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Quotation Signifcance Practice for Acts I & II in A Midsummer Nights Dream

On your next quiz, you will be asked to identify quotations and explain their signifcance. Now is the time to
practice! The following quotations are from Acts I and II.
Process for this worksheet: Work through each question frst without looking in the play. When you are
fnished the whole worksheet, check your answers by fnding them in the play.
This will give you an idea of how well you would do on a quiz.
Identify the speaker (1 mark), a context (what is going on at the time) (1 mark) for each quotation, and
explain what it reveals about character (2 marks).
1. To you your father should be as a god;
One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
To whom you are but as a form in wax.
Speaker: Theseus
Context: Theseus is defending Egeus position that Hermia should follow his wishes and
marry Demetrius.
Character: Theseus believes that fathers should control their daughters and that daughters
should be obedient. The simile comparing fathers to gods reinforces this belief, and so does
the metaphor comparing Hermia to wax, which should be formed by her father.
2. The course of true love never did run smooth.
3. My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongues sweet melody.
4. Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will do
Any mans heart good to hear me
5. Ill put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.
6. I am your spaniel; and, . . .
The more you beat me, I will fawn on you
7. If thou follow me, do not believe
But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.
8. My heart unto yours is knit
So that but one heart we can make of it;
Two bosoms interchained with an oath;
So then two bosoms and a single troth.

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