Monday, October 15, 2007

Othello

Characters:

· Othello- noble moor in the service of venice

· Iago- antagonist of the play

o Desdemona- wife of Othello

o Cassio- Florentine Lieutenan

o Emilia - wife of Iago

o Bianca- a courtesan

Settings:

Venice and Cyprus

IMPORTANT EVENTS

- Othello stolen Desdemona and Mary her

- Brabantio accuses Othello of stealing his daughter by witchcraft

- Iago seen Desdemona and Cassio clasping the hand of Desdemona and he will use “as little a web as this”

- Othello arrives that there will be a celebration

- Iago counsels Roderigo that he should cast Cassio into disgrace by starting a fight, Cassio and the first crucial step to ruin Othello

- Cassio get drunk and Iago sends Roderigo to fight with him

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Characters

Puck- Oberon’s jester

- mischievous fairy who delights in playing prank on mortals

Oberon- the king of the fairies

Titania- the queen of fairies

Lysander- in love with Hermia

- in love with Hermia and sooner in love with

Helena

Hermia - in love with Lysander

- childhood friend of Helena

- Egeus daughter

Helena- in love with Demetrius

Egeus- Hermia’s father

Theseus- duke and engaged to Hyppolyta

Hyppolyta- legendary queen of amason

- engaged to Theseus

Bottom- his head transformed into an ass

Settings:

Ø Athens and Fairyland

Important events

- Hermia refuses to complay with her fathers wish for her to marry Demetrius

- Hermia and Lysander decided to elopely escaping the forest

- Demetrius found out the plan of Lysander and Hermia, because it was told by Helena

- Oberon and Titania quarrel because refuses to give her Indian page-to Oberon for use as his knigh

- Oberon seek to punish Titania obedience and asked puck to help him apply the love potion “love in idleness” which makes thevictim fall in love with the first living thing he sea. When he awaken

- Oberons seen Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, and he asked puck drop a love potion on the eyelids of the Demetrius and he also drop potion to Lysander. Both of them. Falls in love with Helena

- Helena thought that the two men was mocking her, and the four people

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