midsummer quotes Flashcards
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analysis of 3 techniques in
THESEUS:
To you your father should be as a god;
since he’s the one who created your beauty. To him, you’re like a figure he sculpted out of wax, giving him the power to leave it as it is or destroy it.
Imagery Symbolism Juxtaposition
The juxtaposition between hermia being a beautiful delicate sculpture made of wax and egeus being a god who has the power to destroy
The imagery of Hermia being made of wax, something easy to destroy, makes it known that she is weaker than other people. Her father is like a god, he created her and can just as easily destroy her.
3 techniques in
THESEUS:
To you your father should be as a god;
since he’s the one who created your beauty. To him, you’re like a figure he sculpted out of wax, giving him the power to leave it as it is or destroy it.
Imagery
Symbolism
Juxtaposition
themes in
THESEUS:
To you your father should be as a god;
since he’s the one who created your beauty. To him, you’re like a figure he sculpted out of wax, giving him the power to leave it as it is or destroy it.
Gender Relations and Power
analysis of 3 techniques in
DEMETRIUS
You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place
With the rich worth of your virginity.
Juxtaposition Symbolism Liminal Space
Demetrius says to Helena that coming into this place where there are no rules with a man who could do bad things to her juxtaposes her virginity and modesty, this leaving the city and entering the liminal space is symbolic of her innocence and purity leaving in the dark of night where anything could happen.
3 techniques in
DEMETRIUS
You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place
With the rich worth of your virginity.
Juxtaposition
Symbolism
Liminal Space
themes in
DEMETRIUS
You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of a desert place
With the rich worth of your virginity.
Gender Relations
Love, and Desire
analysis of 4 techniques in
HELENA
I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: […] spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me;
Metaphor Zoomorphism Oxymoron Juxtaposition
Using abuse to show the extent of her love for him. Any attention even negative attention, is attention she will take, the more he indulges her the more she will love him.
4 techniques in
HELENA
I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: […] spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me;
Metaphor
Zoomorphism
Oxymoron
Juxtaposition
themes in
HELENA
I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: […] spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me;
Gender Relations and Power
Love, Sexuality, and Desire
3 techniques in
HELENA
Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
Greek allusion
Antithesis
Metaphoric language
analysis of 3 techniques in
HELENA
Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
Greek allusion Antithesis Metaphoric language
Apollo chased after Daphne and the hind is chased by the tiger, not the other way around. Helena is referring to herself as the prey, she’s reversing the roles, saying that although usually she is not the one in charge she is now and she will go against the norm for what she truly desires.
themes in
HELENA
Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
Love, Sexuality, and Desire
Gender relations & Power
1 technique in
TITANIA:
Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
Motif eye
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TITANIA:
Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
Motif eye
Love is blind, the continued reference to the eye, when in love people chose what they wish to see, under the influence of the magic potion her her eyes are showing her an image of a beautiful man. who she is intensely infatuated with.
themes in
TITANIA:
Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
Transformation and Transition
Love, Sexuality, and Desire
Mischief and Magic
3 techniques in
Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass’s head
BOTTOM:
If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.
QUINCE:
O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,
masters! fly, masters! Help!
Hyperbole
Irony
Repetition
analysis of 3 techniques in
Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass’s head
BOTTOM:
If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.
QUINCE:
O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,
masters! fly, masters! Help!
Hyperbole Irony Repetition
If he were fair he would belong to thisbe but he is not, this is ironic because he doesn’t know he has been transformed. It also highlights the absurdity of the situation
Quinces repetition and use of exaggeration emphasises his shock at the situation
themes in
Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass’s head
BOTTOM:
If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.
QUINCE:
O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,
masters! fly, masters! Help!
Transformation and Transition
Mischief and Magic
what are the themes in AMSND
Transformation and Transition
Mischief and Magic
Love, Sexuality, and Desire
Gender Relations and Power
what is liminal space
the space through which the character journeys while on the way to something new
transitional place
The city of Athens is depicted as a place of civilization, law, and order, while the forest is a place of wildness, anarchy, and chaos.
A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next.
finish the quote
Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note;
[…]
[…]
[…]
Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
finish the quote
BOTTOM:
If I were fair, […]
QUINCE:
O monstrous! […]
[…]
BOTTOM:
If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.
QUINCE:
O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,
masters! fly, masters! Help!
finish the quote
HELENA
Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
[…]
[…]
[…]
[…]
HELENA
Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
finish the quote
HELENA
I am your spaniel; […]
[…] […] […]
[…]
HELENA
I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: […] spurn me, strike me,
Neglect me, lose me;
