Scene and Characters for A Midsummer's Night Dream

I think that the two characters I would like to the play the most would either be Puck or Bottom. Those two provide most of the comedy of all the characters. Bottom has a very funny voice and has many ideas of how to solve problems. Puck can change into anything he wants in order to play tricks on people. I personally would not mind having this trait so I think it would be very interesting to play someone who does this. I think that both Puck and Bottom are the funniest of all the characters and therefore would be the most fun to play.
Although these characters would be fun to play they would also be very tricky to play because of the way they change their voices or bodies. I think that bottom would be played as someone who is very loud and always speaks his mind. He is always the first person to answer a question and even though he does it in a funny way, his answer is usually very helpful. One of the reasons he gets so many laughs is because of the way he exaggerates the voices. When ever he talks as a girl he talks very, very high. And whenever he talks as another guy he talks very, very low. This overemphasis makes the play a lot funnier and Bottom's character a lot more fun to play. Puck is very mischivous. He always likes to play jokes no matter how much harm it may cause or even when he does it on accident he still laughs about it. His job is to make Oberon laugh, however, he seems to try to make himself laugh more than Oberon. Puck can also change shapes which is a great way to play a pramk on someone. Puck enjoys the thing he can do better than anyone else which makes it even more enjoyable for him. Overall, Puck may be a bit cruel, but he merely thinks that everyone will find the same things that he finds funny, funny as well. This causes him to be a bit more cruel and michivous than he needs to be.
For Bottom I think the scene that I would like to do the most would be in Act 1, Scene 2; lines 68-107. This is where Quince is handing out parts and Bottom wants to play each one. This is a great scene that shows Bottom's over-the-topness and how good he is at playing all different parts and how his voice can change so dramatically. Another scene that Would be fun to play as Bottom is in Act 3, Scene 1; lines 121-164. In this part, Puck has just turned Bottom's Face into an ass and then Titinia wakes up and falls in love with Bottom whose face is an ass. This part is one of the funniest in the book so far and shows how quick Bottom can change his mind. At first he doesn't believe that Titinia could actually like him but then very soon he changes his mind and starts to love this new attention.
The scene I'd like to play for Puck is the beginning of Act 3, Scene 2; lines 6-37. This part is when Puck reports to Oberon that Titinia has fallen in love with an ass. This part shows all the sides of Puck. How he is so happy to acomplish hi job. How funny he thinks it is that she is in love with an ass. And while he reports you can tell how happy he is by his voice that gets very high and very excited. This part shows how mischivous Puck is and how much he enjoys messing with people.

Flat world reflection

1. The thing I liked best about this project was the podcasts of everyones story. The reason I liked this was because it allowed us to get to know the people who's story we listened to even better. One of the main goals of this project was not only to write a paper but also to interact from different kids around the world. I learned a lot about them by reading their papers but I learned the most about them by listening to other kid's stories. Listening to stories allowed me to do two things: First, it allowed me get to know the person better by hearing their voice. It's like an aim conversation verses a phone coversation. If you meet someone for the first time over the phone, you feel like you know the person a lot better than if you just type to them on aim. Second, it allows us to realize what parts of their story are most important. Because we have different cultures, they would emphasize different things than we would in their stories. By listening to the story we can tell what is important by how they read it. This also makes the story more enjoyable. The podcasts were very fun and helpful.

2. The thing I liked the least about this projects was that we had to correct a different thing each week on the other persons paper. One week it was word choice and the next week it was sentence fluency. I didn't like this because I don't think it allowed people to be as helpful as possible. There might have been some people that realized that one part of a story needed a lot of work but because they were assigned to correct something else, didn't fix it. This is bad because the person won't get the best feedback possible which will make their story not as good as it could possibly be. It is also bad because if we are correcting something that the paper already does very good, there's really nothing we could do. We should be able to correct whatever we felt like needed the most work.

3. One surprising thing about some other students was how blatantly some plagiarized. Some students almost exactly copied famous fairy tails such as Goldie Locks and the Three Bears. They used the same characters and changed only the smallest details. They only changed it after three or four people said how much alike it was to these fairy tails. And even after they tried to fix it, you could still tell the concept was the same even though they changed the characters and a few other things. I was very surprised at how lax other schools plagiarism policies were.

4. Honestly, I don't think that this project didn't helped my writing that much because it was reviewed in a way that we will probably not need in the future. It took us six weeks to correct our paper which is a lot longer than we will normally have. I also feel that the feedback I recieved was not ground-breaking. The stuff they told me to correct was stuff I already knew I had to correct but I had to wait until the certain week to do it. And sometimes the feedback that I received was just lazy. For example, the week we were correcting word choice, someone told me to use the thesaurus so that I could have bigger words. The only thing it helped me realize was that I should pay more attention to having all six categories in my writing the next time I write a fictional paper. Overall, I don't think that this project helped me become a better writer.

