Please read Act III for Monday.
What is going on in Act III for your character?
Please summarize the scene.
What words did you look up?
Were there any new allusions for you?
If so, what?
By showing us these couples, their lives and loves transformed by potions and magic,
what does Shakespeare want us to learn while we are laughing?
Often, at the heart of every comedy, is some truth we recognize in ourselves.
What are you learning about young love as you look at the trials and tribulations of Demetrius, Hermia, Lysander and Helena?
What makes Titania and Bottom's situation entertaining (besides the mask Garrett will wear on Monday)?
Is Oberon getting his revenge?
Some words to know for Act 3-
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I am learning that young love is foolish. You can't make someone fall in love with you. It just happens on it's own.
In Act three my character (Peter Quince) finds a good plot of land to practice the play on. In the middle of the scene Puck turns Bottom into a donkey and all of the mechanics run away scared. Because my character talks in pretty much normal words i didn't have to look up many words. It was all pretty easy to understand.
ReplyDeleteIn Act 3, Shakespeare wants us to learn that love can't be forced and if you try to force it to work, it will mess everything up. The situation between Titania and Bottom is that even Titania is married to Oberon, he is still trying to make Titania fall in love with Bottom. In Act 3, I, Puck, turn Bottom's head into the head of a donkey. Then I realize that i put the love potion on the wrong people and Oberon gives me another flower to cancel out the potion, so they won't be in love anymore.
ReplyDeleteNothing happens to my character, Hippolyta, in this act. I understood almost all of the words in this act, and the ones I did not know were explained on the side of the page.
ReplyDeleteIn act 3, my character puts nectar from the flower on Titania's eyes and Puck puts the nectar on Lysanders eyes instead of Demetrius' eyes. The nectar is like a love potion that makes anyone fall in love with the next person they lay eyes on. The Titania and Bottom situation is entertaining because a supernatural being falls in love with a mortal.
ReplyDeleteIn Act 3 Oberon uses the nectar from the flower he had puck find, and puts it on Titania's eyes to make her fall in love with the first thing she sees. Puck then does this Lysander thinking that he is Demetrius and that he is going to fall in love with Helena. After this Puck continues his mischief by turning Bottom head, into a donkey's head. It then turns out that Lysander falls in love with Helena, and Titania falls in love with the now-donkey headed Bottom. So in this act my character (Snout) is basically with all the mechanicals rehearsing in the woods, and then he runs away in shock when he sees Bottom head. So, overall this scene was very eventful and is pretty much the climax.
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ReplyDeleteMy character goes into the woods to practice the play with the rest of the mechanicals. Bottom gets his head turned into a donkey and his friends leave him there. Titania falls in love with him when she wakes up.
ReplyDeletemy character Demetrius gets into a quarrel with Lysander over the love "square" with himself, lysander, hermia and helena. Then myself and Lysander go off to duel to the death for Helena's love.
ReplyDeletemy character Demetrius gets into a quarrel with Lysander over the love "square" with himself, lysander, hermia and helena. Then myself and Lysander go off to duel to the death for Helena's love.
ReplyDeleteIn Act III, I fall asleep in the woods and Puck drops a possion in my eyes that makes me fall in love with the next thing I see, which happens to be Bottom. Bottom is not the most attractive character but my love is blind. Throughout this Act, Shakespeare tries to show us that love is blind but cannot be forced.
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