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The answer is most likely A) Because the last line breaks the rhyming pattern, the poem gives extra emphasis to its main topic
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The most significant source forA Midsummer Night’s Dream is Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses, an epic poem that weaves together many Greek and Roman myths. Shakespeare alludes to many of the stories from Metamorphoses, but the story with the most obvious importance for his play is that of Pyramus and Thisbe. Originally appearing in Book IV of Ovid’s poem, this story tells of two lovers who long to marry against their parents’ wishes and who come to a tragic end in the attempt to do so. Shakespeare adapts this story for Midsummer’s play-within-a-play, performed in the final act by a group of craftsmen. The theatrical ineptitude of this troupe undermines the seriousness of their subject matter. What results is an ironically comedic performance that delights rather than saddens the audience of Athenian nobles. Perhaps the most ironic aspect of the craftsmen’s retelling is just how un-Ovidian their play is, and how this un-Ovidian spirit contrasts with the very Ovidian nature of the rest of Midsummer. Whereas the main storyline of Midsummer involves an engaging series of transformations and supernatural beings, the craftsmen’s production offers a dull, bare-bones retelling.
Significantly, the craftsmen’s production of “Pyramus and Thisbe” also parallels the main plot of Shakespeare’s play. Just as Theseus bans Hermia from marrying Lysander, so too do the fathers of Pyramus and Thisbe ban their union. Furthermore, just as Lysander and Hermia flee Athens and its harsh laws, so too do Pyramus and Thisbe flee Babylon to safeguard their love. One obvious difference between Midsummer and the story of Pyramus and Thisbe is that the former is a comedy and the latter is a tragedy. Nevertheless, Shakespeare manages to play comedy and tragedy against each other in such a way that draws the two stories into a mirrored relationship. Thus, just as the craftsmen set out to perform a tragedy but end up in the midst of a comedy, so too does the main story of Midsummer begin with the threat of tragedy (i.e., unhappy marriage or death) but ends with all of the lovers alive and in their preferred pairings.
21. How does Victor look to others, feel about himself, and behave toward his family when he arrives home in Geneva this time?Chapter 18
22. How does Victor feel when his father offers the idea that perhaps an immediate marriage to Elizabeth might cure Victor's remaining melancholy? Why does Victor feel the way he does about it?
23. Why does Victor want to travel to England now for the next few months instead of staying in Geneva? Who did Victor’s father arrange should travel with Victor? Who else is probably going to “accompany” him?
24. When Victor interrupts his own story and says the line near the end of Chapter 18 that begins with, “Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute…” what outcome for Henry do you think he is referring to (that has not yet happened)?Chapter 19
25. Describe how Henry and Victor’s attitudes about their six months in London are different. What is each of them hoping to gain from this journey?
26. Describe the place where Victor goes when he leaves Henry behind at their Scottish friend’s house and travels to the farthest northern part of Scotland he can reach. What is it like there, and why do you think he chose this location for his work?Chapter 20
27. What thoughts make Victor change his mind just before he was about to complete the female? Who is watching through the window as he destroys the female?
28. Describe Victor’s explanation when the creature enters the hut to confront him about destroying the female. What promise does the creature make as the last thing he says to Victor before he rushes out of Victor’s hut?
29. What does Victor believe is the real meaning of the creature’s promise?
30. What is in the basket that Victor hauls out to sea in the middle of the night?
31. What country does Victor land in after he falls asleep in his boat and drifts for so long? Why do the villagers there speak so rudely and suspiciously to him?
32. What is Victor’s physical reaction when he hears one of the villagers giving testimony about what he had found while coming home from a fishing trip? What did the witnesses and Mr. Kirwin, the magistrate, think as a result of Victor’s reaction?
33. What has Mr. Kirwin found out about Victor while he lay unconscious in a fever for two months? Who has Mr. Kirwin summoned to come from Geneva?
34. What is the outcome of Victor’s criminal trial? What evidence is given to prove this?
35. What is the “one duty” on Victor’s mind as he and his father sail away from Ireland on their way home to Geneva?Chapter 22
36. When Victor becomes too ill to travel and has to stop in Paris for a few weeks of rest on the way home to Geneva, he often refers to himself as the “murderer” of Justine, William, and Henry. Why does his father not believe him and direct him not to say such things?
37. What does Elizabeth want to know in her letter to Victor? What does she say is the only way their marriage can truly make her happy instead of “eternally miserable”? What is Victor’s answer to her inquiry? What does he promise he will do the day after their wedding?
38. After Victor and his father arrive home and a date is set for the wedding, what precautions does Victor take as he prepares for it? What does he pack? Where does he and Elizabeth go for their honeymoon?
39. In the boat leaving Geneva after the wedding, what sort of mood does Elizabeth try to present for Victor’s sake? What sort of mood does he nonetheless notice she seems to feel?
Chapter 23
40. Why does Victor send Elizabeth to bed earlier than himself in the town of Evian on their wedding night?
A. the attitude of its characters
