Quotation+Analysis+Practice+9th+grade

 **Sample Quotation: **  **   On the ground    **      Please note: The analysis above is longer than you will be able to do under the time constraints of the exam. It is meant to show you the kind of thinking I'm looking for on the exam. A response of half or a third of this length would be enough if you showcase your analytical skills appropriately. You should strive to provide a response that has depth and originality. LCTC are doors that will help you open up the text. They will help you see angles rich with interpretive potential. Remember, it is not enough to paraphrase or summarize the quotation. Putting it into contemporary speech is not enough. You must analyze/interpret the passage. STRIVE FOR LITERARY GREATNESS, SCHOLARS! THAT SHINING ORB IS GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER AND CLOSER!
 *  Sleep sound.   **
 *  I’ll apply   **
 *  To your eye,   **
 *  Gentle lover, remedy.   **
 *  When thou wak’st   **
 *  Thou tak’st   **
 *  True delight   **
 *  In the sight   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> Of thy former lady’s eye.   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> And the country proverb known,   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> That every man should take his own,   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> In your waking shall be shown.   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> Jack shall have Jill;   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> Naught shall go ill’   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> Speaker: Puck/Robin Goodfellow   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> Situation: After leading the Demetrius and Lysander through the woods, to the sleeping lovers   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> Analysis (sample below)   **
 * <span style="color: rgb(16, 147, 35);"> In Puck’s soliloquy/aside, the metaphor in the closing line comparing Hermia to a mare has serious thematic implications. Through this figure of speech, Puck implies that women are property and subhuman. This mirrors Theseus’s views. His perception of gender roles is clearly expressed in his simile comparing women to a form in wax (shaped or destroyed by men) and his argument that women should choose to be as a distilled rose (crushed and transformed by male authority). Similarly, Puck’s words echo those of Egeus who views his daughter as property (“as she is mine,” he argues to Theseus). Oddly enough, a woman, Helena, willingly embraces this world view when she pathetically offers to be the spaniel of Demetrius—simultaneously property and subhuman. While Helena voluntarily accepts such a degrading role, Hermia and Titania refuse to submit to male authority and reject this sexist world view. On a different note, Puck’s allusion to a folk tale suggests that he is an optimist. He assumes that “all shall be well” in this world as it was in the proverb. Throughout the play, characters make similar assumptions, and these often prove false. For example, the faerie sentinel protecting Titania pronounces “all is well” when it definitely is not. Bottom and Helena’s assumptions that others are playing jokes on them are similarly incorrect, so one is justified in being suspicious of Puck’s optimistic prediction. The fact that he is, in effect, prophesizing, combined with the reference to truth earlier in this passage may make this one of many subtle allusions to Apollo woven into the fabric of this play. Given that Puck often seems to enjoy causing mischief and chaos, it is reasonable to question whether or not he really desires such a neat and orderly solution. Oberon accuses him of intentionally making mistakes to promote chaos, so the reader may rightfully be suspicious of whether or not what he says truly reflects what he desires (and desire itself, after all, is at the thematic core of this drama). Another thematic pattern evident in this passage is reflected in the multiple references to eyes. These link Puck’s words to the broader issue of perception in the text. In the opening scene, for example, it is evident that men and women do not perceive reality the same way. Throughout the text, Shakespeare explores conflicts in perception, faulty vision, and the forces that shape how one sees reality. This passage contributes to this debate by raising questions about how much outside forces alter human perception. Finally, given the title of the play, the line "when thou wak’st" is noteworthy and rich with interpretative potential. The boundary between dream and reality is at times (like in this passage) clearly defined and at other times (when Hermia's dream regarding the serpent seems to reflect reality directly) blurry at best. Shakespeare uses this passage and others to raise serious questions regarding the nature of reality, consciousness, and the unconscious. The play challenges the reader to consider whether or not dreams and reality—or perhaps the conscious and the unconscious—are, in fact, separate or ultimately indistinguishable.   **


