仲夏夜之梦读书报告.ppt

1、,英语1303班 张延爽,A Midsummer Nights Dream,Contents,About the Author,Character and Relationships,Summary,Extracts,About the Author,William Shakespeare,William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatis

2、t . He is often called Englands national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.(艾冯河畔诗人）,About the Book,The drama made by shakespeare in 1596.And it belongs to Shakespeares early works. About Shakespeares comedy,usually have funny plot , romantic love story , sometimes have the conflicts with relatives . But i

3、n the end , comedies always have happy ending . Comparing with the tragedies written by Shakespeare ,his comedies are more interesting and more easy . They dont have many complicated relationship or some deep normal human feelings.,Hermia- beautiful , brave , kind , honesty . When her father force h

4、er to marry Demetrius , she voted against and escaped with Lysander. She was very honest to Lysander , and she did not hide her true heart to anybody including Helena .,Helena - crazy , eyeless for love , a little selfish . She loved Demetrius so deeply that she lost herself and followed him everywh

5、ere ,which was crazy and eyeless . When Demetrius and Lysander loved her , she enjoyed it and left her friend Hermia alone. We can see she is a little selfish .,Lysander- brave. He wanted to leave the city for being together with Hermia ,we could see his love for her is profound and true .,Demetrius

6、-play boy , selfish , not a gentleman . He only wanted to have Hermia and her beauty . When Helena followed him in the wood , he even said rude words to her .,Egeus-selfish , rude , cruel . He forced Hermia even wanted the law to kill her . He was not a good father.,King,Queen,Puck,Hermia,Lysander,E

7、geus(father),Demetrius,Helena,Wanted Hermia marry,Good friend,Manworld,Relationships,Oberon (King),Titania (Queen),Puck (fairy),ass (蠢驴),Have a contradiction with each other,Belong to,Special relationship,Fairy,Part 1,Egeus complained to duke that his daughter Hermia , whom he had commanded to marry

8、 Demetrius , refused to obey him, because she loved Lysander. Egeus wanted to use the law to force his daughter . So Hermia and Lysander planed to escape from Athens to another place . And they decided to meet in the wood . Hermia told their plan to her good friend Helena . As the result of love for

9、 Demetrius , Helena told him what Hermia had told her . Demetrius wanted to stop Hermia in the wood , and Helena followed him .,Part 2,The wood in which Lysander and Hermia planed to meet was the fairyland. Oberon was the king and Titania was the queen. At the same time , they were quarrelling about

10、 a little changeling boy. Oberon wanted to have the boy as his henchman, but Titania didnt give him to Oberon. In order to give her a lesson , he asked his Puck to get love-in-idleness. If you putted the juice from the love-in-idleness on sleeping mans eyelids , the man would fell in love with the f

11、irst creature he or she saw.,Part 3,Oberon saw Helena and Demetrius in the wood by accident , realizing Helena loved Demetrius so much ,Oberon felt sorry for Helena and he decided to use love juice to make Demetrius love Helena. He told Puck what he wanted to do ,but Puck putted love juice on Lysand

12、ers eyelids because he thought Lysander was Demetrius . The first person Lysander saw was Helena ,so he loved Helena . At the same time , love juice putted on Demetriuss eyelids and that made him love Helena because she was the first person he saw . All the things made Hermia surprised and angry eve

13、n having a fight with Helena . Oberon also putted love juice to queens eyelids , and the first thing her saw was an ass. She loved the ass at once.,Part 4,After realizing that they all did wrong, the king and Puck decided to stop all things . Puck used magic to let the four humans sleep , and put lo

14、ve juice on their eyelids . When they opened their eyes , Lysander saw Hermia and Demetrius saw Helena. They went back to the Athens . Bacause Demetrius loved Helena at that time, Hermia s father didnt force her to marry Demetrius . Besides, the four people hold weddings on the same day. Oberon remo

15、ved the magic of the love juice on Titania and made peace with each other . At that moment , they knew that they all did wrong , and they lived together , had a happy life . It is the happy ending in Midsummer Nights Dream.,Things base and vile , holding no quantity , Love can transpose to form and

16、dignity . Love looks not with the eyes , but with the mind , And therefore is wingd Cupid painted blind .,许多卑贱的东西本身并不好 爱情把它变的堂皇的不得了 爱情不是用眼睛看，而是用心 所以插翅的丘比特被画成瞎子,If the true lovers have been ever crossd It stands as an edict in destiny : Then let us teach our trial patience, Because it is a customary

17、cross , As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs , Wishes and tears , poor fancys followers .,如果真正的情人永远遭受折磨， 那也是命中注定的事情了。 我们该鼓起耐心来受苦难， 因为那是情场中不能免的常有的折磨， 恰似愁思、梦想、叹息、愿望与眼泪， 都是随着爱情而来的东西。,If there a sympathy in choice , War , death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound , Swift as a shadow , short as any dream , Brief as the lightning in the collied night , That , in a spleen , unfolds both heaven