Examine Robin's final speech in the play. To whom is he speaking? What is this speech about? What is the significance of ending the play with Robin and with this speech in particular?
Robin's speech is dedicated to the audience. Readers of the script may forget that the script is preformed. The wording may confuse the reader of the script. "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended-- That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear," Robin says at the end of the play. The whole play revolves around day and night and the senseless aspect of it all. During the day common sense returns while during the night the sanity is lost. Now the perfect character to tell the audience that it is a dream is a fictional character. No one is better than Puck because of his mischevious behavior. He also asks for the audience to believe he is honest. This can be seen as something that is unbelieveable because he is a mischevious character. This means that when he tells the audience that it is a dream they might not believe him. Then when he reveals he is telling the truth they may or may not believe in this speech. But, Robin asks that they clap for the actors and their problems will no longer be their. He also says he is a liar if he does not make this true. As confusing as this is it can be summed up that a fictional character says the story is fictional and then says I will help you. This speech leaves the audience with something to think about. Is the story a hoax or is it real?
robins speech is directed to the audience. in the speech he is speaking to the audience about the play and how he is claiming it was all a dream. in his speech he says how night and day are two very different things and how night is a world of fantasy and endless possibilities. it is strange how robin is the one telling this ending story because robin is a trickster and all tricksters lie. it is unclear if robin is telling the truth or not but this also makes it clear as to why shakespeare ended the play with robin. this great play of love and loss and fantasy is ended with a riddle that questions it all. Shakespeare wrote it as if countering his own play by making it seem like a dream and nothing more.
This speech, as the previous two authors have pointed out, is directed toward the audience. In this speech, there are multiple words such as, "snores," and "night," and even the word "dream" itself, that the reader understands that all the events that happened in this play were nothing but a dream. As I read this book/play, I forgot myself that all of these catastrophes happened in such a short amount of time. Robin is basically telling the audience/reader that there are all sorts of things that could happen to people during the night. It is interesting to read this speech, because it is almost as if he is using his trickery against you and saying, "haha, this was nothing but a dream! You foolish mortal!" Robin is not the main character in the story, but if you notice, a lot of books/plays/movies do not end with the main character(s). I think the significance of ending the play with Robin is that Robin is an interesting character in the book, and it's interesting to see someone who was being used throughout the book hbe some of the final lines in the play. This speech is important to end the play with so that the reader/viewer ca come hack to reality and remember that this was all fantasy.
Robin's speech is made for the audience. Is an epilogue to the play. ensuring all readers that this play was intended in good spirits and not meant to offend people. it is also discussing how day has finally come. saying we are out of slump of night. we have finally escaped hard times and you may leave unworried as in the play with Bottom. it gives the viewers now on edge a sense of relive that the have someone's word that outside no harm will come to them.
this is significant because without it a lot of the viewers would be on edge and overly cautions of even the slightest wimp of a forest. also because they don't want there own loves to be poisoned with the nectar and fall out of love with them. also to just wrap up the play. it is only right that the one who causes the problem solve it be ending the midsummer night.
I agree with Emmett and Ian: the monologue is spoken towards the audience. The speech is basically making up for the insane dream-like state in the play. It also seems to be an apology: Robin is quite the trickster. He was the main "puppeteer" of the tricks and magic within the play, and made many mistakes, causing many mishaps. He is appologizing to the audience and the characters in the play, by basically saying that he is being honest now, and he is smoothing out the bumps. By saying "Give me your hand, If we be friends." He is basically giving a hand of apology. By putting this at the end of the play, it sums everything up: it sumarizes all of the craziness that went on in the forrest. Also, by having Robin end the play, it shows that he does have a bit of responsability. Though he is a trickster, he does have the ability to close things up, and think of a good ending.
Robin is stating that all that which the audience has witnessed is but a dream. Though his actions caused the whole predicament to unfold, he entreats the audience to make amends and not to resent him. Though this speech at first glance seems just to add on to the crude humor of the play, it has a more profound layer. Robin maintains an equilibrium between chaos and order. Though he caused the lovers to blindly stumble in the wood, he has greatly strengthened their integrity. They now no longer are the bitterest of rivals they are the best of companions. Also, though the events in the wood were life changing he does not allow them to dwell on it, their recollections are muddle. So Robin is a personification of the workings of the world; Nothing can be gained without loss.
I think that the final speech is for the readers. In the end he basically says that he planned everything that had happened throughout the play. He also planned out how he was going to fix it. He said that he is responsible for all the problems that occured and is also responsible for fixing all of it. So what he is trying to say is without him in the story none of it would have humored us or just wouldnt have happened at all.The significance of Robin ending the play is to show the humor of the play. It's almost like Bottom and the rest of the cast from the play saying to each other that they should tell the women who are watching the play that there are no real lions so they would not be scared. Almost as if the story is either a "play in a play which is also in a play" or trying to say that so the people in the play would believe there is no such thing as a fantasy world.
Robin's final speech is directed toward the audience. Robin is talking about how everything the audience just witnessed wasn't really reality, it was a dream. He says that if he has offended anybody with this play, then they should not worry about it, for it was indeed a dream. The funny part is that Robin says that he is ‘honest puck’ and that of course they should believe him. Now we all know he is definitely not honest, so I think that this was Shakespeare’s way of ending it in a clever way. Robin tells the audience it was all a dream, but this is Robin talking and he is quite the mischievous one so the audience knows not to believe him. Obviously the people reading or watching this play knew/knows that it was only a play and not a dream or real life. It’s still an interesting way to end a play however, with Robin saying it was all a dream, because if you think about it you realize in the book he was trying to cover up the damage he has done by letting the humans find the fairies by saying it was a dream. I think the intent of the ending was to make the person who just saw it think to themselves ‘Well Puck said it was a dream, but he always lies, so… Is it really real?’ --
I agree with all the people who said that the speech was directed at the audience. Robin explains all of the confusion and states that it was all a dream. The significance of having Robin say the final monolouge about how confusing the "dream" was, which I found extremely hillarious, is that Robin is responsible for all the chaos and confusion throughout the play (I still do not believe that it was only one night), mostly in act three. Because of his reputation of being a preankster, and his small attention to detail, Robin always caused trouble, whether he wanted to or not.
