Midsummer Night's Dream

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The rising action begins when the young Athenians go to sleep in the woods, Puck squeezes the love potion into the eyes of Lysander and declares that in the morning, everything shall return back to normal. Puck and Oberon enter into the glade to find Titania in love with Bottom, and celebrate the successes of their revenge. Oberon orders the exchange of the Indian boy for the antidote for the love spell, and Titania complies. Oberon and Titania leave and Puck returns Bottom's head to that of a human. Theseus enters to find the Athenian lovers asleep, and as he wakes them, beckons the youths to join him at his wedding feast. After Theseus and Hippolyta are wedded (as are Demetrius and Helena as well as Lysander and Hermia), …show more content…
The story A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set in ancient Athens and the wood just outside it. The very first sentence says “There was a law in the city of Athens…” telling the reader the initial setting.The other setting in when Shakespeare changes into a magic place with fairies. On page three it says “The wood in which Lysander and Hermia proposed to meet was the favourite haunt of those little beings known by the name of Fairies” telling the reader there is a transition in settings. The narrator also says “Between this little king and queen of sprites there happened, at this time, a sad disagreement; they never met by moonlight in the shady walks of this pleasant wood, but they were quarrelling, till all their fairy elves would creep into acorn-cups and hide themselves for fear” which further supports the idea of a mystical land with …show more content…
Is the point of view objective, so that we see characters only from the outside but do not see into their minds?
The point of view is objective. There is no true insight on the emotions of the characters. The narrator says” he immediately addressed her in terms of extravagant love and admiration; telling her she as much excelled Hermia in beauty as a dove does a raven, and that he would run through fire for her sweet sake; and many more such lover-like speeches”. This show that these emotions that are be expressed are what he is seeing not what they actually feel.

12. Does the point of view change in this work? If so, when? Give an example from the text to support your response.
The point of view does not change. Throughout the story it's consistently in third person point of view.An example would be "Oh!" said she, "why was I born to be mocked and scorned by everyone”? The narrator is quoting what she is saying, this makes the narrator in this scene sort of like the bug on the wall watching.

13. Give 5 examples of figurative language from the selection. List them and give textual evidence to support your response.
Simililie- “And then the moon, like a silver bow New-bent in heaven(original version of

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