Pure Literature A Midsummer Night's Dream GCE O Levels Quotes/Context Studies

Category Quote/Context Background Context: Fairy in a conversation with Puck Act: 2 Scene: 1

Fairies Abilities I do wander everywhere, swifter than the moon's sphere (Fairy in a conversation with Puck) Sometime a horse i'll be, sometime a hound

Puck, after turning 3 Bottom's head into that of an ass, following the terrified Mechanicals 2

I'll put a girdle round about the Puck to Oberon, getting Earth in forty minutes the Flower Juice I go, I go, look at me go faster than an arrow from a Tartar's bow

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Puck to Oberon, bringing 3 Helena to Oberon

Puck is able to imitate the voices Tricks Demetrius and 3 of other characters Lysander into walking in a certain direction through thick fog Dreams and Reality When they next wake, all this derision shall seem a dream and fruitless vision. And back to Athenes shall the lovers wend Athenes represents reality, law and order, while the Woods represents a dream, chaos, mischief and irrationality 3

I never may believe these antique fables nor these fairy toys.

Theseus to Hippolyta 4 Theseus, being the personification of reason and order, is not able to accept the idea of what the lovers have told Hippolyta Puck to Oberon, suggesting that they should watch Lysander chase after Helena aimlessly Oberon to Puck 3

Mischief

Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

This is thy negligence. Still thou mistakest, or else committ'st thy knaveries willfully And so far am I glad it so did

Puck to Oberon Enjoys 3

sort, as this their jangling I esteem a sport Family Relations Aren't you supposed to obey me, your lord and husband?

his mistake of annointing the wrong person's eyes with love juice Oberon to Titania 2 1 1

Fairie's Do you amend it then. It lies in Oberon to Titania, telling 2 Influence/Dutie you her to fix the problems s with the weather, caused by the disputing fairies The summer still doth tend upon my state Fairie's Imperfection Hostility Titania to Bottom Saying the seasons depends on her feelings 3

You won't leave this grove until Oberon seeking revenge i've paid you back for this insult on Titania) I love thee not, therefore pursue Demetrius to Helena me not For I am sick when I do look on Demetrius to Helena thee Where is Demetrius? Oh how fit a word, is that vile name to perish on my sword! Who will not change a raven for a dove? Out, tawny Tartar, out! Out, loathed medicine! O hated potion, hence! What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead? Get you gone, you dwarf, you minimus of hindering knotgrass made, you bead, you acorn! Lysander to Helena

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Lysander to Helena, describing Hermia) Lysander to Hermia, under influence of Love Juice Lysander to Demtrius Lysander to Hermia telling her to get lost, teasing her about her height Helena to Demetrius Lysander to Hermia telling her that he hopes life ends before his loyalty to Hermia dies

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Love's Irrationality Irony

We should be wooed and were not made to woo And then end life when I end loyalty

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She durst not lie near this lack- Puck, insulting Lysander 2 love, this kill courtesy Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind Ironic because flower juice is applied to the eyes 2

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Here is the scroll of every Quince to Mechanicals 2 man's name which is thought fit, They are definitely NOT

through all Athens, to play in our good enough) -Dramatic interlude before the duke and the Irony dutches, on his wedding day at night The will of man is by his reason swayed Lysander to Helena 2 describing his love for her - Ironic because we know that this is not true love dramatic irony 2 2

Reason becomes the marshal to Lysander to Helena my will describing why he loves her is because of reason, which we know is not true dramatic irony Bottom raising doubts that there are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisbe that will never please

Sophisticated and highly 3 educated audience, but Bottom thinks that they will not be able to comprehend that everything is an act. He doubts their intelligence, but in fact it is him who is lacking in smarts

The most lamantable comedy, First we wondered how 2 and most cruel death of Pyramus would a tragedy be a and Thisbe comedy, but we slowly see that the way the mechanicals act out the play is indeed the comedic relief of the play within the play, although they did not intend for it to be that way You're acting like an ass, don't you think? Bottom to Snout The use of the word Ass is quite appropriate, as Bottom has indeed, an Ass's head on Bottom to himself - The use of the word Ass is quite appropriate, as Bottom has indeed, an Ass's head on 3

I see their knavery; this is to make an ass of me

What angel wakes me from my Titania to herself 3 flowery bed Woken up by the Ass Headed Bottom's singing. Calls him an angel, although he is certainly

not Reason and love keep little company together nowadays Bottom to Titania He does not realize it, but that is the whole plot of the play 3 1

You're as wise as you are beautiful

Titania to Bottom 3 Ironic because in actual fact, Bottom is indeed as wise as his looks, which is quite appropriate as he is not wise, and he looks horrible Helena to Hermia, 3 thinking that Hermia is part of a plot to make fun of her, talks about how they were like sisters and that Hermia should not be so cruel to her, but Helena does not realize that she was cruel to Hermia by telling Demetrius about her secret plans that Hermia told her in strict confidence.

Is all the counsel that we two have shared... is it all forgot?

And I am such a tender ass, if Bottom to Mustardseed - 4 my hair do but tickle me, I must The use of the word scratch. Ass is quite appropriate, as Bottom has indeed, an Ass's head on Man is but an ass if he go about Bottom saying that a man 4 to expound this draem would be foolish to try to interprete his dream Lovers and madmen have such Theseus to Hippolyta seething brains Theseus is unable to think like a lover, yet he is getting married to Hippolyta. What does that make his marraige? No wonder, my lord. One lion may when many asses do 4

Demetrius to Theseus 4 Demetrius answering Theseus's question if the lion would be able to talk Hermia supposedly 2 talking to Lysander Foreshadows her describing Demetrius as a

Foreshadowing Methought a serpent eat my heart away and you sat smiling at his cruel pray

serpent when she thought that Demetrius has killed Lysander in his sleep Humour (Ridiculous) Write me a prologue Bottom to Mechanicals 3 Prologue spoils the entire play 1

Say he comes to disfigure, or to Quince to Mechanicals- 3 present, the person of We know that there is no Moonshine man in the moon, and that moonshine is not a person, but the Mechanicals want to personify moonshine Some man or other must present Wall Bottom to Mechanicals 3 The play within a play is getting more ridiculous. They want someoen to act out the role of a wall Titania calling an Ass Headed Bottom, beautiful Demetrius to Helena Funny because just a moment ago Demetrius was insulting her, now he's all over her 3

You're as wise as you are beautiful O Helena, goddess, numph, perfect, divine!

You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he (Bottom)

Quince to Mechanicals 4 Clearly, Bottom is not the best at acting, but his fellow Mechanicals think otherwise 4

If we offend, it is with our good Bottom to Theseus; will introducing the play Thanks, courteous Wall Breaking The Fourth Wall

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Pyramus talking to 'Wall' 4

No, in truth, sir, he should not Bottom speaks out of 4 character to Theseus, answering his question if the wall was able to talk.