ملتقى طلاب وطالبات جامعة الملك فيصل,جامعة الدمام - عرض مشاركة واحدة - اللغة الانجليزية third year english student second term

jawaher · 2011- 6- 7

السؤال الاول
The important questions:
1-The play as a parody of serious love.
A parody is another play that represents a criticism of another play in a funny way. The craftsmen’s play is a parody of “Romeo and Juliet”. “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy about a serious love story. When you see it, you cry and sympathize with the tragic heroes. Young people (Romeo and Juliet) suffer from the parents. Their parents reject their marriage. So, they get a secret marriage. They get married and they still suffer. They want to separate them. At the end, Juliet drugs herself and when Romeo comes and finds her, he thinks that she died, so he kills himself. Then she wakes up and she finds him dead, so she kills herself. And they become victims of their parents and their tradition.
You have to say parody is an imitation of another text but in a funny way. You have to talk about love. You have to say that love is a major theme in the play and you have to say that there are several love stories; they are subplots. William Shakespeare employed Baroque technique to present them as circles. In the first subplot, Hermia loves Lysander against the will of her father and her father wants to marry her to Demetrius. In the second subplot, Helena loves Demetrius and chases him because he is her first love and then he changes to Hermia when his eyes first see her. And you continue talking about the rest subplots.
You can say that all the love stories are funny, but the love story of Duke Theseusand Hippolyta is not funny.It is the only serious love story in the play. But the other love stories: you see lovers chasing one another and begging one another for love and you see how Helena tells Demetrius to consider her his dog. Even the kind of swearing they use is funny. Even the fight is humorous rather than offending/rather than disgusting. The dadist technique is meant to disgust.
The love stories go in circles and sometimes the circles intersect. Queen Titania teases Oberon and tells him that he used to love Hippolyta and now she will marry Theseus. So,he tells her that he knows about her love to Theseus. So, we see people from the fairy land love people from Athens. Thus, the love stories intersect. Also, the fairy queen; Titania, falls in love with Bottom the human from Athens. And Oberon; the King of the fairies, interferes to correct Demetrius to make him back to his first love; Helena.
What does Shakespeare make us laugh at the lovers? First in most of his plays, he always criticizes the courtly love tradition and shows the courtly lovers as stupid, foolish, and funny. The courtly lovers show no dignity; they humiliate themselves. In most of his plays, he satirizes the medieval courtly love tradition. This is one reason. There is another reason. He believes that love is blind and he always refers to Cupid; the god of love. And you should mention the story of Cupid. Cupid is a mischievous boy who is painted as a blind boy or a boy with a bandage over his eyes. Lovers do not need their eyes because they love through their mind. Their eyes deceive them; they make them unable to see the defects of their lovers. So, they look funny. So, you should talk about Cupid.
And then you should say that Shakespeare uses four modern technical devices to parodies the love stories in the play:
- Gendermandering: it is gender role reversal. For example, Helena takes the role of the man and chases Demetrius. Demetrius rejects her love. It looks funny. The audience loves at her. She begs him to consider her like his dog.
-Expressionism: Puck metamorphoses Bottom into an ass and Titania falls in love with him. Shakespeare means to reduce Bottom into an animal. He means to satirize him. He satirizes him because Bottom represents the poor craftsmen in England who are oppressed and they do nor revolt against Queen Elizabeth. They do not fight for their rights. There is a political hint in this part.
- Surrealism: we talk about the verbal fight between the lovers. We say there are verbal fights between the lovers. And we should mention Hermia who clings in the arm of Demetrius and he pushes her away and he tells her that she is Ethiopian Ethiopian’, ‘serpent’, ‘Tartar’, ‘loathedmedicine’ and ‘hatedpotion’. He is swearing words do not offend as much as they make people laugh.
-intertextuality: Shakespeare gives intertextuality as one of the tools to parodies serious love. We said that allusion is part of intertextuality and we will say that parody is also part of intertextuality. We say that the craftsmen’s play “Pyramus and Thisbe” is a parody of Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”. By the way, “Romeo and Juliet” is written by William Shakespeare in the same year in which he wrote “A midsummer night’s dream”.
At last, we say that Shakespeare accumulates different kinds of love relationships in his play:
- Love at first sight. (There is courtly love and non-courtly love). Demetrius when he first saw Helena, Lysander and Helena and Titania and Bottom.
It reflects the workings of Cupid. Cupid shoots his invisible arrows into the hearts of the lovers and they fall in love immediately with the first person they see. This kind of love makes the eyes of the lovers charmed; they do not see the defects of the lovers. It is a foolish kind of love.
- Love at one side (unrequited love).
It is unexchangeable love. It is from one side. Helena loves Demetrius at the beginning and he does not love her. Demetrius loves Hermia and she does not love him. And you should talk about the courtly love tradition (a man is chasing a woman and the woman is rejecting him).
- love by force/ false love.
Lysander loves Helena under the power of magic and Demetrius loves Helena under the power of magic. In the case of Lysander and Helena, their love relationship fails at the end, but Demetrius and Helena relationships continues because Oberon thinks that he has corrected Demetrius/ he has cured him by magic. Demetrius takes it as a fate and he accepts Helena his first love and he does not object. Titania lobe Bottom as an ass and forces him to her bed and asks her fairies to tie up his tongue. It fails because Oberon has releases the charm from Titania’s eyes and she changes her mind and she considers her experience as a nightmare, but Bottom considers it as a wonderful dream.
- requited love.
It is between Lysander and Hermia. It is a mutual love.

