English Midnight Summer

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Lovers Plot Outline

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Lovers Plot Outline


Initial conflict:
There is a lot of unrequited love and obstacles in the way of the lovers desires.


Complications:
1. The Seus says Hernia must marry Demetrius.
2. Lysander and Hernia run away.
3.Demetrius and Helery a follow.
4. The fairies use of the love potion changes the desires of the lovers but doesn't solve their problems.



Climax:
Big argument among the four lovers that leaves them running around lost in forest.

Resolution:
Further use of a love potion straightens out the mess. Every one ends up married and happily in love.

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The Mechanicals Plot Outline

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Initial conflict:
The workmen need to rehearse a play to present for the Royals. This is difficult because they are mostly bumbling and poor actors and time is short.

Complication (plot twist) resulting in new conflict:
Bottom, the lead actor, is transformed into a donkey-head and detained by Titania. The other actors spend the night running around in the forest.


Climax:
Just before bottom is released from the spell.

Resolution:
The spell is removed from Bottom. The actors are reunited. The mechanicals are given the opportunity to perform their play for the Royals.

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Royals Plot Outline

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Initial conflict:

Thesus and Hippolyta are anxious to be married and it seems that time is passing slowly.


Climax:

Just before they got married.


Resolution:

They are married on the planned date along with the two young couples. Every one celebrates.

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The Fairies Plot Outline

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Initial conflict:
Titania and Oberon both want the Indian boy and the Fairies fighting cause disruption in the natural world.


Complication (plot twist) resulting in new conflict:
In order to get the boy, Oberon uses the love potion on Titiania causing her to fall in love with Bottom (with donkey head)


Climax:
Titiania is fully in love with Bottom and (in Oberon opinion) making a fool of herself.



Resolution:
Titania gives Oberon the Indian boy. Oberon removes the spell. Oberon and Titania are back on good terms. All is right with the World.

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Theseus

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Duke of Athens, who is marrying Hippolyta as the play begins. He decrees that Hermia must marry Demetrius or be sentenced either to death or to life in a convent. At the end of the play, he insists that all of the lovers marry along with him and Hipployta and provides a humorous commentary to accompany the performance of "Pyramus and Thisbe."

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Hippolyta

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Queen of the Amazons, she is betrothed to Theseus. These two were once enemies, and Theseus won her in battle. In this play, she seems to have lost much of her fighting spirit, though she does not hesitate to voice her opinion, for example, following Theseus' choice of the play "Pyramus and Thisbe."

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Lysander

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Hermia's beloved. Egeus does not approve of Lysander, though we don't know why. Lysander claims to be Demetrius' equal, and the play supports this claim — the differences between the two lovers are negligible, if not nonexistent — yet Egeus insists Hermia marry Demetrius. Rather than lose his lover in this random way, Lysander plans to escape with her to his widowed aunt's home. During a night in the forest, Lysander is mistakenly doused by Puck with Oberon's love juice, causing him to fall briefly in love with Helena. Realizing the mistake, Oberon makes Puck reverse the spell, so by the end of the play, Lysander and Hermia are once again in love and marry.

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Demetrius

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He is in love with Hermia, and her father's choice of a husband for her. Similar to Lysander in most ways, Demetrius' only distinguishing characteristic is his fickleness in love. He once loved Helena but has cruelly abandoned her before the play begins. Not only does he reject Helena's deep love for him, but he vows to hurt, even rape, her if she doesn't leave him alone. With the help of Oberon's love juice, he relinquishes Hermia and marries Helena at the end of the play. Demetrius is the only character who is permanently affected by Oberon's love juice.

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Hermia

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Although she loves Lysander, her father insists she marry Demetrius or be put to death for disobedience of his wishes. Theseus softens this death sentence, declaring that Hermia choose Demetrius, death, or life in a convent. Rather than accept this dire fate, Hermia agrees to run away with Lysander. During the chaotic night in the woods, Hermia is shocked to see her beloved abandon her and declare his love for Helena. She is unaware of the mischief Oberon's love juice is playing with Lysander's vision. By the play's end, Puck has reversed the spell, and Lysander's true love for Hermia has been restored. Despite her father's continued opposition to their union, the two marry with Theseus' blessing.

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Helena

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She is the cruelly abused lover of Demetrius. Before the play begins, he has abandoned her in favor of Hermia. Helena doesn't understand the reason for his switch in affection, because she is as beautiful as Hermia. Desperate to win him back, Helena tries anything, even betraying Hermia, her best childhood friend, by revealing to the jealous Demetrius Lysander and Hermia's plan to escape Athens. With the help of Oberon's love juice, Demetrius finally falls back in love with Helena, and the two are married at the end of the play

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Oberon

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he King of the Fairies, Oberon is fighting with Titania when the play begins because he wants custody of an Indian boy she is raising. He hatches a plan to win the boy away from her by placing love juice in her eyes. This juice causes her to fall rashly in love with Bottom. During her magic-induced love affair, Oberon convinces her to relinquish the boy, who Oberon will use as a page. Once he has the boy, Oberon releases Titania from her spell, and the two lovers are reunited. Oberon also sympathizes with Helena and has Puck place love juice in Demetrius' eyes so he falls in love with her. After Puck mistakenly anoints Lysander, Oberon insists Puck fix his mistake so that the true lovers are together by the end of the play. In the final scene, he and Titania bless all of the newlyweds.

