Transcript Lysander

A Diagram of the four pairs of lovers
in
“ A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Lysander
Demetrius
&
&
Hermia
Helena
Theseus
Hippolyta
“The duck of
Athens”
“The queen
of Amazon”
He is in love with
Hippolyta and he
shows the male
power in the
play
He Won
Her
She is engaged
to Theseus , bus
she had to
married him
Oberon
Titania
“The King
of Fairies”
“The Queen
of Fairies”
Married
He send Puck to
obtain the lovepotion flower
for Titania
Titania’s brief,
potion-induced
love for Nick
Bottom, whose
head has
transformed into
a donkey by Puck
YOUNG LOVERS
Lysander & Hermia
Demetrius & Helena
Lysander
Hermia
“A young man
of Athens”
“Egeus’s daughte a
-His relationship with
Hermia invokes the
theme of love’s
difficulty.
-when Lysander and
Hermia run away into
the forest, He become
the victim of
misapplied magic and
wakes up in love with
Helena.
young woman of
Athens”
IN LOVE
There
Marriage
Rejected
by Egeus
-Self-conscious about
her short stature,
Hermia suspects that
Helena has wooed the
men with her height.
- By morning, Puck has
sorted matters out with
the love potion, and
Lysander’s love for
Hermia is restored.
Demetrius
Helena
“A young man
of Athens”
“A young woman of
Athens”
Demetrius’s obstinate pursuit
of Hermia throws love out of
balance among the quartet of
Athenian youths and
precludes a symmetrical twocouple arrangement.
-she thinks that
Demetrius and
Lysander are mocking
her when the fairies’
mischief causes them
to fall in love with he
At the end Demetrius fall
in love with Helena at
that all because the
flower drop
in LOVE
with
Demetrius
Exercises
1. Which of the young Athenians is
first affected by the love potion?
(A) Lysander
(B) Helena
(C) Hermia
(D) Demetrius
2. Which man does Hermia’s father
want her to marry?
(A) Lysander
(B) Demetrius
(C) Theseus
(D) Philostrate
3. What part of her appearance does
Hermia believe Helena has exploited
to win Lysander’s love?
(A) Her hair
(B) Her face
(C) Her height
(D) Her legs
4. Whom does Demetrius love at the
end of the play?
(A) Titania
(B) Hippolyta
(C) Helena
(D) Hermia
5. With whom does Titania fall in love?
(A) Snug
(B) Puck
(C) Bottom
(D) Mustardseed
6. Who first thinks of using the love
potion on Titania?
(A) Puck
(B) Oberon
(C) Bottom
(D) Cobweb
Presented BY:
Alanoud AlHgbani
Sara Saad
Nouf alTayar