Midsummers+Night+Dream+Qs+pt+1


 * “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” **

they will each spend their days differently she means that she is still questioning her marriage and if the next four day will go by too fast and theseus will take advantage of hippolyta.
 * Act I, Scene 1 **
 * 1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus? **
 * 2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do? **

he expects him to fall in love with the one of them so that he doesn't mary and egeus complains to theseus


 * 3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia? **

her proper role is to get married and have kids but she didn't listen to her father egeus so he may dispose of her in any way


 * 4. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things? **


 * 5. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? Why do they tell Helena? **

they plan to leave the city and get married somewhere else and never return to visit her father or anybody else and they leave the next day


 * 6. Even though Helena loves Demetrius and is Hermia’s best friend, why does she decide to tell Demetrius of Hermia and Lysander’s plans? **

so that she will tell her father and let her know of her plans of leaving with Demetrius and egesus can track them down and dispose them both or put them in jail for eternity


 * 7. Identify Hermia’s basic dilemma. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus and her father? What other choice does Lysander suggest? **

that she could marry lysandr and not be killed but she decides to marry but she is lying she loves demetrius and so nobody will ever find out were she is comes weddindy day


 * Act I, Scene 2 **
 * 8. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts? **

so he gets all the fame glory and riches

for the reader to get to learn the characters more and for a laugh
 * 9. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene? **


 * 10. Where are the actors to meet the following night? Who else is meeting there at the same time? **
 * they are meeting in the forest so that no one will steal their ideas but hyppolytia and hermia are also meeting in the forest before they go **
 * 11. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How would you describe Bottom’s acting ability? What is Bottom’s own opinion of his acting ability? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a18; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">he thinks that he the best actor and that he knows the story from the back of his heart and he can play all the parts the other disagree they think he is terrible he just a big ego **