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 * William Shakespear's __A Midsummer Night's Dream__: Act I, Scenes I & II**

I am Hermia, Egeu's daughter. My father Egeus is a nobleman in Theseus' court and he asked him to pass judgement on me because I refuse to marry Demetrius be I can't take this anymore! Why am I not allowed to wed the man I love, but I am supposed to marry the one who has bewitched my beloved friend Helena. If I don't get married with that Demetrius, I can only do two things. First, if I do not accept to marry him, I will have to endure the livery of a nun, for aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, to live a barren sister all my life, chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. If I decline to go into a cloister, that day I will have to prepare to die, for disobedience to my father's will.
 * Scene I: (Summary from Hermia's point of view)**

I only have one thing left to do. I am going to steal forth my father´s house tomorrow night, and in the wood, a league without the town, I will meet Lysander to scape and marry at her widow aunt's house. I hope everything goes well and I can finally meet my destiny, which is to marry my love Lysander.....

I am Nick Bottom, the weaver. Me and other workmen are preparing a play for a very important event, but I have a really uncomfortable problem, nobody listens to me! Not even that carpenter of the Peter Quince. Nobody knows that I can speak with such a monstrous little voice to play Thisbe, or that I can roar as a lion so well that even the duke would say "let him roar again, let him roar again." The play __The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe__ is to be played at the duke and the duchess wedding day at night. I want to be the principal character, the star of the play, and I want to do it all because all I know is, nobody is even as good as I am! Let us wait and see, if somebody could ever see what I am and why am I worth a lot!
 * