Night and silence! Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear. This is he my master said Despised the Athenian maid. Puck sees Lysander, but he believes it to be Demetrius. Oberon only told him to look for a man in Athenian weeds (Athenian clothing). This would mean he was wearing a toga.
Furthermore, Lysander is lying alone on the dark and dank ground. Hermia told him to lie further off and not lie so near. Thus he moves away from Hermia and lets her sleep alone. Because of this, Puck believes the couple looks like they do not love eachother. This makes him believe that it is indeed Demetrius and Helena.
He annoints Lysander's eyes. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. (He annoints Lysander's eyelids with the nectar.)
When thou wak'st, let love forbid
Sleep his seat on thy eyelid.
So,awake when I am gone,
For I must now to Oberon.
Puck puts the love juice on Lysander (who he thinks is Demetrius's) eyes.
Enter Helena and Demetrius. Stay on thy peril. I alone will go. (Demetrius exits.)
Demetrius leaves Helena in the woods as he continues to pursue Hermia and Lysander.
Hermia is exhausted; she can't take this rejection anymore.
O, I am out of breath in this fond chase.
The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace (the more I try, the more he hates me)
Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies,
For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.
How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears.
If so, my eyes are oftener washed than hers.
Helena says here that Hermia has beautiful eyes. She wonders how she came to have these beautiful eyes. She says Hermia could not have gotten them from salt tears, for Helena has "washed" (cried) her eyes many more times than Hermia because of her sorrow over Demetrius.
What happens when Lysander is awakened??? https://www.youtube.com/
Not good. Not good at all. Lysander now madly dotes on fair Helena.
Content with Hermia? No, I do repent
the tedious minutes I with her have spent.
Not Hermia, but Helena I love.
He compares Helena to a dove (right) and Hermia to a raven (left)
This is a metaphor. Helena is a dove.
He says that he is like fruit that has now grown ripe and with this growth, he has grown reason.
His reason is telling him that Helena is the worthier maid.
Helena, however, is appalled at Lysander's behavior. She thinks he is mocking her:
Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?
Is 't not enough, it 't not enough, young man,
That I did never, no, nor never can
Deserve a sweet look from Demeetrius' eye.
She thought that Lysander was a kinder and more gentle man than the one she is currently seeing and is very disappointed in him. Hermia is her best friend, how could he do such a thing?
Read the final ten lines of Act 2 Scene 2 when Hermia awakens to Lysander gone and to a bad _______________.
Read Lines 152-163 Hermia wakes up in the wood.
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