Summary of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act One

In Act 1, Scene 1, Theseus has planned to marry Hippolyta on the new moon (in four days). Also, Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, but Hermia has fallen in love with Lysander. Egeus doesn’t believe that Hermia is in love with Lysander and he thinks that Lysander has put a love spell on Hermia to fall in love with Lysander. Egeus told Theseus and Hermia that he owns Hermia and Egeus told Theseus and Hermia that he owns Hermia and what he says goes. Theseus agreed and decided that if Hermia doesn’t marry Demetrius, she will become a nun or she will be killed. Lysander points out that Demetrius wasn’t a good person, because Demetrius said that he loved Helena, but then dumped her after he saw Hermia. It was a very good point that Lysander made, but it didn’t change Theseus’s or Egeus’s mind. Afterwards, Lysander told Hermia that they should run away and get married a couple of miles outside of Athens, where Lysader’s Aunt lives and will take them in at midnight the next day in the forest. They see Helena, Hermia’s frenemy and Hermia tells her Lysander’s romantic plan, but Helena still madly still in love with Demetrius after he rejected her, is going to tell Demetrius Lysander’s plan, thinking that Demetrius will somehow like her again. She also thinks that Demetrius will be grateful for want she has done.

Act 1, Scene 2, some of the middle class workers are going to put on a play for Theseu’s and Hippolyta’s wedding. Quince (carpenter) is the director of the show and is playing Thisbe’s father in the show. Bottom (overconfident weaver that makes a lot of silly mistakes) is playing Pyramus the show and is very big jerk to other people. Flute (bellows repairman) is playing Thisbe, a girl and has to talk in a very high, squeaky voice in the show. Starveling (tailor) is playing Thisbe’s mother, Snout (handyman) is chosen to play Pyramus’s father, and Snug (cabinetmaker) is to play a lion and he afraid that he will scare the ladies in the audience and will get in trouble. They are to meet at the forest to practice and get the props ready.

~Diego R 783

P.S. I think that the middle class workers in the play and Lysander and Hermia an are going to bump into each other. The middle class is going to see that Lysander and Hermia are running away.

P. P.S. I think that Demetrius will be there, too.