In Robin's final speech in the play, he is talking to the audience. The speech is saying that the play was a dream, if you wish for it to be. He is basically saying, "If you liked the play then you may continue to do so but if you disliked it then it was all a dream." He is asking if the play offended you and if it did, make as if it was a dream that you can forget about. When he says Now to 'scrape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long, he is saying he would like to avoid the audience's hisses and he will make it better for them if they make believe that it was a dream. This is an important ending with the play because it relates to dream versus reality. At nighttime in the book, it is all like a dream and it is all fantasy but during the daylight it is back to reality. At the end of the play it is making a point that it doesn't really matter what time of day it is, you can always use your imagination and at anytime there could be something that may seem unrealistic. At the same time, he is apologizing to the audience if the play had offended them. An apology is always a good way to end something, too.
The final speech in the play, spoken by Robin, was directed to the audience. The final speech pertains to the magical qualities of the play and the contrast between night and day. Night is filled with trickery and magic, but in the day, things return to their natural state as if nothing had ever happened. Robin is assuring the audience that the play was a figment of their imagination; a mere dream. He is confessing his role in the predicament and explaining that it shouldn’t be taken into much consideration by anyone who might have been “offended”. Robin has caused much commotion in the wood, but has turned jealousy to love, hate to admiration, and foe to friend. Robin makes the audience see that his mischief caused many great things. This is why Robin’s speech is a very significant ending to the play. He, the cause of the nightmare in the wood has now turned everything into sheer paradise.
Robbin is speaking to his audience. His speech is saying his opinion on this whole conflict and how he thinks this was all a dream. He mentions that night and day are extremely different. Much more happens at night and during the day, everyone is normal. I dont know how to really explain it that well but more crazy thimgs happen at night and less crazy things happen during day.This is a very good way to end the scene because it is basically an overview of what happened
I agree that Robin is saying his speech to the audience reading the book. He is in a way wrapping up the story. This speech is a dream. I am not entirely sure if this is used metaphorically or literally because all of the events that took place were forgotten about in Act 4. Act 3 might as well have been a dream because the four lovers, Oberon and Titania, and Bottom are back to the way they were when the pay began. Bottom also thought that it was a dream because it might as well have been a dream if it is all forgotten about. I think that it us significant that Shakespeare ended the play with Robin because Robin basically caused the whole chaos and confusion in act 3. He knew everything that went on and he knows the truth about all of the events that took place.
In this speech, Robin is talking to the audience about the play. Though Robin may be talking to the audience only, Shakespeare is talking to all fellow humans of the world. By this epilogue, Robin is saying, to those who think “Of course this play isn’t real. It’s just a play, just a fantasy. This could never happen in reality.” He is questioning them. He’s saying that in truth, what is reality? How can you prove that this play isn’t real? How can you prove that life is real? He’s saying that life itself is but a midsummer night’s dream. The significance of ending with Robin is that he is the tour guide to the play. He talks to the audience more often than anyone in the play. He is making this speech to conclude every idea in the play that has not yet been gotten across.
Most plays end with an important character summing up the story in just a few lines. Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of them. Shakesphere chose Robin Goodfellow to be the last character to perform lines.”No more yielding but a dream,” are the only words that are necessary for the ending of this play because these words are describing the whole play. Puck’s (Robin) fifteen line ending to the audience was all about how the play was just a dream. I think Puck was the most perfect character to read the last lines because he created the dream. He caused the Athenian lovers to dream of love. If Puck had not put the nectar in the eyes of the humans, then the four Athenians would go through hatred, and there would be only two lovers at the end. I think to Shakesphere, the nighttime symbolizes dreams, and the daytime symbolizes reality. At the end of the play, reality had kicked in.
Robin's final speech is to the audience. The speech is basically Robin apologizing if any of the mischief he caused offended anybody. He tells the audience that he is sorry and if they did not enjoy the play they should just pretend it was a dream. I think the significance of this speech is its hidden meaning. I think Robin's speech is explaining that all the time that the lovers spent in the forest was a dream. Robin is apologizing for creating problems in the play. I also think Shakespeare used this speech to say that if anyone does not like the book that is fine. Shakespeare is saying that he is sorry they did not enjoy the book and he suggests that anyone who did not enjoy the play should simply pretend it was a dream. I think the fact that Robin gives this speech is significant because Robin was the trouble maker. Maybe Shakespeare viewed himself as creating trouble with the people who did enjoy his work? Who knows, but he used Robin to apologize and explain that if you don't like something just pretend it was a dream.
