r turned from milky white to purple from love’s wound. This flower now has juices in it that, when placed upon the eyelids of a sleeping person(/thing) shall make them fall in love with the first living thing they see when they awake. This flower plays an essential role in the story. It is the flower that Puck uses to create the confusion that is most of the II-IV acts. Without the whole idea of this flower, A Midsummer Night’s Dream would be nonexistent. The main ideas of the play, (a big part of what happens in the play) are centred on the confusion and problems that the flower has provided. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, two of the main characters, Demetrius and Lysander, who both loved Hermia in the beginning of the play (I, II.i.). After they were anointed with the pansy altered by Cupid’s arrow, they both end up loving Helena. The scenes in the wood with these four characters are mainly about the arguments between the men of who shall have Helena’s love, and who should be stuck with Hermia. These scenes are also of Helena and Hermia’s confusion and frustration with the whole matter. 2.) Give a concise re-cap of the entire play. (I.-V.) Mention the main events of each scene. Act I. -Scene i. Hippolyta and Theseus, the Duke and Duchess of Athens are to be wed in four days. Hermia’s father is trying to force her to marry Demetrius, but she is in love with Lysander. Helena is in love (lust?) with Demetrius but he cannot stand her. (This scene helps establish the general ideas of the play, as well as four of the main characters.) -Scene ii. [This scene establishes another group of characters, the clowns (working men of Athens).] The six men (Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snout and Starveling) are discussing the play they are planning to perform at Hippolyta and Thesus’ wedding after-party, Pyramus and Thisby. Bottom changes his mind and wishes for every part, including his own, at first. Ac...
