Monday, May 14, 2007

Act 4, Scene 1

In this scene Bottom is now in no way modest or confused about Titania's love for him and he tells the fairies what to do to fulfill his needs, or more so wants he could easily just do himself. Oberon reverses Titania's love for that ass, referring to Bottom's donkey head, and I guess his behavior as well, and she talks to herself about what a strange "dream" she had about being in love with a donkey. Then we have Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus walking through the woods, and coincidently they walk right to where Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, and Lysander fell asleep. They wonder why they're all asleep by each other, so they wake them up and then we hear that Demetrius is in love with Helena still, and Lysander is again in love with Hermia. Theseus decides that they Helena and Demetrius can get married and Lysander and Hermia can get married so all is well, at least for now. Bottom wakes up and he thinks he thinks he had a dream, so he decides to write about it and read it at Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding.

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