A Midsummer Nights Dream...to the end!

In Act III we are still in the woods to start with where the characters meet to reherse. One item they discuss is having to lion to be too scary to the women. This makes me laugh because how can a guy be too scary because, "lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. For there is not a more fearful wildfowl than your lion living. And we ought to look to ’t."(III.i.11-14) The final solution that "another prologue must tell he is not a lion."(III.i.15) Their acting must be amazing if they can have the crowd thinking there is a real lion up there. As the characters continue acting and working out the kinks, Puck transforms Bottom’s head into that of a donkey. It ends up scaring the men away and Bottom is left. What Bottom didnt know is that he would be the next victim of the "love potion." Titania awakes and first thing her juice dropped eyes see is Bottom and his donkey head. "What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?"(III.i.60) After Titania expresses her love towards Bottom, he goes to reply that she has no reason to love her. Besides they just met and had nothing going on before. Bottom says, "And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."(III.i.70-71), which is saying that reason and love have very little to do with one another. I disagree with this point because in order to love someone there has to be more than just a first look. I dont believe in love at first sight and i think having a reason to love someone are important because those reasons are what makes them special to you. But of coarse we are not talking about true love here...its love through magic, through potion. With the love triangle already being affected by the potion, Shakespeare creates more and more chaos through the young lovers by making a romance across groups. Overall act three just sets up and develops the plot of what is to come from the lovers. Act IV seems to play the role of all the solutions to every problem. It becomes the answer, and the happy ending to the love unbalance. Act V gets underway and the men and women take their seats. The prologue then gets spoken andQuince's strange pauses make many question, so that he says, “Our true intent is. All for your delight / We are not here. That you should here repent you,” (V.i.114–115). After the play, Bottom plays out and pretends to kill himself. When given the oportunity between a final epilouge or dance, Theseus chooses the dance. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, sort of gives you an idea of what is to be expected in the book dreams and mystical characters. But Shakespeare does an excellent job relating darkness and love together but keeping it a comedy. Have you ever had something so great or even so bad happen that you thought it couldnt be real it was just a dream? Well thats what happens to the lovers after their magical night in the forest ends. They lovers begin to grow suspicious that their experience in the woods was nothing but a dream. In the famous final speech of the play, "If we shadows have offended,/ Think but this, and all is mended—/ That you have but slumbered here/ While these visions did appear./ And this weak and idle theme,/ No more yielding but a dream,/ Gentles, do not reprehend./ If you pardon, we will mend./And, as I am an honest Puck,/ If we have unearnèd luck/ Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue,/ We will make amends ere long./ Else the Puck a liar call./ So good night unto you all./ Give me your hands if we be friends,/ And Robin shall restore amends."(V.i.383-398) Puck says that if audience members didnt enjoy the play, they were dreaming throughout it. Overall i enjoyed this book a lot more than other Shakespeare stories, i just didnt like how there was a play inside of this play because at times it got confusing for me.