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Midsummer Night's Dream Climax

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The exposition consist of, four Athenian lovers are faced with complications, while Hermia loves Lysander she is ordered to marry Demetrius who loves her but is loved by Helena, Hermia childhood friend. The rising actions is when Hermia is due to death because she refuses her fathers wish for her to marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander run off together and are followed by Demetrius and Helena. Puck a privy counsellor was ordered by Oberon to place love drops in Demetrius eyes but he makes a mistake and places the drops in both mens eyes. The climax of the story is when Demetrius and Lysander began to fight over Helena when before their fight would've been over Hermia. The falling action is while Helena and Hermia are now fighting, Oberon took pity towards Titania and reversed the love juice. The denouement is the two then went to see the four lovers while Puck reversed Lysander's love juice. Now Demetrius is in love with Helena and ordered that Hermia and Lysander marry while he marries Helena,
4. There are many antagonist and protagonist in A Midsummer Night's Dream. The protagonist are the four lovers, the Queen and King fairies and Punk. The antagonist is the hardship that follows love.
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The settings in A Midsummer Night's Dream includes the woods, punks personality, Helena's thoughts when both Lysander and Demetrius profess their love for her, the law in the city of Athens, and Hermia love for Lysander. We learn the extent of the law in the city of Athens which Hermia father Egeus, commanded to be enforced on his daughter. After Theseus dismissed Hermia, she went to her love Lysander, moved by Hermia willingness to die for him he proposed they run off to his aunt's together. They were to meet in the woods where they have often walked. Punk's foolish personality is expressed and explains his mistake. When Lysander and Demetrius fall in love with Helena, she becomes angry thinking everyone is playing with

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