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Titania

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Oberon's wife, she is Queen of the Fairies. Because of Titania's argument with Oberon, the entire human and natural world is in chaos. Oberon wants the Indian boy she is protecting, but Titania refuses to give him up because when his mother died in childbirth, she agreed to raise the boy. Following Oberon's application of the love juice to her eyes, Titania falls in love with Bottom, and Oberon takes the Indian boy from her. Once he has the boy, Oberon releases the spell, and he and Titania are reunited.

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Puck, or Robin Goodfellow

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Oberon's jester, Puck is responsible for mistakenly anointing Lysander with the love juice intended for Demetrius. Puck enjoys the comedy that ensues when Lysander and Demetrius are both in love with Helena but follows Oberon's orders to reunite the correct lovers. Puck has the final words of the play, emphasizing that the entire play was just a dream.

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Nick Bottom

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A weaver, Bottom plays Pyramus. He is the most outgoing of the group of actors, wishing to play all of the characters in "Pyramus and Thisbe." Puck transforms him into an ass, and Titania falls in love with him. When Puck returns Bottom to his normal self, Bottom can't speak about what happened to him but vows to have Peter Quince write about it in a ballad to be called "Bottom's Dream."

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Egeus

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Hermia's tyrannical father. He capriciously declares that she must marry Demetrius or be put to death for disobedience; according to the law of Athens, daughters must obey their fathers or forfeit their lives. At the end of the play, he is shocked to learn that Lysander and Hermia tried to flee Athens and insists they should be punished. Theseus overrules him, making the lovers marry instead.

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Philostrate

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Theseus' Master of Revels, he arranges the selection of performances for Theseus' wedding. He tries to dissuade the wedding party from choosing "Pyramus and Thisbe" but is overruled by Theseus.

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Peter Quince

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A carpenter and the director of the group of actors who perform "Pyramus and Thisbe," which he has written for the celebration following Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding.

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Francis Flute

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A bellows-mender, Flute plays the role of Thisbe. He is displeased to be given a woman's role because he wants to let his beard grow, but Quince assures him that he can play the part in a mask.

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Tom Snout

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Snout is a tinker and plays the role of Wall in "Pyramus and Thisbe."

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Snug

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A joiner, he plays the lion in "Pyramus and Thisbe."

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Robin Starveling

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A tailor, he represents Moonshine in "Pyramus and Thisbe."

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Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed

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Titania's fairies.

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1# Pick a quote and describe

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Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; / Brief as the lightning in the collied night.
(Lysander describes to Hermia how quickly true love can be destroyed.)

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2# Pick a quote and describe

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I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.
(The asinine Bottom declares to Titania that he needs a nap)

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3# Pick a quote and describe

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I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.
(The asinine Bottom declares to Titania that he needs a nap)

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Describe Midnight Summer Dream

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Name A Midsummer Night’s Dream Worksheet

Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

Genre: Play/Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy

Settings:
Where: Ancient Antens, Court of Thesues, Forest outside of Athens.
When: Days of Ancient Greece midsummer.

Plots: On the lines below, identify the multiple plots in the play. Then outline each plot on a separate page.
Plots 1: The Royals Plot
Plots 2: The Lovers Plot
Plots 3: The Mechanicals Plot
Plots 4: The Fairies Plot.


Characters: (On the back side of this page, list characters and briefly identify them.)

Tone: Playful and Lighthearted.

Mood: Comedic, Mysterious joyous, Chaotic Unpredictable.

Style: Old English, iambic pentameter free verse and rhymes, allusions play within a play, Multiple plots.

Symbols: The Indian boy, The love potion the play within a play the forest.

Themes: Love, Magic (mystery), desire Authority ( Rules,Law) Imagination.

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Important information about Internet Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

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Questions you need to ask about every Web site you explore:
• Who created this Web site?
• Why did the organization or person create the Web site?
• When was the Web site created and when was it last updated?
• How accurate and reliable is the content? (Look for bias.)

Warning signs that the information on a Web site may be biased:
• The Web site is trying to sell you something.
• The Web site has links to other sites trying to sell you something.
• The Web site does not provide information about the author.
• The Web site is run by one person who provides only an email address or P.O. Box.
• The Web site is full of typos or factual errors.
• The Web site has not been updated for a long time.
• The Web site provides links to other sites that have been abandoned or have not been updated for a long time.

Five strategies for avoiding plagiarism:
• Acknowledge someone else’s ideas.
• Identify the source (unless the statement is common knowledge).
• Use your own words (paraphra