Love and Themes Chart - All

Themes	Love and Marriage	Order and Disorder
Act I Scene 1	"the course of true love never did run smooth" "I frown upon him but he loves me still" " oh hell to choose love by another's eyes."	Lysander and hermia are going to get married without her fathers knowing.
Act 1 Scene 2	Mostly about the play not a lot of love and marriage	Bottom wants to play a bunch of parts in the play thinking he can do them all.
Act 2 Scene 2	The potion goes onto Titania and Lysanders eyes and when Lysander awakens he falls in love with Helena.	Lysander now no longer loves Hermia.
Act 3 Scene 1	Puck turns Bottom into a donkey and when Titania awakes Bottom is the first person she sees which makes her fall in love with him and he does not know he is a donkey.	The people in the play are not getting along and Bottom thinks they are making an ass of him when he is really a donkey.
Act 3 Scene 2	Puck realizes that Lysander was not who he was supposed to put the potion on and them puts it on Demetrius as well and Demetrius then also falls in love with Helena	Lysander and Demetrius both love Helena and Helena loves Demetrius. Hermia is left alone.
Act 4 Scene 1	Titania explains her love for bottom and bottom loves it. She then later thinks she was dreaming. Lysander and Hermia and Demetrius and Helena lay asleep and are woken up Demetrius still in love with Helena and Lysander now back in love with Hermia. They are now going to have  group wedding	Lysander and Hermia werent aoud to get married before but now they are.
Act 4 Scene 2	no love.	bottom is no where to be found and the play needs him.
Act 5 Scene 1	Lysander and Hermia along with Demetrius and Helena and Thesus and Hipoltya get married	they are all happy.

 

Portfolio - Final Thoughts

·         I enjoyed ... I enjoyed the supernatural things that happened which couldn't have been possible in real life but Shakespeare made it possible on his writing. I also enjoyed the characters and the slight un humane and uniquely funny qualities that they had and the different characteristics. ·         I disliked ... The significant change of language and a lot of it was very hard to follow and know what they were saying. It may be easier for some people than others but I found it very difficult to have the language change like that. I also thought that there was a lot going on at once and I got confused on which story line it was. ·         A question (or questions) I have ... Why did the potion wear off of Lysander but not Demetrius?

Viewing Activity Act V

Viewing Activity: Act V 

Shakespeare uses a number of different techniques to create humor in the play-within-a-play. Some techniques include:

• ·         Breaking the play's illusion of reality 
•  there weren't many props and there was no sets for the play

• ·         Using the wrong word or name
• ninners instead of niners being corrected by the director of the play

• ·         Repeating a word excessively. 
•  die repeatedly said throughout the play. speak, dead.

Make note of examples of these as you watch the play-within-a-play in Act V. 

Hogging the stage. Changing and forgetting lines. No set pieces. Boys playing girls

Act 4 Scene 1 and 2 Portfolio

Act IV Scene i:

1. Review your notes on the Act IV Active Reading Chart. How do most of the dreamers respond to the dream experience upon waking? Which dreamer is permanently changed by the dream experience?

Answer: Most of them do not believe that they had dreamed of it and some are disgusted  and do not want to remember the dream. Demetrius is then permanently changed by this dream and is still in love with Helena, and no longer in love with Hermia.

 

2. How does Theseus' current decision regarding Hermia and Lysander contradict his earlier statement?

Answer: He did not want them to get married and stated that she would be killed or turned into a nun if she did not marry Demetrius but suddenly now she is marrying Lysander.

Act IV Scene ii:

1. What opinion do the other artisans now have of Bottom since they think he is lost?

Answer: They find him to be the best actor and an awesome person and nice and that they need him for the play and no one else can play his part as well as him.

2. What do they most regret losing by not being able to perform the play?

Answer: They need bottom so they cannot perform the play because they think that they need him and no one can replace him.

3. Why must the actors hurry to the Duke’s palace?

Answer:Because they have to perform there play for the wedding now thatbottom is back and can perform with them they have to hurry.

Act 3 Scene 1 - Portfolio

1. Like Helena in the previous scene, Bottom discovers that he is the object of someone's affection. How does his reaction to the discovery compare with Helena's? What does his reaction reveal (or confirm) about his character? 

Answer: 

       Helena felt as though she was being mocked by Lysander because she knew of his love for Hermia and her love for Lysander. She is also best friends with Hermia and does not want to take away her man as she loves Demetrius and not Lysander. She does not want to betray Hermia and thinks it is some sort of plan or joke that Hermia and Lysander are mocking and making fun of her.

     Bottom on the complete opposite was in the mindset that why wouldn't she love him. Like its expected for everyone to love and like him. He is very cocky and thinks that he is the best. Although no one thinks the same way that he does. At this point when Titania falls in love with him because of the potion he is unaware that he looks like a donkey. Bottom expects that everything good should come to him and only him and he also makes it an expectation that it does happen.