Monday, March 23, 2009

A Midsummer Nights Dream- Act 3

Scene 1- This scene begins in the forest where the men are rehearsing for the play that they will put on at Theseus's wedding. Bottom is naturally changing everything around while the others just watch. Then they all decide to take all the violence out of the play so that none of the ladies will be afraid. Robin(puck) casts a spell on Bottom when he is hiding in the bushes waiting for his next part turning him into a man with a head of a donkey because he thought he was acting like one. When Bottom reappears everyone is frightened and runs away. Then Titania wakes up ans falls madly in love with Bottom, donkey head and all and orders her fairies to serve Bottom.

Scene 2- During this scene Lysander is still following Helena as well as Demetrius. Meanwhile Hermia is dreadfully confused about what has happened to Lysander who used to love her. Helena is also confused and thinks that all three of them are playing a trick on her. Then she and Hermia get into a big fight because of this whole situation and misunderstandings. Then Oberon finds out that Puck has made a mistake he orders Puck(Robin) to fix it. So he leads Demetrius and Lysander away as well as Helena and Hermia until they are tired and fall asleep. He then sprinkles the undo potion on Lysander to fix everything then exits.

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