in the forest. When Titania awakens, the first creature she sees is Bottom, the most ridiculous of Athenian craftsmen as Puck, for a joke, turned his head into that of a donkey. Titania, under the effect of the enchantment of the magical flower, has fallen in love with him. Things, however, eventually return to normal: Oberon succeeds in getting the Indian prince to become a knight and Puck can pour the love potion on Lysander's eyes that returns to his original love for Hermia. Theseus and Hippolyta find out lovers asleep in the forest and bring them back to Athens to get married; Demetrius now loves Helena and Lysander loves Hermia. After the group wedding, the spouses attend the comedy prepared by Bottom and his comrades - a comic and hilarious version of the story of Pyramid and Tisbe. When the show is over, the four young men retire and the fairies come to bless the sleeping couples with a spell and then disappear. Only Puck remains, to ask the audience for forgiveness a belong to the classical world, have names of instruments and crafts of the time and approval and remember that everything was just a dream.

]]> 2017-10-12 14:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jacopo_servidio69/tmz36ujw549y/wish/196461377 THE THEMES jacopo_servidio69 https://padlet.com/jacopo_servidio69/tmz36ujw549y/wish/196466179 The main themes that we find in the Dream of a Midnight Summer are Magic and, precisely, Dream.
The magic of fairies, which creates some of the most bizarre and funny comedy situations, is a central element in the fantastic atmosphere of the Dream. Shakespeare uses magic to represent the almost supernatural power of love, symbolized by the magic flower juice, and to create a surreal world. Although erroneous use of magic creates confusion and seems to be worse (like when Puck applies the potion on Lysander's eyelids) it is this that ultimately resolves the tensions of the comedy and restoring the equilibrium in the queen of the young Athenians. Also note how Puck uses magic for its own purposes, as when turning Bottom's head into a donkey head and recreating the voices of Lysander and Demetrius, is in sharp contrast with the unhappy labor of craftsmen they staged their own comedy. And various characters mention dreams in the following verses. The theme of the dream is especially when characters try to explain the bizarre events they are involved, as happens to Bottom, who can not explain the magical events that happened to him unless they attribute them a dreamlike character. Shakespeare is also interested in the very operation of the dream, that is, how, in the dreamlike dimension, time flows completely differently and how impossible things happen without looking like that. So try to recreate these conditions in the comedy thanks to the presence of fairies in the enchanted forest. At the end of the comedy, Puck extends this dreamlike atmosphere to the whole audience, telling the audience that if he had felt offended by what he saw, he should have remembered it as a simple dream.
In a Midnight Midnight Dream, Shakespeare uses an abundance of rhetorical models, parallelisms, word games and classic allusions. The genius of Shakespeare intersects three different worlds, each characterized by its characteristic language:
that of fairies, where songs, rhymes and magic formulas prevail;
that of lovers, where the rhymes of love lyric reign, used mainly for untiring bickering;
that of artisans, who speak in a prose often interrupted by a clumsy parody of the more aulic verses.
There is no unique source for the Dream but you can identify various elements Shakespeare has collected and fused together, immersing them in a perfect balance between fantasy and reality. A first reference is the story of Teseo, known to Shakespeare especially through The Knight's Tale of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, where Teseo is a Duke of Athens and a new Hippolytus's groom. Shakespeare probably also took on Plutarch's Parallel Scenes, certainly in Sir Thomas North's version of 1579, a text he was constantly used for both comedies and tragedies. The story of lovers and lovers of love may come from Diana of Jorge de Montemayor, a pastoral novel of 1559.
Characters' names also deserve an analysis. The name of the Titanic queen queen is drawn from the favorite poet of Bardo, Ovid, from which comes the many hints and remarks to the Metamorphosis present throughout the comedy, such as the story of Pyramid and Tisbe or the metamorphosis of Bottom, in turn debtor of the Apuleius Gold Bear. Puck, which is just as common name as 2, is a character of English folklore and expresses the British conception of spirits, which are jolly and mischievous but always available to help when needed and to bring luck to those who deserve it. That Oberon was king of fairies and elves was already a known belief and his character had already appeared on the Elizabethan scenes in Robert Greene's drama The Scottish History of James IV (1590). The form of Athenian names, which is a mixture of Greek and Latin, is typical of English literature of the time.

]]> 2017-10-12 14:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jacopo_servidio69/tmz36ujw549y/wish/196466179 THE CHARACTERS jacopo_servidio69 https://padlet.com/jacopo_servidio69/tmz36ujw549y/wish/196467953 1. Oberon: He has a certain temper and is very determined, he prefers his authority just like a king. At the beginning of the story is in conflict with Titania, the queen of fairies and her bride. Oberon is jealous of her, for the sake of a pony. Therefore, being very vindictive, it is on Titania's eyes as she sleeps, the juice of a flower. As soon as her bride wakes up, she will love anyone who sees herself. This vengeance reflects human defects. Oberon for an affront to his wife, he looks for a solution to make his offense unnoticed. In this way Oberon comes down like humans and his position of King of Fairies is quickly denied. However, he is also capable of doing good deeds, in fact trying to help the young Elena, rejected by Demetrio. He is not the first person to finish the job, but his assistant. In fact, Oberon is the "brain", which idealizes strategies, while his assistant is the "arm" that performs it.

2. Titania: He does not have the characteristics of the humble and subdued queen, but treats his groom with aversion and pride, making his worthy reasons. He does not fear reproach for his behavior. Titania is very pampered by the fairies of the kingdom and takes advantage of the charge she covers, serving and flirting like a goddess. The fairies do not miss her, they are ready to sing even a nose to make her fall asleep. They watch over her as sentinels and they are very devoted to her. Titania does not look like a queen of the deadly world, is too frivolous, too spoiled and thinks more to herself than to others. Satisfying every need, even if this may be disrupted by someone, like her husband. In fact, having a good-looking young man as a pile is a testament to his selfishness.

3. Lisandro and Ermia: it is the loving couple who must face an obstacle in order to live their love in serenity. They represent sincere love, the love born of their hearts naturally. Their words are sweet and full of feeling, but do not touch the pathetic or the stupidity, is the so-called "measured love", unusual in a work of Shakespeare, where passion and love are the same thing. They are very united, each of them is ready to support the decision of the other, how to escape from their city.

4. Demetrius and Elena: Unlike Lisandro and Ermia, their love is "artificial", born with the help of magic and therefore not genuine, but procured for a happy ending. In fact, Demetrius rejects Elena with hostile words and the reader feels punished for the fate of the poor woman. Elena seems to have no pride, always gives up, looks at the situation with patience and begs Demetrius's piety. Elena is the excess of submission to par excellence and has a significant role in history, especially because there is a reversal of roles: woman is courting man. Demetrius, on the other hand, has no heart, no pity, and does not even try for a moment to console Elena or speak in a more friendly tone. It becomes impassive and loses humanity, until it changes completely with the help of the spellIng to the classical world, have names of instruments and crafts of the time.

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