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1、A Midsummer Nights Dream,-The drama made by shakespeare in 1596,.Background,.Relationships,.Summary,.Characteristics,.Analysis,.Extracts,Contents,There was a law in the city of Athens which gave to its citizens the power of compelling their daughters to marry whomsoever they pleased;for upon on a da
2、ughters refusing to marry the man her father had chosen to be her husband,the father was empowered by this law to cause her put to death.,Background,Hermia,Lysander,Egeus(father),Demetrius,Helena,Wanted Hermia marry,Good friend,Manworld（人间）,Relationships,Oberon(King),Titania(Queen),Puck(fairy),ass(蠢
3、驴),Have a contradiction with each other,Belong to,Special relationship,Fairy（仙境）,After finishing the relationship about the characters,you may these questions.,What is the relationship between the mans word and the fairyland?How did shakespeare combine the all the character from the different places
4、?What happened between the Queen and the ass?And what is the“special relationship”mean?,Now,let me tell you some details,Summary,Egeus complained to duke that his daughter Hermia,whom he had commanded to marry Demetrius,refused to obey him,because she loved Lysander.Egeus wanted to use the law to fo
5、rce his daughter.So Hermia and Lysander planed to escape from Athens to another place.And they decided to meet in the wood.Hermia told their plan to her good friend Helena.As the result of love for Demetrius,Helena told him what Hermia had told her.Demetrius wanted to stop Hermia in the wood,and Hel
6、ena followed him.,Part 1,The wood in which Lysander and Hermia planed to meet was the fairyland.Oberon was the king and Titania was the queen.At the same time,they were quarrelling about a little changeling boy.Oberon wanted to have the boy as his henchman,but Titania didnt give him to Oberon.In ord
7、er to give her a lesson,he asked his Puck to get love-in-idleness(三色堇).If you putted the juice from the love-in-idleness on sleeping mans eyelids,the man would fell in love with the first creature he or she saw.,Part 2,Oberon saw Helena and Demetrius in the wood by accident,realizing Helena loved De
8、metrius so much,Oberon felt sorry for Helena and he decided to use love juice to make Demetrius love Helena.He told Puck what he wanted to do,but Puck putted love juice on Lysanders eyelids because he thought Lysander was Demetrius.The first person Lysander saw was Helena,so he loved Helena.At the s
9、ame time,love juice putted on Demetriuss eyelids and that made him love Helena because she was the first person he saw.All the things made Hermia surprised and angry even having a fight with Helena.Oberon also putted love juice to queens eyelids,and the first thing her saw was an ass.She loved the a
10、ss at once.,Part 3,After realizing that they all did wrong,the king and Puck decided to stop all things.Puck used magic to let the four humans sleep,and put love juice on their eyelids.When they opened their eyes,Lysander saw Hermia and Demetrius saw Helena.They went back to the Athens.Bacause Demet
11、rius loved Helena at that time,Hermia s father didnt force her to marry Demetrius.Besides,the four people hold weddings on the same day.Oberon removed the magic of the love juice on Titania and made peace with each other.At that moment,they knew that thy all did wrong,and they lived together,had a h
12、appy life.It is the happy ending in Midsummer Nights Dream.,Part 4,Hermia-beautiful,brave,kind,honesty.When her father force her to marry Demetrius,she voted against and escaped with Lysander.She was very honest to Lysander,and she did not hide her true heart to anybody including Helena.,Helena-craz
13、y,eyeless for love,a little selfish.She loved Demetrius so deeply that she lost herself and followed him everywhere,which was crazy and eyeless.When Demetrius and Lysander loved her,she enjoyed it and left her friend Hermia alone.We can see she is a little selfish.,Characteristics,Lysander-brave.He
14、wanted to leave the city for being together with Hermia,we could see his love for her is profound and true.,Demetrius-play boy,selfish,not a gentleman.He only wanted to have Hermia and her beauty.When Helena followed him in the wood,he even said rude words to her.,Egeus-selfish,rude,cruel.He forced
15、Hermia even wanted the law to kill her.He was not a good father.,Analysis,Clue-There are two clue(线索)in the story:the four peoples love adventure and the argument between the king and the queen.The love juice combine the two clue.,Setting-The wood in which the fairies lived is the important surround
16、ings to the plays romantic atmosphere.It makes this story more mysterious.Besides,it is the place where all things happened.,.,Words-Shakespeare used humorous words to show the character.He also liked to put some ancient songs in his comedies.We can see metaphor(暗喻),simile(明喻)and other figure of spe
17、ech.Besides,the sentences written by him are very beautiful.,.,Title-In the story,the writer said that the all the things happened in the midsummer night.In England,there are many fairy tales about midsummer night.So the midsummer night is full of mysterious things.I think the author putted this tit
18、le in order to show this story is full of magic and it is a play about fairy tales.,Some features about Shakespeares comedy,Usually have funny plot,romantic love story,sometimes have the conflicts with relatives.But in the end,comedies always have happy ending.,Comparing with the tragedies written b
19、y Shakespeare,his comedies are more interesting and more easy.They dont have many complicated relationship or some deep normal human feelings(人性).,Extract,Things base and vile,holding no quantity,Love can transpose to form and dignity.Love looks not with the eyes,but with the mind,And therefore is w
20、ingd Cupid painted blind.,许多卑贱的东西本身并不好爱情把它变的堂皇的不得了爱情不是用眼睛看，而是用心所以插翅的丘比特被画成瞎子,If the true lovers have been ever crossdIt stands as an edict in destiny:Then let us teach our trial patience,Because it is a customary cross,As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,Wishes and tears,poor fancys foll
21、owers.,如果真正的情人永远遭受折磨，那也是命中注定的事情了。我们该鼓起耐心来受苦难，因为那是情场中不能免的常有的折磨，恰似愁思、梦想、叹息、愿望与眼泪，都是随着爱情而来的东西。,If there a sympathy in choice,War,death,or sickness did lay siege to it,Making it momentany as a sound,Swift as a shadow,short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied night,That,in a spleen,unfolds
22、 both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say,“Behold!”The jaw of darkness do devour it up:So quick bright things come to confusion.,如果姻缘美满，战争、死亡、疾病便要来围攻，使得一段姻缘如声音一般的短暂如影子一般的快，如任何梦一般的短，又如黑夜中电闪一般的急，突然间，展露整个天地，在人们还来不及说“看啊！”的时候黑暗的巨口早已把它吞没了:璀璨的东西是这样快的趋于毁灭。,Discussion:,What is Shakespeares view of love and marriage as suggested in the play?How is the moon imagery related to the theme of this play?Why is the play called a“midsummer nights dream”?Does the play suggest fatalism in that fairies control human acts?,Thank you!,
