AMidsummer

Night’sDream

Story Overview Writing Prompt

Once Upon a Time…

Theseus, the

Duke of

Athens was

preparing to

marry…

Hippolyta,

the queen

of the

Amazons

The ceremony would be a four day long festival and all of

Athens would attend…

Meet Egeus…

Egeus is a nobleman, and the father to …

Hermia.

This is Lysander.

Lysander is the one that Hermia loves.

This is Demetrius.

Demetrius is in love with Hermia.

Egeus wishes for Hermia to marry Demetrius but Hermia is in love with Lysander and refuses to obey her father.

Egeus wishes full penalty of the law to fall on Hermia’s

head if she disobeys her father.

Theseus tells Hermia that she has until the date of the wedding to make her decission but, if she disobeys her

father she could face execution!

Hermia and Lysander decided to escape Athens

and run to the forest and get

married

Meanwhile…Meet Helena.

Helena is in love with Demetrius.

Helena tells Demetrius that Hermia and Lysander are going to the forest.

Demetrius follows his intended lover, Hermia, into the woods.

Helena follows after Demetrius in order to win his love.

In this same forest lives another group of characters.

This is Oberon.

Oberon is the King of Fairies.

This is Titania.

Titania is the Queen of Fairies.

They have recently returned from India to bless the marriage of

Theseus and Hippolyta.

Our other characters in the forest are…

The Homespuns.

The Homespuns are a group of performers rehearsing a play they hope to perform at the wedding.

This is Bottom, he is a member of the Homespuns.

This is Puck.

Puck is Oberon’s merry servant.

Puck was sent to find the magical flower .

The magic red flower’s juice can be placed on the eyelids of a sleeping person

and cause them to fall in love with the first thing they see when they wake up.

Oberon intends for Puck to use the flower on Titania in an act of revenge.

Oberon order’s Puck to place the juice on the eyelids of Demetrius because he was being cruel towards Helena.

Puck see’s Lysander, thinking that he is Demetrius. He places the flowers juice on Lysander’s eyes.

When Lysander wakes up, the first person he see’s is Helena. Lysander is now in love with Helena and abandons Hermia.

In an attempt to undo his mistake, Puck places the flower’s juice on the eyelids of Demetrius. Demetrius and Lysander are now both in love with Helena

Hermia is so furious that she wants to fight Helena.

Puck misleads and confuses the young lovers until they are all seperated in the forest.

When Titania awakens after being poisoned by the love potion, the first creature she see’s is Bottom – who has been transformed into an ass by Puck.

Eventually Oberon falls asleep.

The young lovers also fall asleep.

Puck places the flower potion on the eyelids of Oberon and Lysander and when everyone awakens they are reunited with their rightful lovers.

Bottom awakens from being poisoned and thinks that it was all a dream.

After awakening, Bottom is inspired to create a play based on love and a dream. His play is then chosen for the wedding of

Theseus and Hippolyta.

After the play and the wedding, the young lovers go to bed. All is restored back to normal in Athens and

in the forest.

The End

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Your Writing Assignment

Since you have already read A Midsummer Night’s Dream and you have now seen a brief outline to jog your memory you should have a pretty good idea

about each character. Your job is to pick one character we have learned about who you relate to. In some

way or another these characters have attributes that you like or dislike. After you discuss who it was you

chose, please discuss why. What was it that intrigued you? Can you think of a time when you acted similar to the way they do in the story? This should be a 2

page paper, double spaced.

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