Midsummer Night's Dream Plot Review

Put the events of the play in order of (1) Exposition, (2) Rising Action, (3) Climax (4) Falling Action, and (5) Denouement/Resolution

Climax

Falling Action

Rising Action

DenoumentResolution

Exposition

• Resolution

• In the woods, a fairy named Puck tries to solve the love triangle and accidentally makes Lysander fall in love with Helena and Titania falls in love with a Donkey

• Climax

• Hermia runs away with her love, Lysander. However, before she does, she tells her friend Helena, who is in love with Demetrius.

• Rising Action

• In the end, everyone is married! The workmen put on a ridiculous play and Puck ends it by asking the players to consider it all a dream!

• Falling Action

• The Duke, while riding in the forest, comes upon the lovers. Upon hearing their story he is confused but invites them to be married during his wedding ceremony

• Exposition

• The Duke of Athens is to be married to Queen Hippolyta while two young men, Demetrius and Lysander fall in love with Hermia. Hermia's father says she must marry Demetrius or die

c

d

e

f

b

a

Love is Never Easy

ACT 3

ACT 4

ACT 5

ACT 2

ACT 1