intro to shake exam 2

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main characters in midsummer nights dream

• bottom

• hermia

• helena

• titiana

• oberon

• robin/puck

main characters in hamlet

• hamlet

• claudius

• ophelia

• gertrude (hamlet’s mom)

• the ghost devil thing

characters in the sonnets

• speaker

• dark lady

• fair friend

• time

• nature

fair friend

• uses “you”

• speaker is speaking directly to this person

• more positive

dark lady

• uses “she/her”

• get dark fast

self loathing in midsummer nights dream

• helena hates herself

• people are betraying each other

hamlet at the end of play (speech perhaps??)

• quotes the bible

• god has plan for us all

• going into the last fight knowing there is an end already written

• kinda ready to die

hamlet and ophelia

• prioritizes his father/revenge over her

• sometimes we hurt others because of what we prioritize

blank verse

• plays

• 10 syllables

• actors choose where stressors go

• usually 5 stressors

sonnets

• iambic pentameter

• 14 lines

• mainly about love and love adjacent things

• high brow

• 14th century italian version of lyric

lyric

• short

• emotional

• autobiographical

• vague structure

• ancient greece

iambic pentameter

• 10 syllabuls

• 5 stressors (2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th)

• i am a pirate with a wooden leg ye’ll know me by the clatter of me peg

why midsummer nights dream is performed so much

• short and funny

• we know how it is going to end

• supernatural

• human lover plot gets resolved in act 3 so you know everything will wrap up nicely in act 5

sonnet 18

• most famous

• fair friend

• “shall i compare thee to a summers day”

• you are more beautiful then a summers there because you are always there and summer is not

• as long as people are living on earth/reading poetry you will be alive cause my poetry is so good 

sonnet 20

• the gay one

• fair friend

• “ a woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted”

• your face is as beautiful as any women’s except it is natural

• you control all genders

• men look at you and when women look at you their souls are amazed

• homoerotic

sonnet 104

• “To me, fair friend, you never can be old”

• fair friend

• his beauty never fades no matter how much time has passed

• seeing your life getting shorter

sonnet 109

• “O! never say that I was false of heart,”

• fair friend

• there has been emotional distance

• the speaker has been absent but he is back

• you are my rose and it is everything to me

• speakers love remains strong

sonnet 126

• “O thou my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r”

• fair friend

• you are nature’s artistic creation

• despite nature's protection against time, decay is inevitable

• last fair friend sonnet

sonnet 127

• “In the old age, black was not counted fair,”

• dark lady

• black is the new look

• talking about her not to her

• rejects conventional fair beauty standards

sonnet 129

• “Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame”

• dark lady

• die (cum) —> soul leaves body

• lust and how shameful it is

• lust is destructive

sonnet 130

• “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;”

• dark lady

• honesty poem

• she is lowkey ugly but beautiful in her own way ?

sonnet 144

• “Two loves I have of comfort and despair,”

• dark lady

• in love with two people

• scared dark lady is stealing away fair friend

sonnet 147

• “My love is as a fever, longing still”

• dark lady

• in love with sex

• bad for you but still want it

• syphilis core

• his "reason" (acting as a doctor) has abandoned him because his unhealthy appetite ignored all medical advice, leaving him in a state of madness

self loathing in sonnets

dark lady sonnets

hermia characteristics

• short

• dark hair

• confidant

• only rebellious in the way where she wants to marry who she wants to marry

• lysdaner is her bf

• demetrius wants her and wants to marry her

helena characteristics

• tall

• blonde

• hates herself

• demetrius left her for hermia but she is still in love with him

• snitches on hermia

mnemonic device

• I AMbic pentameter

bottom characteristics

• subplot character

• giving blue collar worker

• silly guy

• turns into donkey

hamlet characteristics

• renaissance prince

• philosopher

• scholar

• wants to be man of reason

what is so radical about sonnets 1-126

they were written by a man to a man

is to be or not to be a monologue or soliloquy??

it is taught as a soliloquy but there are usually other characters on stage with him so it could be considered him pretending to be crazy