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(1.1.47-53) Theseus: What you say, Hermia? Be advised, fair maid. To you, your father should be as a god, One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.
 * ACT 1**

-Ashley Ball Per. 5

(1.1. 101-112) I am, my lord, as well derived as he, - As well possessed. My love is more than his; - My fortunes every way as fairly ranked (If not with vantage) as Demetrius'; - And (which is more than all these boasts can be) - I am beloved of beauteous Hermia. - Why should not I then prosecute my right? -Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head, - Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, - And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes, - Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, - Upon this spotted and inconstant man. Ben Ruoff Per 5

(1.1.172-181) I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow,\ By his best arrow with the golden head,\ By the simplicity of Venus' doves,\ By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,\ And by that fire which burned the Carthage queen\ When the false Trojan under sail was seen,\ By all the vows that ever men have broke\ (In number more than ever woman spoke),\ In that same place thou hast appointed me,\Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee. Ben Chase Per 6 (backslashes work)

Theseus: Take time to pause, and by the next new moon— The sealing day betwixt my love and me For everlasting bond of fellowship— Upon that day either prepare to die For disobedience to your father's will, Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would, Or on Diana's altar to protest For aye austerity and single life. -Sydney Carpenter Period 6**
 * (1.1.83-90)

I swear to thee by Cupid’s strongest bow/By his best arrow with the golden head/By the simplicity of Venus’ doves/By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves/And by that fire which burned the Carthage queen/When false Trojan under sail was seen/By all the vows that ever men have made.(1,1, 171-178) -Omar Hussein Period 6

//(1.1 47-53)//
===What say you, Hermia? Be advised, fair maid. - To you, your father should be as a god, - One that composed your beauties, yea, and one - To whom you are but as a form in wax - By him imprinted, and within his power - to leave the figure or disfigure it - Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.===

-Jessica Andrews Period 5
__Lysander:__** Content with Hermia? No, I do repent The tedious minutes I wish with her have spent. Not Hermia, but Helena I love. Who will not change a raven for a dove? The will of man is by his reason swayed, And reason says you are the worthier maid. Things growing are not ripe until their season; So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason. And touching now the point of human skill, Reason becomes the marshal to my will And leads me to my eyes, where I o'erlook Love's stories written in love's richest book. (2.2.118-129) -Neelima G. Period 5
 * ACT 2

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Oberon: "That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once: The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees. Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again Ere the leviathan can swim a league."(2.1.161-180) -George Eidson period 5======

Helena: Your virtue is my priveiledge. For that/ It is not night when I do see your face,/ Therefore I think I am anot in the night./ Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you, in my respect, are all the world./ Then, how can it be said I am alone/ When all the world is here to on me?(2.1 227-233)- Stephen Nash period 5

Titania: "The Fairyland buys not the child of me. His mother was a vot'ress of my order, And in the spicèd Indian air by night Full often hath she gossiped by my side And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands, Marking th' embarkèd traders on the flood, When we have laughed to see the sails conceive And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait, Following (her womb then rich with my young squire), Would imitate and sail upon the land To fetch me trifles and return again, As from a voyage, rich with merchandise."(2.1 126-139) -Ryan Night period 6

(2,1 235-241) Helena: The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will. The story shall be changed: Apollo flies and Daphne holds the chase; The dove persues the griffin; The mild hind makes speed to catch the tiger. Bootless speed When cowardice persues and the valor flies! -Miles Pflueger
 * ACT2

Set your heart at rest: The fairy land buys not the child of me. His mother was a votaress of my order: And, in the spiced Indian air, by night, Full often hath she gossip'd by my side, And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands, Marking the embarked traders on the flood, When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait Following,--her womb then rich with my young squire,-- Would imitate, and sail upon the land, To fetch me trifles, and return again, As from a voyage, rich with merchandise. But she, being mortal, of that boy did die; And for her sake do I rear up her boy, And for her sake I will not part with him.** -Molly Cordell**
 * (2.1.125-142)

