Thursday, May 10, 2007

Act 3, Scene 2

A lot goes on in this scene. Robin and Oberon are first talking to each other about Titania and how she fell in love with the donkey headed guy, Bottom, and how Robin put the nectar on the wrong man with Athenian clothes, which they figure out when Demetrius and Hermia enter. Hermia is upset with Demetrius because she thinks that he killed or took away Lysander, when really he was just following Helena because that's who he now loves. When Demetrius falls asleep, Robin and Oberon try to fix things by putting the nectar onto Demetrius' eyes. Then we have Helena and Lysander talking, Helena is still upset because she thinks Lysander is mocking her and Lysander is just trying to prove his love to her. Demetrius wakes up, he falls in love with Helena, then we have Demetrius and Lysander fighting over Helena. After a bit of that, Hermia wakes up, so we have the whole gang together! Hermia asks why Lysander why he left, and he just tells her that he doesn't love her. Helena starts to think that Hermia is in on this too, so she gets upset at her also. Then the best, but worst thing happens, and Helena and Hermia just go off on each other. After a lot of arguing, Oberon sees how much more trouble he caused, so he tells Robin to get another type of nectar, which will reverse what the first nectar did so th9ings will be normal again, and to go run around with Lysander chasing him, pretending to be Demetrius, and have Demetrius chasing him, pretending to be Lysander. He gets them to be so tired that the fall asleep and he puts the nectar on Lysander's eyes so he can be in love with Hermia again and Demetrius will still be in love with Helena, which is what Oberon wanted in the first place.

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