Robin is speaking towards the audience/ readers. The ending closed off with Robin’s speech to show that it is the end of the play/book and that everyone thought that this was like a dream, hence the “Midsummer Nights Dream” as the title. At the end, it was reality that struck them, not a dream. Even though Bottom thought it was a dream, doesn’t mean that everything else was. The significance of Robin ending the whole play with his speech was so that you know that the play has ended. Also, he clarifies that it was actually reality not a dream. He definitely is talking to the audience when he says, “Give me your hands (5.1. 454)” meaning applaud for the play. I agree with Kira, it does summarize wild things that happened that night and shared his confession towards all this mishap. -Brianna♥♥
In the final speech in the play, Robin is speaking to the audience. He is talking to the audience about how the play went and is wishing for their joy and applause. He claims that since they are friends, he will help them and they should clap for the play. He wraps up and talks about how the dream-like play has ended. This speech is significant because it ends off the play in a good tone. Robin particularly, ending the play is significant because throughout the book he is the one who is always there. He is the one who created the trouble and miss match of lovers. Puck has always been the mischievous one, in and out of the play. The way he ends it and the fact that he ends it represents that he has finished all his trouble making and he is done. That the dream he almost created with all its chaos is over. When puck asks for applause i think that it is because he likes what he created and finished. The very last lines when Puck says " Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends" is saying applaud for me since we are friends, and i will help and fix things. This is a significant way to end the play because Puck was the one always miss matching lovers and messing up then fixing things. So him ending the play and saying, "Okay, i screwed up a few times but in the end i fixed it and it just became a dream, so applaud me, and i'll try to fix and help u too."
In Robin's final speech, he is talking to the audience of the play and he is saying if you do not like the play don’t get too upset think of it as just a dream. Robin is some what apologizing to the people who may not have liked his play. He is also saying if you (the audience) forgive us (the actors) think of it as a dream and everything will be ok and maybe you will come back and see another play. Robin's speech also seems to end the play by saying good bye and clearing up any misunderstanding between the audience and actors.
Robins speech is directed toward the audience. He is basically saying that it was all a dream. He says ' If we shadows offended' meaning if you were offended by it, it was just a dream. He is trying to avoid the audience making a fuss about it, and it just saying don't worry it is a dream.
The Significance of Shakespeare ending the play with this speech is it brings up the idea of dreams again. In a whole a midsummer night's dream is basically about crazy things that occur and they could all seam like dreams. People falling in love with donkeys and people falling in love because of love potions. It's all very chaotic. Also Robin ending it adds to the idea of chaos because Robin is sort of a trickster and a lier. But he's showing sort of a responsibility by making sure everyone knew that " it was just a dream "
robins final speech is directed to the audience. this is the last line in the play so it is especially signifigant. this speech is stating how many magical and mystical events had take place in this book but he is kind of reassuring the audience that it was all a dream. like many of the characters in the book assumed. in the first line he refers to the immortal people in the book as shadows which symbolizes that they represent darkness and evil but he goes on to almost coddle the audience and reassure them that everything turned out okay at the end. similar things happen troughout the entire monologue. puck says something that the immortals have done wrong and them begins to comfort everyone by saying how well it worked out. i think it was especiallly signifigant that puck gave the final sppech because throughout the play we see him making a sport at other misery and confusion. he also tends to be the one who phisically starts commotion because whenever a potion is put on someone it is oberon who gives the command but usually puck who infects their eyes and puts a spell on them. he even makes repremands for himself at the end where he basically says either call me a liar and we can fight or lets be friends and everything will be better. i think that this was a great was to end the play because it's kind of the deal closer. it's saying that if we are friends then everything will work out and there will once again be total peace in the forest and in athens.
Robin's final speech is directed to the audience. In the speech, it's like he's having a conversation with the audience. He's saying that the play was all just a dream. You can tell this is true because he uses words like 'visions' and 'dream'.
I think the significance of ending the play with robin speaking this speech because Robin is one of the main characters and it kind of shows a different side of Robin. Throughout the book Robin's been known as being the trickster/ con man. I feel in this ending speech he's telling the audience that everything was a dream and he wants the audience to believe that he's being truthful. He then says "Give me your hands, if we be friends" which then the audience would respond if they liked it. This brings me back to the fact that robin might of been having a conversation with the audience.
Shakespeare tactfully terminates his play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, with a monologue by Puck, the production's mischievous troublemaker in which he reveals that he wishes no offense to anyone who observes the play. Puck is the character, who while not the most central, wreaks havoc upon the four lovers, and after contemplating what he has caused, repairs the chaos. Puck's actions render positively as Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius are to be happily wed. Nevertheless, Puck enjoys the turmoil he causes, wielding the flower's nectar as he pleases, finding the pandemonium that ensues amusing.
Puck suggests that if his actions displease an onlooker, they should make as if it was a dream. He wills the audience to forgive him for his fun, and to enjoy the play put forward for them.
It is ironic that Puck is the one who pleads for pardon, as he found joy in heartache he created. His proposal to think of the play as a dream is a curious one, as the whole play plays upon the fine line between reality and fantasy. Various occurrences seem unreal to us, i.e. a man with an ass head falling in love with the queen of fairies, the notion of a magical ointment which makes you fall in love with the first person you see etc. On the other hand, ideas presented in the play such as love, opposition to an individual, and hate are very much a part of quotidian life.
Shakespeare managed to weave a contorted story in which some fragments are real, and others are clearly fictional. Puck mentions the potential of believing the occurrences were dreams. It seems as though he is hinting towards the whole play being a dream, fabricated by one's vivid imagination.
Robin is addressing the audience in his final monologue. He explains to the audience that they must believe that they simply fell asleep in the theatre and dreamed all of the things they thought that they had seen in the play. He tells them that these were all visions brought on by sleep and no more than a dream. He tells them not to be upset by what they have just seen for it was merely their minds dreaming while they were asleep during the show. He is trying to make the audience believe this by stating that he is truthful, while after seeing the play everyone understands that he is the trouble and chaos maker in the show. By saying he is truthful he is playing yet another trick on the audience. If the show was a dream maybe Puck really is truthful? Or is Puck saying he is truthful just to mess with the 'foolish mortals' once more? The end leaves the audience thinking and questioning. It is important for Puck to end the show because he was truly the mastermind behind the confusion and insanity that occurred during that one night in the woods.
