ENGL 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Egeus, Hermia, Tom Snout
5 Jul 2019
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Festival: months of may & june - period of festivity, heat: associated with a madness in the evening (magic and fairies, ghosts can predict things, dangerous time, not necessarily reality - land of fable, unconscious, mythological. Characters: theseus: from myth- ship, kills minotaur, outsmarts labyrinth (string) She thinks it"ll go by quickly - possibility they"re actually in love: references to the moon. Enter egeus (angry old man archetype) - rude to daughter. If she doesn"t marry demetrius, she will be killed. From actual athenian law: choose between the nunnery or death if you don"t marry who your father wants you to: hippolyta listens to all of this. Friday, july 5, 2019: themes, unrequited love, magic/supernatural, night mystery, poetry, urban vs. forest. Free will, marriage and power dynamics, states of consciousness, laws, jealousy, social obligations: human vs. nonhuman, act 1 s 1.
