Friday, August 10, 2012

A Midsummer Night's Dream

I was asked to do a narration for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
   

  Lysander and Hermia were a couple in the great city of Athens. They loved one another, but a law in Athens said that if a girl married someone other than the suitor her father instructed her to marry, she could be put to death. Hermia’s father wanted her to marry Demetrius, someone that her friend Helena loved. The governor of Athens said that if she didn't obey her father in four days, she would be killed. Therefore, Lysander proposed that they run away into the woods. Hermia told her friend Helena about Lysander’s plan. Helena told Demetrius so that he would come too. She knew that he felt the right to have Hermia even if he had to fight.
     In this wood lived Oberon, king of the sprites, and his queen Titania lived there along with him. They were so hard to see that only the most observant mortals could see them. Even though they were married, they could only quarrel, because Oberon wanted Titania's Indian boy to follow him. The king wanted the boy to be one of his fairy knights, and the queen wanted the boy to be her follower. Because they were rivals they were never together.
     To stop the arguing, Oberon sent for Puck, the spirit of mischief. He was told to go look for the Love-in-idleness flower. When its juice was added on a sleeping person's eyes, he or she would love what he or she saw next.
     Oberon told Puck to put the juice on Lysander and Demetrius while he dabbed it on his wife. Lysander woke up and saw Helena, but when Demetrius woke up, he saw her too. Then Oberon thought that they would fight over her, so he instructed Puck to bring down a heavy fog at night so that they wouldn't be able to see one another.
     Titania woke and she saw a clown. She had her followers attend him, and she sent her helpers to find food for him too. When Oberon passed by, he found Titania lavishing kisses on the clown.
     When Lysander fell asleep, Oberon told Puck to take a different herb and squeeze its juice on Lysander's eyes. This juice broke the spell of the purple flower. Then Lysander loved Hermia again. 
     Before restoring Titania back to normal, Oberon asked her for the boy who she willingly gave him. Finally, nought was wrong and everything was happy again.

2 comments:

  1. Great job, Soren, and I'm looking forward to reading more writing!

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  2. Great work Soren! I am very excited to read more of your writing. I'm so proud of you.

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