Tuesday, May 15, 2007

A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 4 Scene 1

It started with Bottom being slaved over by the fairy servants. Bottom was taking advantage over Titania's love but it didn't matter to Titania. While Bottom was living in luxury, Oberon was feeling depressed over how his wife was in love with a creature so vile and disgusting. After Titania fals asleep, Oberon decides to place the love remedy back into her eyes to erase her love for Bottom. Titania awakes and sees that Oberon has rid her of her curse and she falls back in love with him naturally. They dance the night away with no angry words or insults. As morning approached the young lovers were found by Theseus, who was taking a nice stroll with his wife on his wedding day. After hearing their tale he decided to allow each, Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius and Helena to become married to each other.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 3 Scene 1 and 2

During this scene the actors begin their rehearsal in the woods. As Bottom suddenly disappears to look for the thing that made the noise, the actors yell for his name. While he was away Puck cast a spell on him that turned Bottom's head into a donkey's head and all the actors ran in terror. Bottom being the stubborn man he was went off on his own and began to sing to himself. As he came closer, Titania awoke to see him singing and she magically fell in love.
Lysander continued to ignore Hermia because of the love spell that was placed on him by Puck. When Hermia had met up with Helena and Demetrius all hell broke loose. The two men fought for Helena, both Helena and Hermia were confused of what was going on, and the girls got into a major fight. Towards the ending of the scene, Puck comes in to play and makes Demetrius and Lysander extremely tired so they were forced to go to sleep. As Lysander fell asleep, Puck came and placed the cure into Lysander's eyes.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

A Midsummer's Nights Dream: Act 2 Scene 1 and 2

This is the act that started all the drama of the love triangle. It all began when we were introduced to Puck who is the henchmen of Oberon, the fairy king. Oberon and Titania, the fairy queen, had a huge fight on who would get the young boy that was given to Titania by her friend. When the battle died down Oberon decided to place a spell on Titania which would make her fall in love with the next creature she put her eyes on. As Puck went to retrieve this liquid, Helena and Demetrius show up in the forest pacing quickly. Demitrius was furious at Helena for following him and giving him wrong directions to Hermia so he ended up leaving her alone in the forest. Puck returned with the love potion and was given new orders by Oberon to place some drops into the eyes of an Athenian man that had a maid chasing him with love. Unfortunately, at the time of his orders Hermia and Lysander where taking rest nearby and Puck mistakenly took Lysander for Demetrius and put the drops into his eyes. When Lysander awoke as Helena was by his side he automatically fell in love with her and at that moment Helena became upset, for she thought that Lysander was just teasing her. With a few words she left and Lysander followed leaving Hermia all alone in the forest.
In act 2, it all begins when Puck accidentally placed the love potion into Lysander's eyes instead of Demetrius'. As Helena chases after Demetrius, she spots Lysander sleeping and wakes him up. When Lysander sees Helena, he immediately falls in love with her. He tells Helena how much she loves her and with that she becomes really upset because she believes that Lysander is playing with her. Helena leaves in a hurry and Lysander follows but leaves hermia to wake up all alone.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

A Midsummer's Nights Dream:Act 1 Scene 1 and 2

This act was about how Hermia and Lysander had fought to find their love. Egeus was against Hermia loving Lysander and he wanted Hermia to marry Demetrius. Theseus made the proposal that if hermia did not chose to marry Demetrius she would either die or become a nun. After the discussion about Hermia, Lysander asked Hermia if she would marry him beyond the law of Athens. As they talked about where they would get married, Helena stepped in to overhear their conversation and she concocted a plan to make Demetrius notice her.
In act 2 the group of actors met to discuss the roles of the play for "Pyramus and Thisby". There was an actor named Bottom who believes that he can play all the parts because he is a great actor. A man named Flute was given a woman's part as Thisby and he was not very fond of the idea. After the long discussion for who gets what part, they decided to rehearse in the forest outside Athens.