Robin is speaking to the audience. His speech is about the events that happened in the play and how in actuality they are all dreams. In the speech he looks at the difference between night and day and how at night you can do most things but they are mostly all fantasies or dreams because at night most people sleep. In the day when everyone is up things are more realistic. I think that there are two reasons of why it is significant that shakespeare ended the play with this speech. I strongly agree with emmett about ending the play with a trickster and also ending the play with a riddle. Also this is a romantic comedy which means the play kind of contradicts it self so i think that its because Shakespeare wanted to have an ironic and kind of funny why of ending the play -James
The last speech, by Robin, in my eyes was meant to be sort of an epilogue. In this speech Robin is talking to the audience. Puck says "if we but shadows but offended, think but this, all is mended" this clearly means if we offended anyone think that all is better now. I also think it was Shakespeare's dry humor that he decided to include have an epilogue type ending. In the play of Pyramus and Thisbe Bottom wanted to start with a prologue and end with an epilogue but was prevented from ending so, because the play was so bad, but still funny. That is why I think Shakespeare had Robin have that last dialect.
I agree with mostly everyone that stated that this speech was directed towards the audience. It is quite confusing though because i felt like robin, who was really an accomplice in the whole scandel, would be amused by the confusionm of the athenians. But yets, he was the one stating it was all a dream. Perhaps maybe to secure the secret of the fairy world. But other then that, robin does bring about the topic of two different worlds, so seperate, that the play couldnt have been based on something true. The significance of the play ending with robin monolgue is that he really concludes everything that has been happening o convince people that it was all just a dream. Its kind of like, he was trying to convince them that such outrageous things could never happen.
Robin is talking to the audience at the ending of the play. He is saying that the play was a dream and that they had fallen asleep and seen a vision. "That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear.." Robin also explains how night and day are very different from each other. Day is reality and night is fantasy and not real. At night that when things are dark and you can not see as well as you could during the day and that you have dreams at night; but during the day you can see clearly because there is sunlight. Robin is also the trickster and the tr5oublemaker in this play. he is the one that start the confusion between Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena. Because of this is the audience suppose to believe him or think that this is the ending of him being a trickster.He has seen the outcome of it and is telling people the truth about the play just being a dream.
In Robin’s speech at the end of the play, he is addressing every character in the book and all potential future audiences. His speech is a wrap-up of the entire play and also an apology to the audience. Robin (Puck) has been the main troublemaker or protagonist so he is ending the play by saying that he is an "honest Puck" and that he will make "amends" for any wrongdoing. However, he does not think there has been any wrongdoing, since everything that happened is, in a way, just a light hearted dream. Unlike Shakespeare's tragedies, this play has a flawless happy ending. The ending is almost so unreal that it should be regarded as a dream. Robin’s intervention has solved all of the problems by the end of the play. Of course, it was only his intervention that caused many of the problems in the first place. I believe this speech is counter to one of the speeches Robin made in the beginning about being a troublemaker. Now, the story has come all the way around and Puck has righted all of his wrongs or at least revealed that all the wrongs were just a dream.
in his final speach, puck seems to be embodying the prologue of the play put on. it is also a breaking of character, as puck should not be speaking to the audiance as a general rule of theater. the information expressed is rather confusing, as he seems to be trying to convince the audiance that they all were dreaming, rather than watching a play. this kind of confused me, as the play states that the reason behind the lovers realization that their night was not a dream, comes from the fact that everyone saw the same thing. I don't understand why the play would contredict itself. the reason is probably that puck is a trickster and wants a last laugh about "those foolish mortals."
Robin's speech is speaking out to the audience. The ending of the play was an unexpected twist to the story but could have been expected because through out the play Robin was in an out of the scenes. Especially in the most important scenes. All of the situations that came about was always caused by all of his coniving plots and spells he put on people. This began to give the reader a clue that this play was about the Robin and the things he would to people if he had that much freedom and times as he did. Knowing now that it was all a dream now gives the reader the thought about how different it could be if the play was a reality not a dream. - Kelsey
Puck is speaking to the audience. He says that you fell asleep during the play and that everything was a dream. The fact that he said it at the end of the play is almost like a wakeup call. He makes the adience doubt the play. So he makes them doubt love. Since the story is about love that ends good, and love doesn't always end well. And he says that he's not liar. In the book Puck is the "bad guy", he makes jokes about things that isn't funny and doesn't really care about what peole think about him and what he does. So it is doubteble (?) that what he says is true, but it can still be true. Hanna
This speech is directed to the audience of the play. I think Shakespeare ended with this speech because it kind of summarizes the whole play and it brings up the idea if this play was all a dream. Robin states that he is not lying and that all of this happened and that you should believe him even though all the tricks he pulls on people.
The speech by Robin is dedicated to those that are listening in the audience. This speech has to do with robin being sneaky and how he at the end, just as you have been satisfied, makes you wonder wether or not the whole thing was just a dream or some kind of figment of the imagination. The significance to this speech is the reason why I earlier decree Robin as sneaky. Because he has a trouble-making nature and it would not at all be surprising if this was just a hoax on the audience. But at the same time it makes you wonder if Shakespeare takes back all of the play and all of the statements and all of the underlying, carefully placed plot details so intricately laid in a careful manner for the reader.
I think that this is the best way to end the play because for one, Robin is the one who basically started the drama in the play. He was the one who added the spice to the story and it is just a way to end it. I think that its logical to "finish what you've started" and this was a great ending to the play. Two because it sort of summarized the whole scene. -Emma ♥
Robin's speech is directed towards the audience. The speech is an apology to the audience if the acting has offended them. The play was a dream, a vision, he bids the audience goodnight. Since Robin was the creator of chaos in this play, I think it makes sense that he is the one to give an apology/ending words.
