ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tom Snout, Peter Quince, Physical Body

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 100
• Professor: John Pierce

Document Summary

Multiple plots in a midsummer night"s dream: shakespeare"s complicated plays with multiple plots. The fairies (oberon, titania, puck, and the fairies: oberon had affection for hippolyta, titania affection for theseus - involved with breaking up his relationships in the past, magic, world of the supernatural. The four lovers (hermia, helena, lysander, demetrius: driving attachment, aristocracy, world of romantic love (infatuation) The rude mechanicals (bottom, peter quince, francis flute, tom snout: left work behind to celebrate the marriage, plebian life, world of work. Theseus: represents order, rationality and law, association with culture, city, and day light. Oberon: rules night - where four lovers are going, represents disorder, passion, and instinct, association with nature, forest, and night-rule (iii. ii. 5) The four lovers: hermia, helena, lysander, demetrius: four indistinguishable. The course of true love never did run smooth (i. i. Definition of romantic comedy: the characters are rewarded in the end by true love (kennedy 1139)