Act Three: Taunts and Tweets

Revising Characterization

By now, you’ve read up to Act Three and have experienced much more of the story. Thus, your ideas about characterization have either completely changed or been informed by the rest of the story. At this time, you should be revisiting your characterization paragraphs from our first activity. Your job is to revise your original assumptions in one of two ways; you can actually revise the paragraph by adding newly informed traits and revising your initial assumptions OR you can create a characterization chart to visualize the old and new traits you’ve discovered. Here at A Midsummer Night’s Dreaming, we value student choice and hope that your decisions will assist in your understanding of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and its characters.

Activity 3: Shakespearean Tangles and Modern Tweets

Now that you’ve had a chance to revise your original assumptions about your chosen character, it is time for a much more advanced activity. This activity will encompass the story so far, which means that you can pull from anything that happened in Act One, Act Two, or Act Three. You will be using the table below as a reference for the character interactions that have existed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream so far. The resource will give you an opportunity to participate in Shakesperean Tangles and Modern-Day Tweets, an activity that we’ve adapted from a linked resource. Once again, choice is an important part of our online environment; thus, you will choose one of the interactions that exists in the table below.

Once you’ve selected an interaction, your job is write about the different aspects that make up the interaction. Consider the following questions when you attempt to ‘voice’ these aspects:

–> What characteristics are present?
–> What thematic statements can you create based on these interactions?
–> How is love represented in these relationships?

Make sure to note any changed characterizations that may have occurred between Acts. Once you’ve proven that you can ‘voice’ the deeper meanings behind your chosen relationship, you will be given the chance to recreate the interaction through a modern-day lens. Using this link, students should take the time to figure out how these characters would have interacted with modern technology; though this is a fun activity, it must be remembered that you should be pulling from your own knowledge and from the play itself to prove that you understand the deeper concepts at play [Source].