AMSND+Act+2

__**"A Midsummer Night's Dream"**__ **Ana and Brianna**

__** Act 2 Scene 1 **__ ** 10. What does the reader find out about the current relationship between Oberon, King of the Fairies, and Titania, Queen of the Fairies, from Puck and the first fairy? ** They are arguing a lot over the changeling boy that Titania wants to take care of. ** 11. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta; why have they come to Athens? ** Titania accuses Oberon of having an affair with Hippolyta ('the bouncing Amazon') and Oberon counters that by saying that she had had an affair with Theseus. Titania say that he has come to Athens 'from the farthest steppe of India', probably for Hippolyta. ** 12. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans? ** Their arguing causes floods and starvation among humans; Titania says 'The ox hath therefor stretched his yoke in vain', meaning even though the ox ploughed the fields, no food was produced. Their fighting has also altered the seasons, causing frost and ice in the Summer. ** 13. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon? ** She was friends with the mother of the baby, and promised her before she died that she would take care of the boy. Also it is her way of asserting her power over him. ** 14. What does Oberon send Puck to find? ** The flowers that was covered with the juice of love from cupids arrow. ** 15. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania? ** He plans to anoint her eyelids with the flower's juice while she is sleeping, to make her fall in love with the first animate thing she sees; he thinks it will be very amusing to watch. ** 16. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse? ** She reverses everything he says, and is so in love with him she doesn't take it offensively. ** 17. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse? ** She says that she will never be alone, because he is the world, and she will always be same with him. ** 18. In what way is Helena’s behaviour inappropriate for Athenian women? ** It is inappropriate for an Athenian woman to be alone in the woods at night with a man who doesn't like her. ** 19. What does Oberon tell Puck to do about Demetrius and Helena? ** Oberon tells Puck to put the juice from the flowers on the eyelids of a man dressed in Athenian clothes, and make sure that Helena is near by so he will fall in love with her.

__** Act II, Scene 2 **__ ** 20. Why does Oberon want Titania to wake and fall in love with some vile thing? ** So he can somehow shame or manipulate Titania into giving up the little changeling boy, and for revenge. ** 21. Why does Hermia insist Lysander sleep a little ways from her? ** She insists for human modesty, she doesn't want to sleep with him until they're married. ** 22. Why does Puck anoint Lysander’s eyes? ** He anoints Lysander's eyes because he assumes that Lysander is Demetrius, he is the first man he found wearing Athenian clothing. ** 23. How does Helena react to Lysander’s sudden love for her when he awakens? ** Helena believes that Lysander is mocking her, because he never loved her before. She seems very upset that Lysander is acting loving toward her, but Demetrius always refused to do so. ** 24. How is Hermia’s dream a reflection of reality? ** She dreams that a serpent ate her heart away, and Lysander just sat there. In reality, Puck or Oberon would be the serpent, playing with the hearts of Lysander (making him love Helena) therefor eating out her heart.

=media type="file" key="AMSND ACT 2 SCENE 2.mp3" width="240" height="20"= =__ Creating the Magical Mood and Atmosphere of Act 2 __=

In pairs, use Garage Band to produce the introduction of Act 2 Scene 2.. Use sound effects to create the magical and mysterious mood of the opening. Record the text up to line 34. Create the music to go with the lyrics of the Fairies Song. Upload to your wiki.