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Robin's speech is dedicated to the audience. Readers of the script may forget that the script is preformed. The wording may confuse the reader of the script.
"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended--
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear," Robin says at the end of the play.
The whole play revolves around day and night and the senseless aspect of it all. During the day common sense returns while during the night the sanity is lost. Now the perfect character to tell the audience that it is a dream is a fictional character. No one is better than Puck because of his mischevious behavior. He also asks for the audience to believe he is honest. This can be seen as something that is unbelieveable because he is a mischevious character. This means that when he tells the audience that it is a dream they might not believe him. Then when he reveals he is telling the truth they may or may not believe in this speech. But, Robin asks that they clap for the actors and their problems will no longer be their. He also says he is a liar if he does not make this true.
As confusing as this is it can be summed up that a fictional character says the story is fictional and then says I will help you. This speech leaves the audience with something to think about. Is the story a hoax or is it real?
robins speech is directed to the audience. in the speech he is speaking to the audience about the play and how he is claiming it was all a dream. in his speech he says how night and day are two very different things and how night is a world of fantasy and endless possibilities. it is strange how robin is the one telling this ending story because robin is a trickster and all tricksters lie. it is unclear if robin is telling the truth or not but this also makes it clear as to why shakespeare ended the play with robin. this great play of love and loss and fantasy is ended with a riddle that questions it all. Shakespeare wrote it as if countering his own play by making it seem like a dream and nothing more.
This speech, as the previous two authors have pointed out, is directed toward the audience. In this speech, there are multiple words such as, "snores," and "night," and even the word "dream" itself, that the reader understands that all the events that happened in this play were nothing but a dream. As I read this book/play, I forgot myself that all of these catastrophes happened in such a short amount of time. Robin is basically telling the audience/reader that there are all sorts of things that could happen to people during the night. It is interesting to read this speech, because it is almost as if he is using his trickery against you and saying, "haha, this was nothing but a dream! You foolish mortal!" Robin is not the main character in the story, but if you notice, a lot of books/plays/movies do not end with the main character(s). I think the significance of ending the play with Robin is that Robin is an interesting character in the book, and it's interesting to see someone who was being used throughout the book hbe some of the final lines in the play. This speech is important to end the play with so that the reader/viewer ca come hack to reality and remember that this was all fantasy.
Robin's speech is made for the audience. Is an epilogue to the play. ensuring all readers that this play was intended in good spirits and not meant to offend people. it is also discussing how day has finally come. saying we are out of slump of night. we have finally escaped hard times and you may leave unworried as in the play with Bottom. it gives the viewers now on edge a sense of relive that the have someone's word that outside no harm will come to them.
this is significant because without it a lot of the viewers would be on edge and overly cautions of even the slightest wimp of a forest. also because they don't want there own loves to be poisoned with the nectar and fall out of love with them. also to just wrap up the play. it is only right that the one who causes the problem solve it be ending the midsummer night.
I agree with Emmett and Ian: the monologue is spoken towards the audience. The speech is basically making up for the insane dream-like state in the play. It also seems to be an apology: Robin is quite the trickster. He was the main "puppeteer" of the tricks and magic within the play, and made many mistakes, causing many mishaps. He is appologizing to the audience and the characters in the play, by basically saying that he is being honest now, and he is smoothing out the bumps. By saying "Give me your hand, If we be friends." He is basically giving a hand of apology. By putting this at the end of the play, it sums everything up: it sumarizes all of the craziness that went on in the forrest. Also, by having Robin end the play, it shows that he does have a bit of responsability. Though he is a trickster, he does have the ability to close things up, and think of a good ending.
Robin is stating that all that which the audience has witnessed is but a dream. Though
his actions caused the whole predicament to unfold, he entreats the audience to make amends and
not to resent him. Though this speech at first glance seems just to add on to the crude humor of the play, it has a more profound layer. Robin maintains an equilibrium between chaos and order. Though he caused the lovers to blindly stumble in the wood, he has greatly strengthened their integrity. They now no longer are the bitterest of rivals they are the best of companions. Also, though the events in the wood were life changing he does not allow them to dwell on it, their recollections are muddle. So Robin is a personification of the workings of the world; Nothing can be gained without loss.
I think that the final speech is for the readers. In the end he basically says that he planned everything that had happened throughout the play. He also planned out how he was going to fix it. He said that he is responsible for all the problems that occured and is also responsible for fixing all of it. So what he is trying to say is without him in the story none of it would have humored us or just wouldnt have happened at all.The significance of Robin ending the play is to show the humor of the play. It's almost like Bottom and the rest of the cast from the play saying to each other that they should tell the women who are watching the play that there are no real lions so they would not be scared. Almost as if the story is either a "play in a play which is also in a play" or trying to say that so the people in the play would believe there is no such thing as a fantasy world.
Robin's final speech is directed toward the audience. Robin is talking
about how everything the audience just witnessed wasn't really
reality, it was a dream. He says that if he has offended anybody with
this play, then they should not worry about it, for it was indeed a
dream. The funny part is that Robin says that he is ‘honest puck’ and
that of course they should believe him. Now we all know he is
definitely not honest, so I think that this was Shakespeare’s way of
ending it in a clever way. Robin tells the audience it was all a
dream, but this is Robin talking and he is quite the mischievous one
so the audience knows not to believe him. Obviously the people reading
or watching this play knew/knows that it was only a play and not a
dream or real life. It’s still an interesting way to end a play
however, with Robin saying it was all a dream, because if you think
about it you realize in the book he was trying to cover up the damage
he has done by letting the humans find the fairies by saying it was a
dream. I think the intent of the ending was to make the person who
just saw it think to themselves ‘Well Puck said it was a dream, but he
always lies, so… Is it really real?’
