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Note: use your won words to discuss these two answers as discussion board, the respond need to be positive and simple you agree with the answer and discuss the answer (150 words each one) Please write the number and your discussion under 1. Discuss any aspect--a character, a scene, a literary technique--you find in the final three acts of A Midsummer Night's Dream using one of the critical approaches described in the sections "Emphasis on the Receiver" or "Historical and Ideological Criticism." In other words, assume the stance of, say, a Marxist Critic as you discuss the play. Answer: In the last three Acts of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we see both Helena and Hermia dealing with the continued patriarchal aspects as we did before. The women are both characterized as weak and jealous. While eventually Hermia gets her desires in regards to her love, it comes only because Demetrius is spelled to love Helena. Had Oberon not used the flower juice on Demetrius eyes, Hermia would still be forced to choose between being a nun, doing her fathers bidding and death. While feminist criticism is not my favorite, I can see where the frustration comes from in regards to literature. Women of this time period where basically owned by their fathers and as Egeus pointed out in Act I Scene I, by law she was his to do with as he pleased. The change is this story that somewhat makes it better is that Theseus over rides Egeus and allows Hermia to marry Lysander. He does so knowing that Demetrius now “loves” Helena. I also see the stereotypical woman drama occur in Act III Scene II. In this scene the women turn on each other and fight. Helena feeling that Hermia is in on the boys “game” chastises her “To join with men in scorning your poor friend? It is not friendly, ‘tis not maidenly:” (3.2.16/17). Hermia feeling that Helena is lashing out at her for no reason notes “I am amazed at your passionate words. I scorn you not:” (3.2.220/221). Once Oberon spells the men again, the women seem to go on as if nothing happened, begging the question, are they just ignoring it all or do they not remember? 2) Why does Shakespeare end with the play-within-the-play and Puck’s closing address to the audience? Is he commenting on his own play? on drama in general? Answer: The ending of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was not really clear to me. I think Shakespeare uses play-within-the-play to emphasize the irony of the story that proceeded it. The events that described in A Midsummer Night’s Dream were quite sad, there was jealousy, anger, envy, and heartbreak. Nevertheless, the way Puck intervened and change the course of actions using magical love plant makes it a great comedy. Also, the final play bears some striking similarities to A Midsummer Night’s Dream . The story of Pyramus and Thisbe is originally sad, however the way it was acted by craftsmen turned it into a comedy. Furthermore, at the end of the play Pluck mentions that if the play offended anyone, one should remember that it's simply a dream. Earlier in the play similar remark was made by Theseus and Hippolyta, when they didn't believe the story Athenian youth told them and said that it was merely a dream. Although, I wasn't quite sure what was the message Shakespeare tried to bring to the audience with the play-within-the-play, I think that there are many ways such literally device can be interpreted. In my opinion, play-within-the-play in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is used to show that even sad moments in life can have some irony in it.
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1. I agree with you that patriarchy is still an issue that Helena and Hermia have to deal within
in the last three Acts of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Apparently, that society undermines
women, and Helena and Hermia use every opportunity at their disposal to change the
situation. I am simply p...


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