Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV

Act IV starts while Demetrius, Helena, Hermia, and Lysander are still sleeping and Titania comes in with Bottom. Bottom is ordering the fairies Titania assigned to be his servants around, and Titania is madly in love with him. She goes to sleep next to him, and Oberon puts a potion on her eyes that will cause her to stop loving Bottom. He wakes her up after that, and they go off together. Robin then removes the donkey's head from Bottom. 
Then, Theseus comes in with Egeus, Hippolyta, and his servants. They come across Helena, Demetrius, Hermia, and Lysander all asleep, and wake them up. Demetrius explains to Theseus that he no longer loves Hermia, he loves Helena. Theseus, after hearing all their explanations, decides to let the two couples, Demetrius and Helena and Hermia and Lysander, get married at the same time as him and Hippolyta, later that day. They all leave to go to the temple.
After this, Bottom wakes up. He thinks that he just had a crazy dream that he had a donkey's head and Titania was in love with him. Meanwhile, the rest of the craftsmen are looking for Bottom, saying how their play will be a complete failure without him. They are very sad that they can't show it. Then, Bottom comes along, and tells them to get ready to perform the play for the duke.  

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