(2.2.152-163) Help me, Lysander, help me! Do thy best to pluck this crawling serpent from my breast. Ay me, for pity! What a dream was here! Lysander, look how i do quake with fear. Methought a serpent ate my heart away, and you sat smiling at his cruel prey. Lysander! What, removed? Lysander, lord! What, our of hearing? Gone? Nou sound, no word? Alack, where are you? Speak, an if you hear. Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear.- No? Then i well perceive you are not nigh. Either death or you i'll find immediately. -Harry Pham

(2.2.58-66) Lysander riddles very prettily:/Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,/If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied./But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy/Lie further off; in human modesty,/Such separation as may well be said/Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,/So far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend:/Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end! cooper vinal

(2.1. 236-41) The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies. -Iliana Taylor

(2.2.375-86)

Theseus: My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,/ So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hund/ With ears that sweep away the morning dew;/ Cook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;/ Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,/ Each under each. A cry more tunable/ Was never holloed to, not in Thessaly./ Judge when you hear.-But soft! What nymphs are/ these? (4.1 123-132) -John Ball Period 5 ===**Oberon!**: Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight./Hie, therefore, Robin, overcast the night;/The starry welkin cover thou anon/With drooping fog as black as Acheron,/And lead these testy rivals so astray/As one come not within another's way./Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue;/Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong./And sometime rail thou like Demetrius./And from each other look thou lead them thus,/Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep/With leaden legs and battle wings doth creep. ACT 3 scene 1: (p.71)===

===Bottom- Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must be seen through the lion's neck, and he himself must speak through, saying thus or to the same defect: "Ladies," or "Fair Ladies, I would wish you," or "I would request you," or "I would entreat you not to fear, not to tremble! My life for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity of my life. No, I am no such thing. I am a man as other men are." And there indeed let him name his name and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner. -Elizabeth Gentry===

===Helena: ".....The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us---O, is all forgot? All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition...." Act 3 sc. 2 (pg 97) lines 204-215 -Grant Reynolds p.6===

===Hermia: " Now but i chide, but should i use thee worse,- for thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse.- If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,- being o'er shoes in blood, plung in the deep- and kill me too.- The sun was not so true unto the day- as he to me. Would he have stolen away- from sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon- as this whole earth may be bored, and that the moon- may through the center creep and so displease- her brother's noontide with th' Antipodes.- It cannot be but thou hast murdered him.- So should a muderer look, so dead, so grim."(3.2.47-59) Alanna Nawrocki. Period 6.===

===Helena: "Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn, To follow me and praise my eyes and face, and made your other love, Demetrius, Who even but now did spurn me with his foot, To call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare, Precious celestial? Wherefor speaks he this To her he hates? And wherefore doth Lysander Deny your love (so rich within his soul) And tender me, forsooth, affection, But by your setting on, by your consent? What though I be not so in grace as you, So hung upon whit love, so fortunate, But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise." Act 3. Scene. 2 pg. 99. L. 227-240.===

===Natalie Ball- Period 5. Oberon: " But we are spirits of another sort: I with the morning's love have oft made sport, And, like a forester, the groves made tread, Even till the eastern gate, all fiery red, Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams, Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams, But notwithstanding, haste! Make no delay. We may effect this business yet ere day." (3.2.410-417) Brian Mayer....Period 5===

===Lysander: "He goes before me and still dares me on. When I come where he calls, then he is gone. The villain is much lighter-heeled then I. I followed fast, but faster he did fly, that fallen am I in dark uneven way, and here will rest me. Come, thou gentle day, for if but once thou show me thy gray light, I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite." (3.2.440-447)===

Ray Huang P6 **Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason** **and love keep little company together nowadays. The more the pity that some honest neighbors** **will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion. (3.1.144-149)

//Nathan May Period 5//** **Oberon: Flower of the purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye. When his love he doth espy, Let her shine as gloriously As the Venus of the sky. When thou wak'st, if she be by, Beg of her for remedy. (3.2.104-111) __Ryan Gousse- Period 6__** **ACT 4** Theseus: "My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, so flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung with the ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells. each under each. A cry more tunable was never holloed to, nor cheered with horn, in Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly. Judge when you hear. - But soft! What nymphs are these?" Lines 122-132 page 129.

