Mitchell Ballesteros

ENG3U1 — Chaos and Confusion

“Now you see it… Image Organizer”

Image Cluster Chosen: Nature Imagery

Lines in 3.2 Picture Appeals to Senses: Creates this

Emotional
Response:

1 “When they him -This line compares -Sight -The lines would
spy, As wild geese the chaos and evoke an emotional
that the creeping confusion caused by response of laughter
fowler eye, Robin’s trick to a from the audience
Or russet-pated group of geese because of the
choughs, many in scattering and comical description
sort, cawing at the sound of the situation.
Rising and cawing
of a loud gunshot.
at the gun’s
report…”
(Robin to Titiana)

2 “I had rather give his -This line describes -Sight -The emotional
carcass to my the gruesome response that this
hounds.” intents of a line would evoke is
(Demetruis to character of feeding disgust and disdain
Hermia) someone’s corpse to towards Demetruis
their dogs. because it
characterizes him as
a sick and cruel man.
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Lines in 3.2 Picture Appeals to Senses: Creates this

Emotional
Response:

3 “Flower of this -The line itself is -Sight -The emotional

purple dye, what Oberon chants response this evokes
Hit with Cupid’s as he puts from the audience is
archery, Demetrius under a fascination.
Sink in apple of his spell. It depicts the
eye. picture of him using
When his love he a purple flower to
doth espy, put the poor soul in
Let her shine as a trance. It also
gloriously compares the shine
As the Venus of the of Venus to the
sky. beauty of
When thou wakest, Demetrius’ lover.
if she be by,
Beg of her for
remedy.”
(Robin while casting
another spell.)

4 “To what, my love, -The line paints -Sight -The emotional

shall I compare thine picture of how response this may
eyne? beautiful Helena is evoke is that of
Crystal is muddy. by comparing: her fascination and
Oh, how ripe in eyes to crystal; her becoming
show lips to ripe cherries; awestruck. It may
Thy lips, those and her hands to the also warrant the
kissing cherries, white snow on a emotional response
tempting grow! mountaintop. of love. This is
That pure congealèd Demetrius, the because of how the
white, high Taurus' speaker, says that lines paint Helena as
snow, Helena’s eyes make an extremely
Fanned with the crystals look muddy; beautiful woman.
eastern wind, turns Her lips are as One could be
to a crow tempting as a pair of extremely
When thou hold’st cherries; and that fascinated and
up thy hand. Oh, let her colour of her awestruck by their
me kiss hands make the imagination of what
This princess of pure snow on Helena would look
white, this seal of mountaintops as like with the given
bliss!” dark as a crow’s description. They
(Demetrius to wing. She must be could even
Helena) one beautiful girl. potentially fall in
love at the thought
of someone that
beautiful.
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Lines in 3.2 Picture Appeals to Senses: Creates this

Emotional
Response:

5 “Dark night, that -The line suggests -Sight -In the context of
from the eye his that the forest they -Sound the line, it would
function takes, are in is extremely evoke an emotional
The ear more quick dark which makes response of feeling
of apprehension seeing in it sympathy to
makes. extremely difficult. Hermia’s feelings
Wherein it doth It also suggests that towards Lysander.
impair the seeing although it’s harder This response is
sense, to see in the dark, warranted because
It pays the hearing the forest is the lines show that
double extremely quiet even though Hermia
recompense.Thou during that time and could not see
art not by mine eye, makes hearing Lysander, she knew
Lysander, found. things easier. that it was him
Mine ear, I thank it, through the sound
brought me to thy of his voice. The
sound audience can
But why unkindly interpret that as
didst thou leave me love.
so?
(Hermia to
Lysander)

6 “Lysander’s love, -It is another set of -Sight -It again evokes the
that would not let lines that convey feeling of
him bide, how beautiful fascination towards
Fair Helena, who Helena is. This time, the beauty of
more engilds the it compares her Helena. If Lysander
night beauty to the stars is describing her as
Than all yon fiery in the sky and how someone that
oes and eyes of Helena’s beauty beautiful, wouldn’t
light.” outshines them all. you intrigue you as
(Lysander to well?
Hermia)
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Lines in 3.2 Picture Appeals to Senses: Creates this

Emotional
Response:

7 “Hang off, thou cat, -It describes Hermia -Sight -It evokes an
thou burr! Vile thing, as someone clingy -Touch emotional response
let loose like a cat to a pole of pity to Hermia. In
Or I will shake thee and makes him as the context of the
from me like a uncomfortable as a play, Lysander loved
serpent.” thorn poking his Hermia. As he
(Lysander to skin. It paints the describes her as a
Hermia) picture of how much thorn, a cat, and a
Lysander dislikes serpent
Hermia. It also simultaneously. One
explains how can only feel dirty
violently Lysander towards Hermia and
will shake Hermia a slight disdain for
off if she doesn’t let Lysander’s words.
go of him.

8 “Get you gone, you -It describes how -Sight -It again evokes the
dwarf, short and stubby emotional response
You minimus of Hermia’s stature is of feeling pitiful to
hindering knotgrass by comparing her to Hermia and anger
made,You bead, you a dwarf. towards Lysander.
acorn!” Lysander continues
to insult and
humiliate Hermia by
calling her a dwarf, a
weed, scrap and
somewhat
confusingly, an
acorn.

9 “Never so weary, -The lines paint a -Touch -The audience’s

never so in woe, picture of how emotional response
Bedabbled with the exhausted and how to this would be
dew and torn with much Hermia has feeling absolute pity
briers, suffered out in the and empathy
I can no further forest. She is towards Hermia.
crawl, no further covered by dew and After her
go.” is hurt by the thorns interactions with
(Hermia to herself) on the ground. Lysander, and
couple that with
how exhausted,
cold, and injured she
is, one can only pity
her in being in such
a horrible position.
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The overall effect of these repeated images in this scene on the audience is to allow them to
sympathize, connect, and understand the motivations, thoughts and actions of the characters. It allows
the audience to, for example, imagine how truly beautiful Helena is by comparing the abstract of her
beauty to something tangible like how her eyes make crystals seem muddy or how her beauty
outshines stars. It puts an emphasis on the important aspects of the play and allows the audience to
understand how truly important they are. It exaggerates and better explains how, for example, short
Hermia is by comparing her to a dwarf. These image clusters form a more tangible explanation for the
audience so that they may be able to better enjoy the scene, plot and characters of the “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream” as they understand it more clearly.