16 March 2010

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

This is the first Midsummer blog response assignment. It is due before class starts on Friday, March 19.

We are starting A Midsummer Night's Dream, which is a complex, fanciful play that explores the powerful emotions from the heart.

To get us started, we tackled the twisted, complex plot. You have been given a basic summary of the storyline of the play, (titled "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"), which covers the play up to the end of Act III. For your reference, there is a version of the summary here.Your assignment now is to take this mixed-up love mess and bring it to a conclusion with a happy ending. As it stands right now, everything is messed up and needs resolution. Assume the role of a narrator and finish the story. This is your chance to control how this all turns out before we see Shakespeare's version in the play.

A couple things to remember before completing your posting: 1) your story must have a happy ending, just like a Shakespearean comedy would. 2) you must come up with a way to solve the problems of a majority of the characters. 3) your creative ending must be in the form of a story, continuing the storyline you've been given. Try to be creative and come up with an original, even outrageous, way to wrap up this storyline. As with all entries, you might consider writing on a word processing program first so you can proofread, edit, and continuously save before your final posting. Saving it in a word processing program will also cover you in case there's a problem posting.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

After Titania wakes up and falls in love with the guy opf the head of the ass. Oberon calls puck and ask what mess he maid. Puck finds the guy eithe the head of an ass back to a human head. Demetrius is happy and falls in love with him. Lysander runs to Puck and begs kim to cast a spell on father to let him and Hermia get married. So he cast a spell on the father to change his mind and let Lysander and hermia get married. So he cast a spell on the father and Lysander and hermia are happy. After a long time of thnking Demetrius he finds he loves her and wants to marry him

Rashawn

Anonymous said...

Titania wakes up and falls in love with the man with the head of an ass. She knows that her heart is telling her that this is the man of her dreams, however her subconscious tells her different. Titania follows the man with the head of an ass deep into the mysterious fairyland. She confronts Oberon about her inner conflict and he seems just as confused as she is. Oberon summons Puck to explain what has happened. Puck claims he knows nothing of this, but Oberon, being the King of the Fairies, is a rather intimidating person. He can sense that Puck is lying and tells him this. Puck confesses and says he will indeed reverse the spell, if he isn’t given any consequences. He asks if the spell on Demetrius has worked. They run to check and realize that Puck has done wrong yet again. It seems that Puck has made it so Demetrius and Lysander both love Helena, while they are supposed to love Hermia. Demetrius truly loves Hermia and Helena truly loves Lysander. Helena goes to Puck and begs of him to reverse the spell and make it so Demetrius loves her and Lysander loves Hermia because it would all work out perfectly. However, Puck being the jokester that he is, asks for a compensation. He asks for Helena to find him a true love before he will do any favors for anybody. So, Helena searches for someone who she thinks would be compatible with Puck. Two days later, she returns with a fairy princess who is eager to marry. Puck likes the girl and just as he promised, casts a spell to make Demetrius love Helena and for Lysander to love Hermia. Four months later, Demetrius and Helena marry and Lysander and Hermia marry one month following.
Emily

Anonymous said...

After Titania wakes up and falls in love with the man with the head of an ass, Puck decides to come back to cast the spell again and reverses everything. He thinks this game is funny. SO now the man with the head of an ass loves Titania and she doesn’t love him. Demetrius and Lysander no longer love Helena, and she now loves both of them. That leaves poor Hermia. She has no one to love her, but her feelings for Lysander still stand.
-Victoria

Anonymous said...

After Titania wakes up and falls in love with the man with the head of an ass, Puck decides to come back to cast the spell again and reverses everything. He thinks this game is funny. SO now the man with the head of an ass loves Titania and she doesn’t love him. Demetrius and Lysander no longer love Helena, and she now loves both of them. That leaves poor Hermia. She has no one to love her, but her feelings for Lysander still stand.
-Victoria

Anonymous said...

Because the fairies were so incredibly overwhelmed with what they had done, they decided to take a different route than they had been taking before. (obviously casting multiple spells on humans wasn’t working out.) Before completely refraining from interfering, however, Titania casts one last spell on the young Indian boy. She gives him the power to solve all problems with love. Before Oberon can find the boy to ship him off to become a warrior, Titania sets the boy free into the woods, and tells him that he must help these poor mortals with their love issues. First the boy finds Duke Theseus and Hippolyta. Immediately he senses her hesitance to love the Duke. The boy asks Hippolyta who she would rather love. She says no one, and that she simply wants to return to the Amazons. He makes a compromise with her. If she promises to keep in touch with the Duke, she may return home. Satisfied, she agrees and runs to tell Duke Theseus the good news. He is satisfied as well because he is still able to maintain his delusional relationship, and the love of his life is happy.
Next, the boy finds Hermia. He knows that she and Lysander were once truly in love, and that is how it should have remained. He finds Lysander and has the two look into each other’s eyes. The boy tells Lysander that he was cast under a spell, and that he was destined to like Hermia instead of Helena. As Lysander looks into Hermia’s eyes, he regains his reasonability and falls back in love with Hermia. The two tell Hermia’s father, and he is okay with it because the young boy had prearranged a marriage of the father and Demetrius’s Mother, who was widowed when Demetrius was born. Hermia’s father is content because he has now found love and he is still able to call Lysander his son in law/ step son.
Next, the young boy finds Helena and Demetrius. He leaves them in love because if they hadn’t fallen in love, they would have been single due to the fact that no one truly loved them. The young boy then hosts an intervention for the man in love with the head of an ass because he finds it downright absurd to be in love with an object like that. Instead, he forges a relationship between Titania and the ass- man. The man gladly falls out of love with the head of the ass for the fairy princess, and she is so appalled at her husband for casting a spell on her that she reciprocates the ass- man’s love.
The Indian boy now leaves Oberon to be, because he was cruel to his wife. The boy figured that Oberon needed to focus more on the affairs of humans and fairies, rather than seek revenge on his wife. Oberon is left to his one love, power. And everyone lives happily ever after...
Jena

Anonymous said...

