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Egeus in MSND, impact of the magical potion, Verse vs prose, Differences…
Egeus in MSND
Elizabethan attitudes to women
Egeus' relationship to Hermia
"full of vexation come i"
vexation = anger
complaint
"stubborn harshness"
not normal attitude of a father
Made to feel sorry for Hermia
Lysander "bewitched" her
the only way that a father in Shakespeare thinks why a daughter would disobey him is if she was under a spell by the man
accuse the men (Lysander) of stealing their child,
but worse they accused them of putting them under a spell.
magic = witches = evil
people may think that bewitching someone may mean they are with the devil
Elizabethans see anything supernatural as evil
In other Shakespearian plays
"thou hast enchanted her"
Macbeth
Witches terrify Macbeth
even though the monarch at his time was a woman, women were considered inferior
Elizabethan women were expected to obey men, particularly their father or husband
Fathers control who their daughters married, passing control of the daughters over to their husband upon marriage
?Modern day norm of the father walking his daughter down the isle at weddings?
passing control to the husband over the daughter
more common in high status families
less likely for a father to give off his daughter to a poorer family
less money = less land / power / less worth while
more money = more land / power
land is big way of getting wealth
Writing about him using context
presented as a patriarch as he says that Hermia's obedience is due to him as she is his daughter
impact of the magical potion
Lysander sees Helena and falls in love with her
Helena runs away from Lysander
"speak of all loves, I swoon [faint] almost with fear"
Hermia wakes up by herself
comes across them and find out she was abandoned on purpose
Verse vs prose
Prose
normal speaking
Mechanicals
Act 1 scene 2
When someone is speaking a large amount it is in sentences rather than rhymes
When they do attempt to rhyme
"raging rocks ..."
"shivering shocks ..."
"break the locks ..."
very simple
amateurish with only 1 or 2 syllables
Shakespeare is using 10 syllables
low status
foolish talk
not important
emphasizes their unsophisticated nature
High status in Verse
Verse
poetic language with rhythm
blank verse-no rhyme
Most noble characters
serious poetic moments
Rhymed verse
tends to happen in the forest
Noble characters
take notice of where verse rhymes and where it doesn't
Light, more comedic
Rhythm
Iambic pentameter
5 steps of 2 (10 syllables)
Unstressed + stressed
da dum
Serious
Trochaic Tetrameter
stressed + unstressed
most nursery rhymes
e.g
Mary had a little lamb
dum da
4 lots of 2
Lighter
Differences between Oberon and Puck
Oberon is malicious toward Titania