Hippolyta Plot

Overall, this essay is going to be directed towards informing the readers about all the different foreshadowing events that occur during the play. For example, there are subtle hints in every known conflict and plot twist. Some are very clear, while others take a few times of reading to realize. To make things easier, chronological order would be most helpful.

There are three distinct levels of action during the play. Firstly, we as the audience see the characters play out the main narratives. Secondly, Shakespeare introduces a play-within-a-play during which the audience observes the mechanicals acting out their tragedy, and thirdly, as part of an epilogue, we are addressed directly by Puck. These differing levels of viewing the play encourages the audience to reflect upon, and compare, the interplay between the levels of address; when the three levels are compared to each other a deeper reading of the play becomes possible, even though the structure is irrational with regards to rational narrative structures. The dramatic conflict is resolved after the fourth act, begging the question of why Shakespeare opted for a play-within-a-play for his final act. The effect of “Nature” (V.i. 278) is contrasted between the main

Although the root of most conflict in the play is the trouble of romance and the play involves many romantic elements, I could rightfully not tell you that is truly a love story. You see, my goal was to distance the audience from the emotional aspect of the play in order to make fun of those in love and suffering. The tone of this play is meant to be lighthearted to the point where the audience does not even doubt that all will end well and can thus freely enjoy the comedic aspect of the play without worrying about what might happen next. Once again, this is reflected in the play-within-a-play. Although the plot of Pyramus and Thisbe is meant to be one of tragedy and love, the product is quite comical and therefore the story does not seem quite as tragic to the

Throughout the play there are many themes leading up to and causing the chief event.

Throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream, while the story involving Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena, Oberon and Titania is developing, the rustic gentlemen (Bottom and his friends) are shown rehearsing for a play that they will perform in honor of the upcoming wedding of Theseus (the Duke of Athens) and Hippolyta. The play, “Pyramus and Thisby,” is based on a story that was told by the ancient Roman writer Ovid and retold by Chaucer. The “Pyramus and Thisby” play is not performed until the fifth and final act of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. By then, as Barton points out, the major problems of Lysander, Demetrius and the rest have all been neatly resolved. As such, the “Pyramus and Thisby” play-within-a-play “seems, in effect, to take place beyond the normal, plot-defined boundaries of comedy” (Barton 110).

central to the play. I am going to look at only the first act of the

“What cheer Hippolyta,” you have asked?Hermia’s situation connects to mine. When you told Hermia “But earthlier happy is the rose distilled Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,” you offended not only her but me and all women. You don’t see us as equals and says that it’s better to marry, have children, than to stay a virgin our whole life. But, what’s the point of getting tied down if it’s without with true love? Moreover, it’s because I’m a woman that I’m able to understand her feelings. Theseus, as much as I don’t agree with your views, I can’t deny that I have no love for you. I am willingly marrying you. But, I hope that I can win your heart and have you see women in another perspective.

Firstly let us consider conflict. In each act of the play, we see the overpowering desire to belong leading to a climax of conflict

As the passage of time marks its quick ascent, the sudden shift from winter to spring and youth into age is marked by the passage of Autolycus as he enters the play singing. “When the daffodils begin to peer, with heigh, the doxy over the dale, why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year, for the red blood reigns in the winter pale” (Act IV, Scene 3, Lines 1-4). Autolycus not only signals the shift from tragedy to comedy, but emphasizes the juxtaposition from winter to spring; a time of rebirth. Therefore, Autolycus serves as the epitome of transformations as the play sharply diverges from the common, albeit serious, tales of tragedy to a shift of miraculous harmony.

In William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” two worlds are distinctly contrasted throughout the play. These worlds serve to be the extremes both in thought and action. One world is the Athenian state; which is governed by order, law and reason; whereas, the forest or fairy world lies within the domain of imagination, where anything is possible. While both worlds are paralleled in the play, they have complex interactions in which the characters succumb to influences to influences from both of them. The ruler’s of these two worlds, Theseus in Athens and Oberon in the Fairy world, play critical roles in the events of the story in which their actions and decisions transform the lives of the young lovers. Theseus’ initial rulings for

shall firstly do a summery of the play and give a basic image of what

3. The exposition of the story is when hermia's dad tells the king that she disobeyed him because she refused to marry demetrius. The rising action is when Hermia runs away into the woods with Lysander (the man Hermia loves). The climax is when puck puts magical juice into Lysander and Demetrius eyes to where both of them love Helena and then Lysander and Demetrius fight over Helena and Hermia gets mad at Helena for stealing her man. The falling action is when Puck fixes the 2 men to where Lysander is back loving Hermia and Demetrius is in love with Helena. The denumont of the story is when the two couples get married.

The protagonist in the story is Paris I found this the main character because the story is mostly about him and what he does in the myth. The antagonist was Zeus I found him to be the antagonist because if he invited Eris to the wedding then Eris wouldn't get made and through the Apple of Discord into the crowd of Greek Olympians.

The play starts with a citizen and his wife disturbing the play “ A London Merchant”. They complain about how they want to see a new kind of play where middle class citizens are not misrepresented. The wife suggests for there to be a grocer in the play that kills a lion with a pestle. The citizen also suggests that his apprentice, Rafe, play this character. This new play takes place in the interrupted play of A London Merchant, where Jasper is in love with his master’s daughter, Luce. Luce also likes Jasper but she arranged to with Humphrey, a man who is pretentious and false, by her father. In order to be able to stay with Jasper she sets up a trap for Humphrey. She tells him that in order to win her heart, a man would have to have the guts to run away with her and elope. Knowing that Humphrey would tell her father and her father would have no objections, she would ditch Humphrey and run away with Jasper. When Jasper seeks help from his mother, Mrs. Merrythought, he is rejected because she favors his brother Michael. The mother decided to leave her husband, a drunk and partier, with nothing but Michael and jewels, but along the way she looses the jewelry in the forest. Around the same time, Jasper and Luce take their plan into action. Jasper knocked out Humphrey and runs a way with Luce. Jasper ends up finding the jewelry his mother had lost. Rafe, the grocer takes it upon himself to aid the damsel in distress, Mrs. Merrythought. The citizen and his wife demand that Rafe have more Chivalric and exotic adventures so Rafe goes on to rescue patients from an evil Barber named Barbaroso. He even goes on to travel to Moldavia, where the princess falls in love with him. Back in Jaspers story, things don’t go as planned. The merchant and Humphrey catch them. Luce is taken back and is locked in her room. Jasper feigns his death and manages to free Luce by

The creative response I have written is a modern parody adaption of act two, scene two and act three, scene two. The theme I have focused on is the complexities of love and the motif of love out of balance which is portrayed throughout the play. I have specifically chosen these scenes to focus on the romantic entanglement between Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius. In these scenes Puck uses a magical love potion to create disturbance and chaos amongst these characters romances.