When Titania wakes up she realizes that she now loves the man with the head of an ass. Puck realized that in an effort to make things right, they had complicated things so much more than they had originally intended to. Puck relizes that he must do whatever he can to make sure that he makes it so that everyone falls in love with who they truly intended to be with in the first place. He tries to cast the spell again but he realizes that it doesn't work at all. After this Puck thinks that his efforts are futile and that everything will not go back to the way that they were. As Puck is sitting there, depressed and solemn, he recieves a visit from the prophet of the wood. The prophet tells him that the only way that things can return to the way that they were is that he must not interfere with magic and that he must let things run their cousre and true love will prevail in the end> so Puck patiently sits back and watches as things unfold. Now that Demtrius and Lysander both like Helena, they both begin to court her. This begins to be a probelsm and they both decide to duel it out for Helena. They begin to swordfight and Puck cringes wth anxiety and feels that he should do something, but he let things run their course. Lysander jumped on demetrius, knocking his sword out of his hand and just as he is about to stab Demetrius through the heart, he stops and he realizes that he no longer likes Helena, but hermia instead. he leaves Demetrius alive and goes and marries Hermias because Egius decides that any man willing to fight to the death for his daughter is worthy of her hand in marriage. Demetrius and Helena were left to love eachother in the wood for the resot of their lives. Queen Hippolyta ran back to the Amazon to be happy and Lord Theseus ends up marrying Titania and the man with the head of ann ass goes to the Amazon with Hippolyta. Everyone had the happy lives they had always dreamed of and lived happily ever after.

Jake

Anonymous said...

Demetrius and Lysander (leaving Hermia alone) are both on their way to profess their love to Helena. When Helena confronts both of them, she is overjoyed that Demetrius loves her. Helena and Demetrius decide to marry the day of next the new moon. Seeing this, Lysander goes to Egeus to persuade him to marry Demetrius with Hermia by saying he has given up Hermia for Egeus’ respects. This way he plans to win Helena. The next day, Egeus summons all the children with the duke. After hearing all this love madness, duke decides to leave the choosing of love mate to the children themselves, but the resolutions have to be made by 3 days. Everyone is dismissed. Hermia tries to be near Lysander, but Lysander keeps ignoring her. Giving up after a while, she goes off to drown in a river the next day. Oberon orders Puck to break the cast that had made him fall in love with Helena from Lysander. Puck undoes the spell and Lysander is back in love with Hermia. The third day, the guy with the head of an ass is roaming in the woods, followed by Titania while Hippolyta is mourning in the same woods. Puck is also there wondering what mischief he could do. When he sees the guy with head of an ass, he thought it would be funny to make him fall in love with Titania, and marry the two, but accidentally, the spell of love, which makes people fall for the first person they see, is casted on Hippolyta. Returning home, Hippolyta sees the duke first and falls in love with the Duke. Titania begs Puck to make the guy with the head of an ass fall in love with her, and the spell works, also the guy has now his head replaced with head of a handsome guy. On the wedding day, everyone seems happy. The duke is happy with the Amazon queen’s consent with the marriage; Lysander and Hermia are also finally together with no obstacle because Egius had given his daughter permission to marry her with Lysander since Demetrius is taken. All is well.

Anonymous said...

^Anjita.

Anonymous said...

The fairy princess Titania wakes up and falls in love with the man with the head of an ass... But soon Oberon becomes jealous  and annoyed at the head of an ass as Titianoa becomes obsessed with it and doesn't pay attention to him anymore.  Thrown over by this jealosuy, Oberon orders Puck to return everything back to normal by undoing everyone's spell. Puck obeys Oberon's order but he also accidentally casts a spell on Helena, Duke Theseus, and Hippolyta. Now Helena and the duke falls in love with each other while Hippolyta loves Demetrius. Demetrius and Lysander realize that they are no match for the Duke and decides to give up Helena on their own will, which breaks the spell.  Now Lysander realizes his true love for Hermia and hurries to her father for permission to marry her. When Demetrius and Lysander started to love Helena, Hermia's  father became  worried that his daughter won't have anyone to marry so Hermia's father quickly accepts his proposal.  Demetrius, too late to win Hermia's love, becomes lost without anyone to love.  Hippolyta takes care of Demetrius which makes him fall in love with her.  When Titania's spell breaks she learns that her husband ordered Robin Goodfellow to cast a spell on her and she gets angry at Oberson.  However, Oberson realizes Titania is more important to him than the fate of the Indian Boy so he wins back her love by letting her raise the boy as she sees fit.  On the day of Duke Theseus's wedding, the Duke marries Hermia instead of Hippolyta! And everyone lives happily ever after!!! Ashley  

Anonymous said...

Well I think that Lysander and demetries are both going to find eachother with the same girl at night time. But they find eachother at night time because of the faries they only come out at night time they are magical and could change into anything that want. So after they have a spell casted on themselves. Everyone is annoyed with the head of an ass!! He wants to be everyone and also fall on love with everyone. But the head of an ass falls in love with hernia but she doesn't love him. While Demetrius and Lysander are still alseep from the spell obseron falls in love with hernia and they want to get married. But Helena is a liver and is in love with Demetrius. So but because they are alseep she has no way to get in touch with her. So after both Demetrius don't find love but they are still looking. And obseron and hernia find love together.

Anonymous said...

Elyssa the last one