How Does Helena React To Demetrius's Verbal Abuse

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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With themes of love and friendship, your students volition enjoy studying Shakespeare'south one-act, A Midsummer Dark's Dream. This didactics guide includes act summaries, discussion questions, and extensions intended to further engage your students in the classroom.

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DETAILED STUDY QUESTIONS

The following questions can exist used in a multifariousness of means: as formal written report guides, class discussion starters, or review for a test. Since the action in the play is somewhat confusing, these questions will also help to keep the action direct.

Act I, scene i

1. How is Hippolyta's reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days volition pass unlike from that of Theseus? Note how Shakespeare portrays the patience and calmness of Hippolyta in contrast to the impatience and need for action of Theseus.
2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus look him to exercise?
3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian lodge according to Egeus and Theseus?
4. What is Theseus's ruling concerning Hermia?
5. How does Lysander's comment about Demetrius's previous love affair with Helena complicate things?
6. What practise Lysander and Hermia programme to practise most this seemingly incommunicable state of affairs?
7. Why do they tell Helena what they plan to practise?
8. Even though Helena loves Demetrius and is Hermia'southward all-time friend, why does she make up one's mind to tell Demetrius of Hermia and Lysander's plans?

Human action I, scene ii

1. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts?
   
2. How do you suppose the threat of being handed if they scare the ladies will affect the artisans' estimation of the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisby?
   
3. In what way is this scene funny? Why do yous suppose Shakespeare included this scene?
   
4. Where are the actors to meet the following nighttime? Who else is meeting in these same woods at the same fourth dimension?

Act II, scene i

1. What does the reader discover out nigh the electric current relationship between Oberon, Male monarch of the Fairies, and Titania, Queen of the Fairies, from Puck and the get-go fairy?
   
2. How accept Oberon and Titania been involved in the by with Theseus and Hippolyta, and why take they come up to Athens?
   
3. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans?
   
4. Why won't Titania give up the changeling to Oberon?
   
5. What does Oberon ship Puck to notice?
   
6. What are Oberon'south plans for Titania?
   
7. How does Helena react to Demetrius's verbal corruption?
   
8. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse?
   
9. In what way is Helena's behavior inappropriate for Athenian women?
   
10. What does Oberon tell Puck to exercise about Demetrius and Helena?

Deed II, scene ii

1. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing?
   
2. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a footling ways from her?
   
3. Why does Puck anoint Lysander'due south eyes?
   
4. How does Helena react to Lysander's sudden love for her when he awakens?
   
5. How is Hermia's dream a reflection of reality?

Deed III, scene i

1. How are the actors going to proceed from scaring the ladies when Pyramus kills himself or when the lion roars?
   
2. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such equally the moonlight and the wall?
   
3. Why practice the rest of the actors run off when Bottom reappears?
   
4. What does Puck plan to do when he follows later on the other actors?
   
5. How does Bottom react to Titania and the other fairies?
   
6. Bottom says, "...reason and dearest keep little company together nowadays." Why is this such an apt statement at this indicate in the play?

Deed Iii, scene ii

1. What does Hermia accuse Demetrius of doing?
   
2. How are Puck and Oberon going to correct Puck's earlier mistake?
   
3. Why is Helena upset when Demetrius says he loves her? Isn't this what she had wanted all along?
   
4. Of what does Helena accuse Hermia?
   
5. How close had Hermia and Helena been in the past?
   
6. How does Lysander treat Hermia? Why tin't she believe what he says?
   
7. Of what does Hermia accuse Helena?
   
8. Why is Helena afraid of Hermia?
   
9. What are Lysander and Demetrius going off to practise?
   
10. What does Oberon tell Puck to exercise nigh the ii young men?
    
11. What is Oberon going to do most Titania?
    
12. Why doesn't Oberon fear the coming of day?
    
13. How well does Puck's trickery work?

Act IV, scene i

1. How has Bottom adjusted to the attention of Titania and her fairies?
   
2. What is Oberon's reaction to Titania's infatuation with Bottom?
   
3. What sort of explanation will Oberon make to Titania'due south question virtually what happened to her? Do yous think he will tell her the truth?
   
4. Why are Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, and the others out in the woods so early in the morn?
   
5. What is Theseus's first explanation of why the young people are comatose in the woods?
   
6. What caption does Demetrius make? Why does he compare his dearest for Hermia to an affliction?
   
7. What is Theseus's determination apropos the iv young people?
   
8. Why tin can't the young people be sure whether they are awake or dreaming?
   
9. Lesser believes he too has had a dream. How is he going to use that dram to entertain the Duke?

Act IV, scene ii

1. What opinion do the other artisans now have of Bottom since they think he is lost?
   
2. What practice they most regret losing by not beingness able to perform the play?
   
3. Why must the artisans hurry to the Duke's palace?

Human activity 5

1. Why does Theseus dismiss the stories of the four young people?
   
2. Why does Theseus choose to see the play about Pyramus and Thisby rather than the other entertainments?
   
3. Why does Philostrate try to keep Theseus from seeing the play? What does he say is incorrect with it?
   
4. What does Theseus hateful by the lines, "For never anything tin be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender information technology"?
   
5. What is accomplished by having the Prologue tell the whole story that the actors are then going to enact?
   
6. How does Shakespeare use the comments from the audience to heighten the sense of humour of the play that they are watching?
   
7. What is Hippolyta's reaction to the play?
   
8. In what way is Thisby's terminal speech humorous?
   
9. What does Oberon tell the fairies to do?
   
10. What is the purpose of Puck'south concluding speech communication?
    

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