What makes bottom such a comic figure in "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"?
Written in the mid-1590s, probably shortly before Shakespeare turned to Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of his strangest and most delightful creations, and it marks a departure from his earlier works and from others of the English Renaissance. The play demonstrates both the extent of Shakespeare’s learning and the expansiveness of his imagination. The range of references in the play is among its most extraordinary attributes: Shakespeare draws on sources as various as Greek mythology (Theseus, for instance, is loosely based on the Greek hero of the same name, and the play is peppered with references to Greek gods and goddesses); English country fairy lore (the character of Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, was a popular figure in sixteenth-century stories); and the theatrical practices of Shakespeare’s London (the craftsmen’s play refers to and parodies many conventions of English Renaissance theater, such as men playing the roles of women). Further, many of the characters are drawn from diverse texts: Titania comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Oberon may have been taken from the medieval romance Huan of Bordeaux, translated by Lord Berners in the mid-1530s. Unlike the plots of many of Shakespeare’s plays, however, the story in A Midsummer Night’s Dream seems not to have been drawn from any particular source but rather to be the original product of the playwright’s imagination. http://www.bookrags.com/A_Midsummer_Nigh... http://www.bookrags.com/notes/mnd/ http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/ms... http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitN... http://www.novelguide.com/AMidsummerNigh... http://www.campusnut.com/book.cfm?articl... http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monk... http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/T... http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barr...
A Midsummer Night By Shakespeare HELP?
1. How does Bottom become an ***? What is the reason for this strange event? 2. What does Oberon realize when he sees Demetrius following Hermia? 3. What causes Helena to become angry with Hermia? In your opinion, why does Helena refuse to believe her friend and her would-be lovers? 4. In act 3, what emotion does Oberon show he is capable of? How does he show this? 5. Think of characters from television or the movies who are tricksters like Puck. Why might audiences enjoy watching the antics of such characters?
How did Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream influence the plot of Die Hard?
On the director's commentary, John McTiernan held forth with the idea that he presented the story as A Midsummer Night's Dream. Here’s my own analysis, based on what he said. Hans Gruber is Oberon. The terrorists are the faeries, the supernatural force that affects the lovers. Holly is Titania (“wooed” or at least abducted by Gruber) and Bruce Willis is Nick Bottom, who has a relationship with Titania, can move between the worlds of the mechanicals (the cops and the press) and the “faeries”. The Athenian lovers being put through hell by the faeries are…the hostages. The unifinished upper floors of the building are the enchanted forest....and Theo the hacker (close to “Theseus”, a character in the play) is the trickster Puck.
Why do you like A Midsummer Night's Dream?
This is a perennial favorite, done over and over again by companies large and small, for the following reasons: 1) it ends very strong - the amateur production by the “rude mechanics” is piss-your-pants” funny when staged properly; 2) staging is almost infinitely variable - I’ve seen it on a set costing $50K and in an entirely bare space - works either way; 3) there’s a pleasant confusion to the story - while the run around like rats in a maze, the audience understands everything, and can be confident that everyone will end up with the right person.
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom, Flute, and Snout have names that are puns on ... (Homework help)?
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom, Flute, and Snout have names that are puns on A. malapropisms. B. their physical appearance. C. famous people of that day. D. their trade or employment.
. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom, Flute, and Snout have names that are puns on?
Alexia, hmm, A Midsummer Night's Dream is FULL of puns on names. One could think it's physical appearance but I will go with: B) Their trade. Nick Bottom is a weaver; he is a weaver in the deeper sense too-Bottom is supremely capable of uniting disparate worlds. He is indeed the reel on which the thread is wound and his very person embodies the union of reality and illusion. Flute is a bellows-maker and a flute is a nozzle on a bellows that expels the air. Snout is a tinker, and so associated with fixing kettles characterized by their snout or spout. And others: Snug is a joiner (of pieces of wood for furniture). Starveling is a tailor, associated with weakness and unmanliness. Quince for the carpenter, "quines" are blocks of wood used for building.
Midsummer night's dream malapropism?
The play's at Wikisource, thisaway: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream Bottom is the one with the malapropisms. At this instant, I can think of: I will aggravate my voice so (he probably means "mitigate" or "moderate") there we may rehearse most obscenely (he means "obscurely" = in secret) Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet (he means "odorous") Ninny's tomb (he means Ninnius, as "ninny" = idiot) Use your browser search to find them in the document.
Can you explain the pun in this quote from "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"?
In Act 4 Scene 1, Bottom has the head of a donkey and Titania is in love with him because of the potion. After he persuaded her to give him the Indian boy, Oberon watches Titania doting on Bottom, and he says to Puck: "Welcome, good Robin. See'st thou this sweet sight? Her dotage now I do begin to pity: For meeting her of late behind the wood, Seeking sweet favors for this hateful fool, I did upbraid her, and fall out with her. For she his hairy temples then had rounded With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers" There is supposed to be a pun on "dotage." What is it?
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, who does Titania really love?
Titania loves herself :)She also loves her little fairy servants, which makes sense in the context of 16th-17th century England, where servants were viewed more as children than as separate adult human beings. Today we’d call that condescension, but we cannot use our own perspective in this case.In terms of human love, we cannot answer your question, since Titania is not human. She’s probably immortal (who knows what Shakespeare thought about fairies, after all?!). She doesn’t seem to have offspring of her own. Her interactions with Oberon are certainly reminiscent of archetypal husband/wife disagreements, but also of monarch/monarch disagreements.She certainly behaves in a lustful manner with Bottom-the-ass, but that’s not actually love. (NOTE: neither is the effect on the young folks whom Puck uses the flower juice on.)So I cannot answer *your* question, but I hope I’ve given you some things to think about.