The Fairies and Magic

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Fairies and Magic

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Analyse how Puck’s speech from Act 2 Scene 2 presents his relationship with Oberon.

PUCK OBERON TITANIA OBERON TITANIA PUCK OBERON I jest to Oberon and make him smile [...]

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Analyse how Shakespeare presents Titania and Oberon’s relationship in this extract from Act 2 Scene 1.

Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so. Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania. What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence; I have forsworn his bed and company.

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Analyse how Shakespeare presents Oberon’s trick on Titania in this extract from Act 3 Scene 1.

Tarry, rash wanton; am I not thy Lord? What angel wakes me from my owery bed? [...]

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Analyse how Puck and Oberon’s speech from Act 3 Scene 2 shows their enjoyment of the trick on Titania.

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful. When in that moment, so it came to pass, Titania wak’d, and straightway lov’d an ass. This falls out better than I could devise.

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Analyse how Puck engages with the audience at the end of the play in this extract from Act 5.

PUCK you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear

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Analyse how this extract from Act 2 Scene 1 presents the effects of Oberon and Titania’s conflict. Write your answer on a separate piece of paper.

TITANIA Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge have suck’d up from the sea Contagious fogs; which, falling in the land, Hath every pelting river made so proud That they have overborne their continents. [...] The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, [4]

Compare how these extracts from Act 2 Scene 1 and Act 4 Scene 1 present the relationship between Oberon and Titania. Write your answer on a separate piece of paper.

OBERON Give me that boy, and I will go with thee. TITANIA Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away! We shall chide downright if I stay longer. [Exeunt Titania and her Train] OBERON Well, go thy way; thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury.

OBERON Then my queen, in silence sad, Trip we after night’s shade: We the globe can compass soon, Swifter than the wandering moon. TITANIA Come my lord, and in our fl ight Tell me how it came this night That I sleeping here was found With these mortals on the ground [6]