2011- 6- 7	#4331
jawaher أكـاديـمـي نــشـط الملف الشخصي: رقم العضوية : 28828 تاريخ التسجيل: Sun Jun 2009 المشاركات: 144 الـجنــس : أنـثـى عدد الـنقـاط : 2535 مؤشر المستوى: 71 بيانات الطالب: الكلية: كلية الاداب الدراسة: انتظام التخصص: انجليزي المستوى: المستوى السادس	رد: third year english student second term السؤال الاول The important questions: 1-The play as a parody of serious love. A parody is another play that represents a criticism of another play in a funny way. The craftsmen’s play is a parody of “Romeo and Juliet”. “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy about a serious love story. When you see it, you cry and sympathize with the tragic heroes. Young people (Romeo and Juliet) suffer from the parents. Their parents reject their marriage. So, they get a secret marriage. They get married and they still suffer. They want to separate them. At the end, Juliet drugs herself and when Romeo comes and finds her, he thinks that she died, so he kills himself. Then she wakes up and she finds him dead, so she kills herself. And they become victims of their parents and their tradition. You have to say parody is an imitation of another text but in a funny way. You have to talk about love. You have to say that love is a major theme in the play and you have to say that there are several love stories; they are subplots. William Shakespeare employed Baroque technique to present them as circles. In the first subplot, Hermia loves Lysander against the will of her father and her father wants to marry her to Demetrius. In the second subplot, Helena loves Demetrius and chases him because he is her first love and then he changes to Hermia when his eyes first see her. And you continue talking about the rest subplots. You can say that all the love stories are funny, but the love story of Duke Theseusand Hippolyta is not funny.It is the only serious love story in the play. But the other love stories: you see lovers chasing one another and begging one another for love and you see how Helena tells Demetrius to consider her his dog. Even the kind of swearing they use is funny. Even the fight is humorous rather than offending/rather than disgusting. The dadist technique is meant to disgust. The love stories go in circles and sometimes the circles intersect. Queen Titania teases Oberon and tells him that he used to love Hippolyta and now she will marry Theseus. So,he tells her that he knows about her love to Theseus. So, we see people from the fairy land love people from Athens. Thus, the love stories intersect. Also, the fairy queen; Titania, falls in love with Bottom the human from Athens. And Oberon; the King of the fairies, interferes to correct Demetrius to make him back to his first love; Helena. What does Shakespeare make us laugh at the lovers? First in most of his plays, he always criticizes the courtly love tradition and shows the courtly lovers as stupid, foolish, and funny. The courtly lovers show no dignity; they humiliate themselves. In most of his plays, he satirizes the medieval courtly love tradition. This is one reason. There is another reason. He believes that love is blind and he always refers to Cupid; the god of love. And you should mention the story of Cupid. Cupid is a mischievous boy who is painted as a blind boy or a boy with a bandage over his eyes. Lovers do not need their eyes because they love through their mind. Their eyes deceive them; they make them unable to see the defects of their lovers. So, they look funny. So, you should talk about Cupid. And then you should say that Shakespeare uses four modern technical devices to parodies the love stories in the play: - Gendermandering: it is gender role reversal. For example, Helena takes the role of the man and chases Demetrius. Demetrius rejects her love. It looks funny. The audience loves at her. She begs him to consider her like his dog. -Expressionism: Puck metamorphoses Bottom into an ass and Titania falls in love with him. Shakespeare means to reduce Bottom into an animal. He means to satirize him. He satirizes him because Bottom represents the poor craftsmen in England who are oppressed and they do nor revolt against Queen Elizabeth. They do not fight for their rights. There is a political hint in this part. - Surrealism: we talk about the verbal fight between the lovers. We say there are verbal fights between the lovers. And we should mention Hermia who clings in the arm of Demetrius and he pushes her away and he tells her that she is Ethiopian Ethiopian’, ‘serpent’, ‘Tartar’, ‘loathedmedicine’ and ‘hatedpotion’. He is swearing words do not offend as much as they make people laugh. -intertextuality: Shakespeare gives intertextuality as one of the tools to parodies serious love. We said that allusion is part of intertextuality and we will say that parody is also part of intertextuality. We say that the craftsmen’s play “Pyramus and Thisbe” is a parody of Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”. By the way, “Romeo and Juliet” is written by William Shakespeare in the same year in which he wrote “A midsummer night’s dream”. At last, we say that Shakespeare accumulates different kinds of love relationships in his play: - Love at first sight. (There is courtly love and non-courtly love). Demetrius when he first saw Helena, Lysander and Helena and Titania and Bottom. It reflects the workings of Cupid. Cupid shoots his invisible arrows into the hearts of the lovers and they fall in love immediately with the first person they see. This kind of love makes the eyes of the lovers charmed; they do not see the defects of the lovers. It is a foolish kind of love. - Love at one side (unrequited love). It is unexchangeable love. It is from one side. Helena loves Demetrius at the beginning and he does not love her. Demetrius loves Hermia and she does not love him. And you should talk about the courtly love tradition (a man is chasing a woman and the woman is rejecting him). - love by force/ false love. Lysander loves Helena under the power of magic and Demetrius loves Helena under the power of magic. In the case of Lysander and Helena, their love relationship fails at the end, but Demetrius and Helena relationships continues because Oberon thinks that he has corrected Demetrius/ he has cured him by magic. Demetrius takes it as a fate and he accepts Helena his first love and he does not object. Titania lobe Bottom as an ass and forces him to her bed and asks her fairies to tie up his tongue. It fails because Oberon has releases the charm from Titania’s eyes and she changes her mind and she considers her experience as a nightmare, but Bottom considers it as a wonderful dream. - requited love. It is between Lysander and Hermia. It is a mutual love.