The biggest gender role being overturned is by Hermia. She
refuses to marry the man her father has chosen for her and plans to run away
with her lover, Lysander. Helena also overturned her gender role; when she took
off after Demetrius and pleaded for him to love her. The Fairy Queen, Titania,
wouldn’t give up the indian boy when asked by the Fairy King, Oberon. In the
end, Hippolyta, complains of the play and says to her new husband that his
imagination must be bad. Puck explains the title on page 171-172, Act 5, scene
1. “. . .That you have but slumbered here Whilest these vision did appear. And
this weak and idle-theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not
reprehend.”
Medelssohn's wedding March for the play
What might be effect of Puck's speech on the audience, from a rhetorical standpoint?
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