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05.08 Free Choice Blog

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A Midsummer Night's Dream Act IV Summary:           The scene opens up with Titania and Bottom who still has a Donkey's head and he proceeds with his bossy and jerkish personality into a conversation with his appointed fairies. Still madly in love, Titania has not the slightest clue that she is under the spell of the flower juice. With Bottom conversing with Titania, it makes for quite the humor as he refers to himself as an ass, when discussing the topic of him going to the barber, without realizing that he is wearing a Donkey's head. Another interesting thing that occurred was that coincidentally or not, the diet that Bottom  wishes for  resembles one of a donkey, and due to the fact that he is unaware of the fact that he is wearing a Donkey's head, it makes it humorous. This hunger for this certain diet (grass, dry oats, hay) may be because he is a dwarf but it really resembles one of a Donkey. Also, due to the fact that his p...

04.08 Free Choice Blog

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A Midsummer Night's Dream Act III Summary :           The scene opens up with the workers who are practicing some of their acts for the play, and they seem to be to struggling. One of my predictions that I made during this part of the act is that the play was going to resemble the plot/conflicts that occur in the love triangle and/or in King Oberon and Titania's wedding. In this part of the act Robin, I would say was the protagonist. After being instructed by Kind Oberon to take the flower and drop the juice on an Athenian boy to make him fall in love with the Athenian girl whom he never stops rejecting, he has caused a lot of mischievous on the way. As much fun as he was having, ruining the workers practicing their scenes for the play and dropping the flower juice on the Athenian boy, his actions created a mess of itself. In which King Oberon had to jump in and devise a plan to get things back to normal.      ...