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Writer’s Notebook: Act I, Scene 1

Writer’s Notebook: Act I, Scene 1. Identify Hermia’s basic dillema . What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus, Egeus , and Lysander? (You can simply jot down this list and fill in the blanks) Egeus : Obey him and marry Demetrius __________________________ Theseus:

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Writer’s Notebook: Act I, Scene 1

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  1. Writer’s Notebook: Act I, Scene 1 Identify Hermia’s basic dillema. What are the choices outlined for her by Theseus, Egeus, and Lysander? (You can simply jot down this list and fill in the blanks) Egeus: • Obey him and marry Demetrius • __________________________ Theseus: • __________________________ • __________________________ • __________________________ Lysander: • __________________________ If you were Hermia, what would you choose? Explain your choice and your reasoning in your writer’s notebook.

  2. Pyramus and Thisbe • Pyramus and Thisbe are a pair of ill-fated lovers whose story forms part of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. • They are lovers in the city of Babylon who occupy connected houses/walls, forbidden by their parents to be wed, because of their parents' rivalry. • Through a crack in one of the walls, they whisper their love for each other and arrange to meet near Ninus’s tomb under a mulberry tree and state their feelings for each other. • Thisbe arrives first, but when she sees a lioness with a mouth bloody from a recent kill, she runs away, leaving behind her veils.

  3. Pyramus and Thisbe • When Pyramus arrives he is horrified at the sight of Thisbe's veil, assuming that a lion had killed her. • Pyramus kills himself, falling on his sword in proper Roman fashion. • Thisbe returns, eager to tell Pyramus what had happened to her, but she finds Pyramus' dead body under the mulberry tree. • After a brief period of mourning, Thisbe stabs herself with the same sword.

  4. Prologue of Romeo and Juliet Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene), From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love And the continuance of their parents’rage, Which, but their childrensend, naught could remove, Is now the two hours’trafficof our stage; The which, if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

  5. Writer’s Notebook Pyramus and Thisbe vs. Romeo and Juliet

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