1. When Hermia's father opposes her choice of husbands, Duke Theseus tells her not to go against her father saying "To you your father should be as a god." Is Theseus right?
2. The play ends with a triple wedding. Do you beleive that those getting married will stay married?
3. Write an informative essay focusing on what a typical wedding was like in Shakespeare's day.
4. Puck's magic spells cause several characters to fall in love with the wrong persons. Are there "magic spells" in real like that affect people this way?
5. Hippolyta, bethrothed to Theseus, is the queen of the Amazons, who play prominent roles in various stories in Greek mythology. Who were the Amazons.
6. German composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote music based on the themes in A Midsummer Night's Dream. One of these compostitions inspired by Shakespeare's play accomponies a ceremony performed thousand of times by churches throughout the world every year. What is the ceremony? What is the compostion?
QUESTIONS ON THE MIDSUMMER's NIGHT DREAM!!!?
If you're having trouble understanding the play you can go here:
http://www.nfs.sparknotes.com
It has side by side modern translations. However, please be aware that the more you read Sakespeare the easier it is to understand. People don't take kindly to being asked to do homework. We WANT you to learn to love Shakespeare.
Reply:This is obviously homework. Some of these questions are even asking for opinions! Wouldn't it be easier to just do the homework?
Reply:just do your homework or better yet....read the play and then do your homework
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