Hermia Monologue

My group chose to depict the scene where Hermia finds her friends in the woods. She has found Lysander, her love, now in love with Helena because of a love potion Puck mistakenly puts on him. She also finds Demetrius, who was courting her and seemed to hate Helena but is now in love with Helena due to the efforts Oberon put into fixing Puck's mistake. And we also find Helena who thinks this is all a joke and that everybody is just trying to mess with her. We chose this scene because it had enough characters to suit our group members. It also seemed like a scene where even though we aren't strong actors the character's emotions would be obvious. The scene also seemed like it would be fun to direct and act. We didn't start at the beginning of the scene because we felt if we did too many pages, we wouldn't have time to finish our project in the time that we were given. So we narrowed it down to the parts of the scene we thought most significant. And so our act starts off with a …show more content…
vile thing, let loose, or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!" With this line from Lysander we have Hermia hanging on to his leg, which is kind of a metaphor for her hanging on to her and Lysander's love, and then we have Lysander literally shake her off. We think with that motion it shows how strong the love potion has changed Lysander's love for her. He was once pledging his love for Hermia and begging her to just sleep next to her but now he's calling her names and throwing her aside like trash. This is one of the acting and directorial choices we made. Another one is when Lysander tells Demetrius "What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead? Although I hate her, I'll not harm her so." Hermia's next lines are about how Lysander couldn't do her more harm if he hated her. She's confused as to how his love could've shifted over night when the day before they were planning to elope. We tried to show the confusion that Hermia was going