HONR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hermia, Nick Bottom, Egeus
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Brief synopsis of the text: tension between lovers created by magic, unrequited love, and power dynamics. Stichomythia: single lines that display mutuality, intimacy; seen with lovers and female friends. Rhymed pairs (couplets): seen with hermia and lysander, hermia and. Theseus + hippolyta: he makes it seem like a military victory since he conquered the amazons and now has their queen. Consent: hippolyta chooses peace at the end and speaks with affection to theseus, Lysander and hermia agree to meet where hermia and. And in the wood where often you and i / upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie, / emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet, / there my lysander and myself shall meetfarewell sweet playfellow (midsummer, 1. 1. 214-220). Titania"s relationship with her human servant that died in childbirth. Hippolyta is now under the rule of a man, before she was her own ruler. But there is more at stake: children and future.
