ShakespeareAnnotations

Act I Act II Act III Scene 1 Act III Scene 2 Act IV
 * What are the conflicts?
 * What does this Act say about love? About free will to love who one wants to love? About controlling another person's feelings?
 * Look for all the tricks Puck has pulled -- the Fairy he meets in the woods mentions several and then he tells of several more.
 * Why are Titania and Oberon in the woods outside Athens?
 * What are Titania and Oberon fighting about? What does Oberon say Titania has to do to stop the fighting?
 * Because of the discord and fighting in the fairy world, what terrible things are happening in the mortal world?
 * Where do the Lovers end up by the end of this Act?
 * Look for comedy with the Mechanicals -- using the wrong words, mispronouncing things, saying contradictory things.
 * Look for what happens to Bottom, how it happens, and why it happens.
 * Look for jokes with Bottom's name, the word "donkey," and the word "ass."
 * By line 344, who is in love with whom?
 * Helena thinks Demetrius and Lysander are teasing her by pretending to be in love with her. She also thinks Hermia is in on the joke. Look for where Helena says this and what the others say in response.
 * What happens to Titania? To the Indian boy?
 * What happens to Demetrius?
 * How do the Lovers explain what has happened to them or what they have experienced?