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I agree with all the people who said that the speech was directed at the audience. Robin explains all of the confusion and states that it was all a dream. The significance of having Robin say the final monolouge about how confusing the "dream" was, which I found extremely hillarious, is that Robin is responsible for all the chaos and confusion throughout the play (I still do not believe that it was only one night), mostly in act three. Because of his reputation of being a preankster, and his small attention to detail, Robin always caused trouble, whether he wanted to or not.
In Robin's final speech in the play, he is talking to the audience. The speech is saying that the play was a dream, if you wish for it to be. He is basically saying, "If you liked the play then you may continue to do so but if you disliked it then it was all a dream." He is asking if the play offended you and if it did, make as if it was a dream that you can forget about. When he says
Now to 'scrape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long,
he is saying he would like to avoid the audience's hisses and he will make it better for them if they make believe that it was a dream.
This is an important ending with the play because it relates to dream versus reality. At nighttime in the book, it is all like a dream and it is all fantasy but during the daylight it is back to reality. At the end of the play it is making a point that it doesn't really matter what time of day it is, you can always use your imagination and at anytime there could be something that may seem unrealistic. At the same time, he is apologizing to the audience if the play had offended them. An apology is always a good way to end something, too.
The final speech in the play, spoken by Robin, was directed to the audience. The final speech pertains to the magical qualities of the play and the contrast between night and day. Night is filled with trickery and magic, but in the day, things return to their natural state as if nothing had ever happened. Robin is assuring the audience that the play was a figment of their imagination; a mere dream. He is confessing his role in the predicament and explaining that it shouldn’t be taken into much consideration by anyone who might have been “offended”. Robin has caused much commotion in the wood, but has turned jealousy to love, hate to admiration, and foe to friend. Robin makes the audience see that his mischief caused many great things. This is why Robin’s speech is a very significant ending to the play. He, the cause of the nightmare in the wood has now turned everything into sheer paradise.
-Kai
Robbin is speaking to his audience. His speech is saying his opinion on this whole conflict and how he thinks this was all a dream. He mentions that night and day are extremely different. Much more happens at night and during the day, everyone is normal. I dont know how to really explain it that well but more crazy thimgs happen at night and less crazy things happen during day.This is a very good way to end the scene because it is basically an overview of what happened
I agree that Robin is saying his speech to the audience reading the book. He is in a way wrapping up the story. This speech is a dream. I am not entirely sure if this is used metaphorically or literally because all of the events that took place were forgotten about in Act 4. Act 3 might as well have been a dream because the four lovers, Oberon and Titania, and Bottom are back to the way they were when the pay began. Bottom also thought that it was a dream because it might as well have been a dream if it is all forgotten about. I think that it us significant that Shakespeare ended the play with Robin because Robin basically caused the whole chaos and confusion in act 3. He knew everything that went on and he knows the truth about all of the events that took place.
In this speech, Robin is talking to the audience about the play. Though Robin may be talking to the audience only, Shakespeare is talking to all fellow humans of the world. By this epilogue, Robin is saying, to those who think “Of course this play isn’t real. It’s just a play, just a fantasy. This could never happen in reality.” He is questioning them. He’s saying that in truth, what is reality? How can you prove that this play isn’t real? How can you prove that life is real? He’s saying that life itself is but a midsummer night’s dream. The significance of ending with Robin is that he is the tour guide to the play. He talks to the audience more often than anyone in the play. He is making this speech to conclude every idea in the play that has not yet been gotten across.
Most plays end with an important character summing up the story in just a few lines. Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of them. Shakesphere chose Robin Goodfellow to be the last character to perform lines.”No more yielding but a dream,” are the only words that are necessary for the ending of this play because these words are describing the whole play.
Puck’s (Robin) fifteen line ending to the audience was all about how the play was just a dream. I think Puck was the most perfect character to read the last lines because he created the dream. He caused the Athenian lovers to dream of love. If Puck had not put the nectar in the eyes of the humans, then the four Athenians would go through hatred, and there would be only two lovers at the end. I think to Shakesphere, the nighttime symbolizes dreams, and the daytime symbolizes reality. At the end of the play, reality had kicked in.
Robin's final speech is to the audience. The speech is basically Robin apologizing if any of the mischief he caused offended anybody. He tells the audience that he is sorry and if they did not enjoy the play they should just pretend it was a dream. I think the significance of this speech is its hidden meaning. I think Robin's speech is explaining that all the time that the lovers spent in the forest was a dream. Robin is apologizing for creating problems in the play. I also think Shakespeare used this speech to say that if anyone does not like the book that is fine. Shakespeare is saying that he is sorry they did not enjoy the book and he suggests that anyone who did not enjoy the play should simply pretend it was a dream. I think the fact that Robin gives this speech is significant because Robin was the trouble maker. Maybe Shakespeare viewed himself as creating trouble with the people who did enjoy his work? Who knows, but he used Robin to apologize and explain that if you don't like something just pretend it was a dream.
Robin is speaking towards the audience/ readers. The ending closed off with Robin’s speech to show that it is the end of the play/book and that everyone thought that this was like a dream, hence the “Midsummer Nights Dream” as the title. At the end, it was reality that struck them, not a dream. Even though Bottom thought it was a dream, doesn’t mean that everything else was. The significance of Robin ending the whole play with his speech was so that you know that the play has ended. Also, he clarifies that it was actually reality not a dream. He definitely is talking to the audience when he says, “Give me your hands (5.1. 454)” meaning applaud for the play. I agree with Kira, it does summarize wild things that happened that night and shared his confession towards all this mishap.
