A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Act-4 & 5)

 

ACT – IV

 

1.     What does Titania tell Oberon on waking up after he has applied the antidote on her eyelids?

Ans: After her dancing and revelry, Titania fell asleep by the stream bank. Oberon crept up on her and squeezed the flower’s juice onto her eyelids, chanting a spell, so that Titania would fall in love with the first creature she saw upon waking. Oberon seeing Titania with her infatuation for the donkey, now decided to reverse the charm of the love.-juice. Oberon said that he saw Titania earlier in the woods and taunted her about her love for the ass-headed Bottom. He asked her for the Indian child, promising to undo the spell if she would yield him, to which she consented. Satisfied, Oberon bent over the sleeping Titania and spoke the charm to undo the love potion. She told Oberon that she had visions and had been dreaming about loving a donkey. Titania woke and was amazed to find that she was sleeping with the donkey-like Bottom. She also felt disgusted for falling in love with such a hateful face. Thus, Oberon and Titania are reconciled.

2.     What does Theseus tell Egeus after they meet the lovers in the woods?

 

Ans: Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus are walking through the woods when Theseus suddenly spies the sleeping lovers. Egeus recognizes them but wonders how they ended up together because Demetrius and Lysander are enemies. Theseus tells the lovers that their meeting was auspicious and even Egeus was no longer opposed to his daughter, Hermia’s marriage with Lysander. Theseus tells Egeus that he must go against the wishes and to allow these couples to be united through marriage at the same time when he will marry Hippolyta.

 

ACT-V

1.     What do Theseus and Hippolyta think of the stories narrated by the lovers?

..Ans: At his palace, Theseus speaks with Hippolyta about the story that the Athenian youths have told them concerning the magical romantic mix-ups of the previous night. Theseus says that he does not believe the story, adding that darkness and love have a way of exciting the imagination. Hippolyta notes, however, that if their story is not true, then it is quite strange that all of the lovers managed to narrate the events in exactly the same way.

2.     What does Puck ask the audience at the end of the play?

 Ans: In Puck's soliloquy, he asks for forgiveness from the audience if any of them felt offended or hurt by the play by referring to the fictional events and characters in The Midsummer Night's Dream as shadows. He also compares the play itself to nothing more than a dream and it was all imaginary and harmless.