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Notes:- All responses should be in your own words. Please type your responses to each one directly under “Your discussion board” . All answers need to be positive, as a discussion 1. Discuss any aspect--a character, a scene, a literary technique--you find in the first two acts of A Midsummer Night's Dream using one of the critical approaches described in the section "Emphasis on the Text." In other words, assume the stance of, say, a New Critic as you discuss the play. Answer: I have chosen to discuss the first page of scene one, act one from a new critical perspective. The title of the play is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and dreaming is brought up within the first fifteen lines of the play. Theseus expresses impatience with the slow passing of time before the day he and Hippolyta will be married by saying “This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires,”(line 4) yet Hippolyta expresses the antithesis. When she speaks of the moon it is to say “like a silver bow New bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities.” (Lines 9-11). This is a much different representation of events from Hippolyta; where Theseus describes the moon as withholding the object of his desire (their marriage), Hippolyta describes the moon as the bearer of a bow that might pierce her with their “solemnities” (line 11). The word solemnities is formal, suggesting that to Hippolyta the marriage is more contractual or business oriented than from a place of love and desire. This argument is confirmed with Theseus’ comment immediately following this, saying that “the pert and nimble spirit of mirth”(line 13) must be awakened and “turn melancholy forth to funerals” (line 14). This seems to be a scolding of Hippolyta’s mourning attitude toward the idea of their impending marriage, which further reinforces the juxtaposition of the two’s perspectives regarding their marriage. Going back to the mention of dreaming from Hippolyta, she expresses how time quickly passes in sleep “Four nights will quickly dream away the time” (line 8). The repetition of the word four could be seen as symbolic as it is used 3 times in the first eight lines, perhaps as a way to paint a picture for the upcoming events in the play. The style of speech in the play is poetic and rhythmic with noticeable meter, though the lack of rhyme makes it more conversational and natural as a dialogue. Your discussion board: (150 – 200 words) 2. Discuss any aspect--a character, a scene, a literary technique--you find in the first two acts of A Midsummer Night's Dream using one of the critical approaches described in the section "Emphasis on the Source." In other words, assume the stance of, say, a Freudian critic as you discuss the play. Answer: For my second prompt I would like to discuss the first scene of the play from an archetypal perspective, specifically on the role of man and wife in marriage. The expositional scene with Theseus and Hippolyta brings to light the inconsistent feelings between the two. Theseus’ view that their marriage couldn’t come any sooner and Hippolyta’s attitude of morbidity toward their approaching “solemnities” (line 11) show that their marriage is not based on a mutual love and passion. Theseus’ command that Hippolyta “Turn melancholy forth to funerals” (line 14) could even be interpreted as a scolding. In lines sixteen through nineteen it is made clear that their engagement was made based on unfortunate circumstances for Hippolyta; “I wooed thee with my sword, and won thy love doing the injuries”. The archetypes represented by their relationship could be the tyrant and the innocent. Theseus lords over Hippolyta whose hand he won in battle, and Hippolyta has no choice but to endure her fate. This conversation is followed by Egeus lamenting his daughter’s “stubborn harshness” (line 38) in regard to her wish to marry the man she loves. Hermia would represent the lover in this case, as she is quite literally being kept from her love by the threat of death or “to abjure forever the society of men” (lines 65-66). Here again we see a young woman being commanded to marry for the tyrant’s wants and wishes and being scolded for expressing desire outside of her charge. Hermia and Lysander, however, represent the lovers, and the fact that they are being kept apart due to her father’s preferences despite Lysander’s status and wealth creates dramatic irony. I believe that Shakespeare may be using archetypes to break the myth or the dream of marriage. The Jungian perspective analyses literature from a cyclical perspective; “the phases of human experience from birth to death” (1366). Using this outlook on scene one of Act one, the reader is seeing a snapshot of the life of a young girl barely past her adolescence, about to be forced to marry a man who she does not love. The myth of finding love and living happily ever after does not exist for Hippolyta, and this is tragic. Hermia, on the other hand, has found her love, but is being prevented from pursuing a life with him. The message that the reader is receiving from these two tragic situations is that the myth of finding true love is false, and even when it is found, it is rare that it can be kept. Your discussion board: (150 – 200 words)
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