Setting: Athens, Greece | Exposition |
Theseus and Hippolyta prepare for their wedding | Exposition |
Hermia and Lysander are in love | Exposition |
Demetrius loves Hermia | Exposition |
No one loves Helena | Exposition |
Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius | Rising Action |
Theseus gives Hermia three choices: become a nun, die, marry Demetrius | Rising Action |
Hermia and Lysander run away | Rising Action |
Helena tells Demetrius of Hermia and Lysander’s plan | Rising Action |
Demetrius follows Hermia and Lysander into the forest | Rising Action |
Helena follows Demetrius and they argue | Rising Action |
Titania and Oberon fight over the Indian boy | Rising Action |
Oberon orders Puck to find the “love-in-idleness” flower | Rising Action |
Oberon decides to put the potion on Titania and Demetrius | Rising Action |
The mechanicals rehearse their play | Rising Action |
Puck turns Bottoms head into a donkey’s head | Rising Action |
Puck puts the potion on Lysander accidentally | Rising Action |
Lysander falls in love with Helena | Rising Action |
Oberon puts the potion on Titania | Rising Action |
Titania falls in love with donkey-headed Bottom | Rising Action |
Puck puts the potion on Demetrius | Rising Action |
Both Lysander and Demetrius love Helena | Climax |
Hermia dnd Helena argue | Climax |
Lysander and Demetrius decide to duel for Helena’s love | Climax |
Puck fixes his mistakes by putting the antidote on Lysander’s eyes so everything will be back to normal | Falling Action |
Oberon takes the Indian boy from Titania and takes the potion off of her eyes | Falling Action |
Puck turns Bottom’s head back to normal | Falling Action |
Theseus finds the teenagers and allows them to get married | Falling Action |
All three couples are married and request to see Pyramus and Thisbe | Falling Action |
The mechanicals worry about Bottom because he is missing | Falling Action |
Bottom returns and they perform the play | Falling Action |
Oberon, Titania, and their fairies bless the castle and the lovers | Resolution |
Puck addresses the audience and apologizes. He states that if the play offended anyone, that are to remember it all as a dream. | Resolution |
Plot Structure for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
August 23, 2019