a lion amoung ladies is a most dreadful thing | Bottom (3.1.26-27)Bottom’s comment on the problem posed by the appearance of a lion in thier play. Bottom is unintelligent for believing the women will truely be afraid of the lion. |
What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,So near the cradle of the fairy queen? | Robin (3.1.63-64)Robin is talking to himself and wondering who the Mechanincals are and why they are around teh Queen of the Fairies (Titania). |
Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated | Quince (3.1.100)Quince realizes Bottom is wearing the donkey head mask and leaves from fear of him. |
What angel wakes me from my flowery bed? | Titania (3.1.109)Titania is waking-up for the first time after Oberon applied the love-in-idleness serum to her eyes; meaning, Titania will fall in love with the first thing she sees, Bottom with the donkey head. |
Out of this wood do not desire to go. | Titania (3.1.130)Titania is in love with Bottom and tells him not to bother even wanting to leave the forest because he is staying there whether he likes it or not. |
Lord, what fools these mortals be! | Robin (3.2.115)Robing states that humans are fools because they are so easily manipulated by magic and love. |
So we grew together,Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yeat an union in partition;Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart | Helena (3.2.209)Helena is comparing herself to Hermia; they were born and raised the same way but are still wwo different individuals(This is an example of doubling between Helena and Hermia) |
Oh, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd!She was a vixen when she went to school;And though she be but little, she is fierce. | Helena (3.2.323-325)Helean tells Lysander and Demetrius that Hermia can fight when she is mad, no matter how short she is. |
night’s swift dragons cut the clouds full fast.And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger;At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to churchyards | Robin (3.2.379-382)Robin tells Oberon the morning is coming soon an dthe shosts will have to return to their homes, the graveyards. |
Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. | Robin (3.2.440-441)Robin states his opinion tha tCupid is bad for making women crazy over love, like he is doing with Helena and Hermia, who are upset and exhausted. |
Jack shall have Jill;Nought shall go ill;The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well. | Robin (3.2.461-463)Robin sys everyone will be with the right partner and all will be well when the couples wake-up. |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
July 20, 2019