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The play
Demetrius and Lysander vow to protect Helena from Hermia, but they quickly become angry with each other and storm off into the forest to fight. Helena runs away from Hermia, and Hermia, reannouncing her amazement at the turn of events, -
Friends
Hermia holds Lysander back, provoking his scorn and disgust Hermia begins to suspect that Helena has somehow acted to steal Lysander’s love from her, -
Lovers
Helena, who is likewise unable to understand why both men could be in love with her, she assumes that Hermia is involved in the joke that she believes the men are playing on her, and she yells at Hermia furiously for treating their friendship so lightly. -
The voice
Hermia reenters, having heard Lysander from a distance. When she learns that her beloved Lysander now claims to love Helena, as does Demetrius, she is shocked and angry. -
Messed up love
When Hermia is gone, Oberon sends Puck to find Helena and squeezes the flower juice onto Demetrius’s eyelids. Puck quickly returns, saying that Helena is close behind him. Helena enters with Lysander still saying he is madly inlove with her. -
Love potion
ermia, discovering Demetrius after losing Lysander, enters the clearing with Demetrius. Puck is surprised to see the woman he saw earlier with a different man from the one he put the potion on. -
Orbron the king
Oberon watches and wonders if Titania has felt the effect of the love potion yet. Then Puck comes over and tells Oberon that she has fallen inlove with Bottom. Oberon is delighted with his success of his plan, and watches on. -
Problems in the play
Bottom is afraid that Pyramus' suicide for love will frighten the ladies, then he comes up with a solution. He says that they will come up with a prologue saying that Pyramus does not die and Pyramus is not Pyramus but a weaver. They are also worried about the lion fearing the women in the audience, and the moonlight not being portrayed in the play. -
acting in the woods
Quince and his acting crew meet up in the woods and are about to reherse the play, when they get confused by questions and conflicts regarding the play. -
The love potion
Oberon sends Puck to stop Lysander and Demetrius from fighting, and he makes them so tired that they all fall asleep. Puck squeezes the magic potion onto their eyes once again and in the morning all will be normal.
