This task was to choose a scene in the play, state where it is in the play, outline briefly what happens and then explain why you think it is important. The scene I have chosen is Act five, Scene 1 from page 108, at the point of the "prologue". This is a point near the end of the play in which the mechanicals (common folk/workmen) Peter Quince, Mister Snug, Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Tom Snout and …
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…a complicated and difficult thing to understand. In the mechanicals play, Pyramus and Thisby, the wall separates their love just as Puck and Egeus separate Hermia and Lysanders. Also, Hermia fears that she has lost Lysanders love just as Pyramus fears the lion has killed and lost Thisbys love. I hope that the above reasons have shown that Act 5, Scene 1 is a very important scene in the play and that this has been shown clearly.