5. The most challenging part of this project for me was making this story interesting. Because I chose a story that had a very good point but was not very interesting, it was hard to add fictional parts to the story to make it more interesting while at the same time making sure that I still get my point across. The main point of my story was that my dad was honest and returned money he had been overchanged when he was very young the next day he found even more money lying on the street. It was hard to make interesting because I had to think of a believable but exciting event that made my dad decide to return the money and realize that what he was doing was stealing. It was hard to be creative but believable at the same time.

6. The most important advice I can give to future students is to make sure that you have pretty much your whole story done before it starts getting corrected. If you don't, not only will you start to fall behind but you're story will not end up as good in the end. When people see a partially done story they don't correct very well since it's not done. Also, for the rest of the story you hadn't finished, that part will miss some very important corrections which will cause that part to not be as good as possible. Even if you're story is not great, write out the whole thing before you start recieving corrections. That will make sure you won't fall behind and you're story will be even better because you recieve better corrections.

7. Overall, I think that with a few tweaks in terms of how we correct the papers, this project can be very good. It allows us to get to know other cultures and other kids at the same time as we do school work. Because of the interaction it could become a very fun way to get you're story corrected instead of just having the teacher correct it and just hand it back to you. It would also be very helpful because we would learn how to correct other people's papers better which would allow us to correct our own papers better in the future. Right now this is a fun project and with a few changes with the way we correct it could be a fun, and very helpful writing project.

Helena Characterization For Act 2, Scene 2

In act 2, scene 2, of A Midsummer Night's dream, Helena continues to be the same one dimensional character as before. She does not realize that Demetrius will never love her and she still continues to put herself down in order to give her a reason as to why Demetrius chose Hermia over her.
In this scene demetrius directly tells Helena to leave him alone and to stop chasing him but yet she does not. This again proves how obsessed she is and how she will do anything just to be in his presence. The only reason she would allow herself to be verbally abused by Demetrius so much is because she feels she needs to spend as much time as possible with him. This also shows how little self confidence she has because these remarks that he makes to her would hurt any other person, however, she is not fazed by these comments. She brushes them off as if they were the norm, which they are.
In this scene we also get direct evidence of how she views herself. She calls herself as ugly as a bear because beasts that meet her turn around and run away. We already know that this is not true. She is just as beautiful as Hermia, but because her self confidence is so low, she views herself as ugly as a bear. As I've said before, she says this not only because she has low self confidence, but also because it gives her a reason to think that Demetrius chose Hermia for a superficial reason. We see this when she says that because of her looks, it is impossible to rival Hermia in the chase for Demetrius. This again proves that Helena can not accept the fact that Demetrius chose Hermia because she was the better person, not just the most beautiful.
Overall, Helena does not change at all in this scene. Instead this scene shows how lowly she thinks of herself in greater detail. In any messed up love story there always seems to be the crazy obsessed girl who lusts after the man she can never have, and in this story, Helena is that girl.

A Midsummer Night Dream Character Analysis

Shakespere's A Midsummer Night Dream is full of many interesting and different characters. One of the most interesting is Helena. She is in a very tough predicament, she is madly in love with a man (Demetrius) who is about to marry another woman (Hermia). However, Hermia does not love Demetrius, but Demetrius loves Hermia. The only reason they plan to get married is because Hermia's father wants Hermia to marry him. If that's not crazy enough, we find out that while Demetrius was trying to get Hermia to fall in love with him, he slept with Helena. Basically, this is a very messed up love square.
Helena, unfortuneately, is in the worst position because nobody loves her. However, she is not only in love with Demetrius, she is obsessed. She chases after Demetrius in parts of the story to try to convince him to marry her. She also goes up to hermia to tell her how jealous she is of her and that she wishes she could be as fair or as beautiful as her. Hermia tries to be nice and says that she's not trying to take her man, but that no matter how much she pushes him away, the more he seems to want her. This causes Helena to become even more jealous and asks her to teach her how to do what she does. She is so madly in love that she doesn't realize she has no chance at all even though she knows Demetrius hates her. She is obsessed over a man and is in denial that nothing will ever happen between them.
In this book we find out that Helena is as pretty, if not more than Hermia. However, she does not view it this way. She sees herself as much uglier than Hermia which gives her an excuse as to why Demetrius doesn't like her. She cound not stand the fact that she is just as beautiful as hermia, yet Demetrius chose Hermia. Because of this, I think that her character would be very pretty but she would try to dress down so that she does not look as beautiful as Hermia. She would not put on make up or wear nice clothes in order to not look as good as hermia. This makes her feel better about herself because it makes her feel like it was a superficial reason that made Demetrius choose hermia over her instead of a personal reason. She would also not have much self-confidence because she has to go around begging to people to help her get what she want. She can't do anything on her own. Her character would be very needy.
She would also act very similarly as to how she looks. She doesn't want to look pretty so she'll act like other people are prettier than her and say that she isn't beautiful at all. She would act as though nothing ever goes her way in order to get sympathy from other people. She would complain how this one thing ruined her life in order to get people to feel sorry for her. This relates to her neediness because she wants to feel love, but the closest thing she can get is sympathy. She would focus too much on having other people give her what she wants instead of going out there and getting it for herself.