The character Hermia is sleeping, but as you can see, it seems like she’s sleeping on a cloud. As she starts to dream she is elevated on the cloud to which it looks like she’s floating. She is in the forest with her lover Lysander, and they decide to go to sleep
Creative Ideas: While reading this play, I was inspired by the difference between appearance and reality. The meaning that things are not what they seem embodies the play and in the title itself. Shakespeare continuously creates the idea of imaginary in many ways: the characters falls asleep continuously in the forest, the fairies doing magic on the characters to create a state of dream, and the couples thinking they’ve been dreaming for the past few days. Also most of the scenes
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It’s important to me that the characters stay true to themselves and to also be affected by the outside sources. I want them to stay in term of characterization but be influenced by the notion of stages of dream. I say that because the body is affected by the stages of dream but I want the characters to remain in characterization. In stage two in stages of dream your heart rate slows down and your body temperature drops which marks the start of stage two in dream in Act II Scene II: when Oberon leaves the stage Lysander and Hermia enters. As Lysander stated, Hermia looks like she’s going to faint because she’s been wandering in the forest for quite some time now. When someone’s heart rate slows and their body temperature drops, they look like they’re about to faint which resembles Hermia’s appearance. Backtracking to stage one, that will start when Robin is talking to one of the fairies, which is the first scene that’s set in the forest. Stage three takes place in between Act III Scene I; Scout and Quince exit the stage and that leaves Titania and Bottom. Titania wakes up from her slumber and first thing she sees is Bottom singing and she automatically falls in love with him due to the love potion Robin has placed on her eyelids. That will mark the start of stage three because in this stage we witness unconscious activities and Titania is not