Trevor Hartog, Period 6 "Go, one of you, find out the Forester./ For now our observation is performed,/ And, since we have the vaward of the day,/ My love shall hear the music of my hounds./ Uncouple in the western valley; let them go./ Dispatch, I say, and find the Forester. " (4.1.107-112)

Tori Mason, period 5** **"But, my good lord, I wot not by what power / (But by some power it is) my love to Hermia, / Melted as snow, seems to me now / As the remembrance of an idle gaud / Which in my childhood I did dote upon, / And all the faith, the virtue of my heart, / The object and the pleasure of mine eye, / Is only Helena. To her, my lord, / Was I betrothed ere I [saw] Hermia. / But like a sickness did I loathe this food. / But, as in health, come to my natural taste, / Now I do wish it, love it, long for it, / And will forevermore be true to it." (4.1.171-182)

//Jessica Kelly//, Period 5** "And that same, which sometime on the buds/ Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls, / Stood now within the pretty flouriets'eyes, / Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail. / When I had at my pleasure taunted her, / And she in mild terms begged my patience, / I then did ask of her her changeling child, / Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent to bear him to my bower in Fairyland. / and now I have the boy, I will undo / This hateful imperfection of her eyes." (4.1.54-64)

===Isabella Lopez, Period 5 4.1.210-229 BOTTOM [Awaking] When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho! Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout, the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there is no man can tell what. Methought I was,--and methought I had,--but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the duke: peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death.===

===~ Samuel Savitz. **//"My lord, I shall reply amazedly,/ half sleep, half waking. But as yet, I swear,/ I cannot truly say how I came before./ But, as I think-for truly would I speak,/ and now I do bethink me, so it is:/ I came with Hermia hither. Our intent/ was to be gone from Athens, where we might,/ without the peril of the Athenian law-" -Lysander (4,1,152-159)//**===

===Olivia van den Berg period 6 **//"My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,/ So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung,/ With ears that sweep away the morning dew;/ Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;/ Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,/ Each under each. A cry more tunable,/ Was never holloed to, nor in Thessaly./ Judge when you hear.-But soft! What nymphs are,/ these? -" -Theseus (4,1,123-132)//**===

** Will even weigh, and both as light as tales. **
James Stockton period 5 3.2. 130-136

I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow,\ By his best arrow with the golden head,\ By the simplicity of Venus' doves\ By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,\ And by that fire which burned Carthage queen\ When the falso Trojan under sail was seen,\ By all to the vows that ever men have broke\ (In number more than ever woman spoke,\ In that same place thou hast appointed me, \Tomorrow truly will i meet thee. (1.1 172-181) Chase Allen period 5

"The eye of \ man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, \ man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to \ conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream \ was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this \ dream. It shall be called "Bottom's Dream" be- \ cause it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the \ latter end of a play, before the Duke. Peradventure, \ to make it the gracious, I shall sing it at her \ death." (4. 2. 220-229) Cat Galletti Period 6


 * ACT 5**

Theseus: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,\ such shaping fantasies, that apprehend\ more than cool reason ever comprehends.\ The lunatic, the lover, and the poet\ Are of imagination all compact.\ One sees more devils than vast hell can hold:\ That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,\ Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.\ The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,\ Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,\ And as imagination bodies forth\ The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen\ Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing\ A local habitation and a name. (5.1.2-18) Sydney