A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Mind Map on A Midsummer Night's Dream, created by lizzie.harley on 25/04/2014.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
  1. Transformations
    1. Emotional changes
      1. Theseus believes love has transformed Hippolyta from his enemy to his love. 'Hippolyta I'd woo thee with my sword'
        1. Lysander has used his charm to change Hermia. 'Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me to stubborn harshness'
          1. Hermia shows love has the capacity to change the way we view surroundings. 'That he hath turned heaven to hell.'
            1. 'Love can change a person's mind and judgement drastically'
          2. Natural world undergoes transformations
            1. Moon waxes and wanes on. 'This old moon wanes'
              1. Night turns into day.
              2. Physical transformation.
                1. Puck turns Bottom's head into an ass. 'What do you see, you see an ass of a head of your own do you?'
                  1. Puck transforms his voice to lead Lysander and Demetrius around the wood by mimicking their voices.
                    1. 'The woods are established as a region of metamorphosis' Ceser L Barber
                  2. Context
                    1. Ovid's Metamorphosis - Shakespeare's main literary source
                      1. Supernatural transformations - Bottom
                        1. Contains story of Pyramus and Thisbe.
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