-Brianna♥♥
In the final speech in the play, Robin is speaking to the audience. He is talking to the audience about how the play went and is wishing for their joy and applause. He claims that since they are friends, he will help them and they should clap for the play. He wraps up and talks about how the dream-like play has ended. This speech is significant because it ends off the play in a good tone. Robin particularly, ending the play is significant because throughout the book he is the one who is always there. He is the one who created the trouble and miss match of lovers. Puck has always been the mischievous one, in and out of the play. The way he ends it and the fact that he ends it represents that he has finished all his trouble making and he is done. That the dream he almost created with all its chaos is over. When puck asks for applause i think that it is because he likes what he created and finished. The very last lines when Puck says " Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends" is saying applaud for me since we are friends, and i will help and fix things. This is a significant way to end the play because Puck was the one always miss matching lovers and messing up then fixing things. So him ending the play and saying, "Okay, i screwed up a few times but in the end i fixed it and it just became a dream, so applaud me, and i'll try to fix and help u too."
In Robin's final speech, he is talking to the audience of the play and he is saying if you do not like the play don’t get too upset think of it as just a dream. Robin is some what apologizing to the people who may not have liked his play. He is also saying if you (the audience) forgive us (the actors) think of it as a dream and everything will be ok and maybe you will come back and see another play. Robin's speech also seems to end the play by saying good bye and clearing up any misunderstanding between the audience and actors.
Robins speech is directed toward the audience. He is basically saying that it was all a dream. He says ' If we shadows offended' meaning if you were offended by it, it was just a dream. He is trying to avoid the audience making a fuss about it, and it just saying don't worry it is a dream.
The Significance of Shakespeare ending the play with this speech is it brings up the idea of dreams again. In a whole a midsummer night's dream is basically about crazy things that occur and they could all seam like dreams. People falling in love with donkeys and people falling in love because of love potions. It's all very chaotic. Also Robin ending it adds to the idea of chaos because Robin is sort of a trickster and a lier. But he's showing sort of a responsibility by making sure everyone knew that " it was just a dream "
robins final speech is directed to the audience. this is the last line in the play so it is especially signifigant. this speech is stating how many magical and mystical events had take place in this book but he is kind of reassuring the audience that it was all a dream. like many of the characters in the book assumed. in the first line he refers to the immortal people in the book as shadows which symbolizes that they represent darkness and evil but he goes on to almost coddle the audience and reassure them that everything turned out okay at the end. similar things happen troughout the entire monologue. puck says something that the immortals have done wrong and them begins to comfort everyone by saying how well it worked out. i think it was especiallly signifigant that puck gave the final sppech because throughout the play we see him making a sport at other misery and confusion. he also tends to be the one who phisically starts commotion because whenever a potion is put on someone it is oberon who gives the command but usually puck who infects their eyes and puts a spell on them. he even makes repremands for himself at the end where he basically says either call me a liar and we can fight or lets be friends and everything will be better. i think that this was a great was to end the play because it's kind of the deal closer. it's saying that if we are friends then everything will work out and there will once again be total peace in the forest and in athens.
Robin's final speech is directed to the audience. In the speech, it's like he's having a conversation with the audience. He's saying that the play was all just a dream. You can tell this is true because he uses words like 'visions' and 'dream'.
I think the significance of ending the play with robin speaking this speech because Robin is one of the main characters and it kind of shows a different side of Robin. Throughout the book Robin's been known as being the trickster/ con man. I feel in this ending speech he's telling the audience that everything was a dream and he wants the audience to believe that he's being truthful. He then says "Give me your hands, if we be friends" which then the audience would respond if they liked it. This brings me back to the fact that robin might of been having a conversation with the audience.
Shakespeare tactfully terminates his play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, with a monologue by Puck, the production's mischievous troublemaker in which he reveals that he wishes no offense to anyone who observes the play. Puck is the character, who while not the most central, wreaks havoc upon the four lovers, and after contemplating what he has caused, repairs the chaos. Puck's actions render positively as Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius are to be happily wed. Nevertheless, Puck enjoys the turmoil he causes, wielding the flower's nectar as he pleases, finding the pandemonium that ensues amusing.
Puck suggests that if his actions displease an onlooker, they should make as if it was a dream. He wills the audience to forgive him for his fun, and to enjoy the play put forward for them.
It is ironic that Puck is the one who pleads for pardon, as he found joy in heartache he created. His proposal to think of the play as a dream is a curious one, as the whole play plays upon the fine line between reality and fantasy. Various occurrences seem unreal to us, i.e. a man with an ass head falling in love with the queen of fairies, the notion of a magical ointment which makes you fall in love with the first person you see etc. On the other hand, ideas presented in the play such as love, opposition to an individual, and hate are very much a part of quotidian life.
Shakespeare managed to weave a contorted story in which some fragments are real, and others are clearly fictional. Puck mentions the potential of believing the occurrences were dreams. It seems as though he is hinting towards the whole play being a dream, fabricated by one's vivid imagination.
Robin is addressing the audience in his final monologue. He explains to the audience that they must believe that they simply fell asleep in the theatre and dreamed all of the things they thought that they had seen in the play. He tells them that these were all visions brought on by sleep and no more than a dream. He tells them not to be upset by what they have just seen for it was merely their minds dreaming while they were asleep during the show. He is trying to make the audience believe this by stating that he is truthful, while after seeing the play everyone understands that he is the trouble and chaos maker in the show. By saying he is truthful he is playing yet another trick on the audience. If the show was a dream maybe Puck really is truthful? Or is Puck saying he is truthful just to mess with the 'foolish mortals' once more? The end leaves the audience thinking and questioning. It is important for Puck to end the show because he was truly the mastermind behind the confusion and insanity that occurred during that one night in the woods.
