Shakespeare - Main Terms Of A Midsummer’s Night Dream
- Status Quo: Athens Arranged Marriage with Hippolyta & Hermia
- Catalysts: Runaway to the woods
- Turning Points Act 2: “Fairy War” “Jealousy” ‘Helena “Love me please” “Dose
Demitrius”
- Protagonist: Hermia, Lysander, Helena, & the Mechanicals
- Antagonist: Egeus, Theseus, Robin (Puck)
- Themes:
a. Act 1: Arranged Marriage
b. Patriarchy
c. Obedience
d. Love Rebellion
e. Act 2: Jealousy
f. Love
g. Drug
- Ideas:
a. Patronage - When a wealthy powerful person supports an artist. (Shakespeare was
supported by King James).
b. Cliche - How People In Love Really Behave.
c. Star Crossed Lovers - Interfering with love isn’t a good idea.
d. Fickleness Illogical
Shakespeare - A Midsummer’s Night Dream Act 2
- Scene 1:
- We meet fairies and there’s a fair war going on between Oberon & Titania. The fairy
meets Robin Goodfellow who’s the king’s jester.
- Oberon & Titania meet and talk about how Oberon had an affair with Hipppolyta and
how Titania had an affair with Theseus.
- The natural world is out of whack because of their fight. Titania doesn’t want to give up
the little boy because she was close with his mom since she was a worshiper. He wants
the boy.
- Oberon decides to get revenge and how cupid shot his arrow with a flower. Then he tells
Robin to get the flower, put it in his eyes, make her fall in love with an animal, and take
the boy. It’s about humiliation.
- Oberon goes invisible & hears the convo between Demetrius & Helena. Demetrius wants
nothing to do with Helena but she loves him. “Love is in the mind not the eye”
- Oberon tells Robin to put the flower in Demetrius’s eyes because she deserves love.
- Scene 2:
- Fairies put a spell on Titania to stay safe, but Oberon puts the flower juice in her eyes.