Robin is speaking to the audience. His speech is about the events that happened in the play and how in actuality they are all dreams. In the speech he looks at the difference between night and day and how at night you can do most things but they are mostly all fantasies or dreams because at night most people sleep. In the day when everyone is up things are more realistic. I think that there are two reasons of why it is significant that shakespeare ended the play with this speech. I strongly agree with emmett about ending the play with a trickster and also ending the play with a riddle. Also this is a romantic comedy which means the play kind of contradicts it self so i think that its because Shakespeare wanted to have an ironic and kind of funny why of ending the play
-James
The last speech, by Robin, in my eyes was meant to be sort of an epilogue. In this speech Robin is talking to the audience. Puck says "if we but shadows but offended, think but this, all is mended" this clearly means if we offended anyone think that all is better now. I also think it was Shakespeare's dry humor that he decided to include have an epilogue type ending. In the play of Pyramus and Thisbe Bottom wanted to start with a prologue and end with an epilogue but was prevented from ending so, because the play was so bad, but still funny. That is why I think Shakespeare had Robin have that last dialect.
I agree with mostly everyone that stated that this speech was directed towards the audience. It is quite confusing though because i felt like robin, who was really an accomplice in the whole scandel, would be amused by the confusionm of the athenians. But yets, he was the one stating it was all a dream. Perhaps maybe to secure the secret of the fairy world. But other then that, robin does bring about the topic of two different worlds, so seperate, that the play couldnt have been based on something true. The significance of the play ending with robin monolgue is that he really concludes everything that has been happening o convince people that it was all just a dream. Its kind of like, he was trying to convince them that such outrageous things could never happen.
Robin is talking to the audience at the ending of the play. He is saying that the play was a dream and that they had fallen asleep and seen a vision. "That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear.." Robin also explains how night and day are very different from each other. Day is reality and night is fantasy and not real. At night that when things are dark and you can not see as well as you could during the day and that you have dreams at night; but during the day you can see clearly because there is sunlight. Robin is also the trickster and the tr5oublemaker in this play. he is the one that start the confusion between Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena. Because of this is the audience suppose to believe him or think that this is the ending of him being a trickster.He has seen the outcome of it and is telling people the truth about the play just being a dream.
In Robin’s speech at the end of the play, he is addressing every character in the book and all potential future audiences. His speech is a wrap-up of the entire play and also an apology to the audience. Robin (Puck) has been the main troublemaker or protagonist so he is ending the play by saying that he is an "honest Puck" and that he will make "amends" for any wrongdoing. However, he does not think there has been any wrongdoing, since everything that happened is, in a way, just a light hearted dream. Unlike Shakespeare's tragedies, this play has a flawless happy ending. The ending is almost so unreal that it should be regarded as a dream. Robin’s intervention has solved all of the problems by the end of the play. Of course, it was only his intervention that caused many of the problems in the first place. I believe this speech is counter to one of the speeches Robin made in the beginning about being a troublemaker. Now, the story has come all the way around and Puck has righted all of his wrongs or at least revealed that all the wrongs were just a dream.
in his final speach, puck seems to be embodying the prologue of the play put on. it is also a breaking of character, as puck should not be speaking to the audiance as a general rule of theater. the information expressed is rather confusing, as he seems to be trying to convince the audiance that they all were dreaming, rather than watching a play. this kind of confused me, as the play states that the reason behind the lovers realization that their night was not a dream, comes from the fact that everyone saw the same thing. I don't understand why the play would contredict itself. the reason is probably that puck is a trickster and wants a last laugh about "those foolish mortals."
Robin's speech is speaking out to the audience. The ending of the play was an unexpected twist to the story but could have been expected because through out the play Robin was in an out of the scenes. Especially in the most important scenes. All of the situations that came about was always caused by all of his coniving plots and spells he put on people. This began to give the reader a clue that this play was about the Robin and the things he would to people if he had that much freedom and times as he did. Knowing now that it was all a dream now gives the reader the thought about how different it could be if the play was a reality not a dream.
- Kelsey
Puck is speaking to the audience. He says that you fell asleep during the play and that everything was a dream. The fact that he said it at the end of the play is almost like a wakeup call. He makes the adience doubt the play. So he makes them doubt love. Since the story is about love that ends good, and love doesn't always end well. And he says that he's not liar. In the book Puck is the "bad guy", he makes jokes about things that isn't funny and doesn't really care about what peole think about him and what he does. So it is doubteble (?) that what he says is true, but it can still be true.
Hanna
This speech is directed to the audience of the play. I think Shakespeare ended with this speech because it kind of summarizes the whole play and it brings up the idea if this play was all a dream. Robin states that he is not lying and that all of this happened and that you should believe him even though all the tricks he pulls on people.
The speech by Robin is dedicated to those that are listening in the audience. This speech has to do with robin being sneaky and how he at the end, just as you have been satisfied, makes you wonder wether or not the whole thing was just a dream or some kind of figment of the imagination. The significance to this speech is the reason why I earlier decree Robin as sneaky. Because he has a trouble-making nature and it would not at all be surprising if this was just a hoax on the audience. But at the same time it makes you wonder if Shakespeare takes back all of the play and all of the statements and all of the underlying, carefully placed plot details so intricately laid in a careful manner for the reader.
Pablo
I think that this is the best way to end the play because for one, Robin is the one who basically started the drama in the play. He was the one who added the spice to the story and it is just a way to end it. I think that its logical to "finish what you've started" and this was a great ending to the play. Two because it sort of summarized the whole scene.
-Emma ♥
Robin's speech is directed towards the audience. The speech is an apology to the audience if the acting has offended them. The play was a dream, a vision, he bids the audience goodnight. Since Robin was the creator of chaos in this play, I think it makes sense that he is the one to give an apology/ending words.
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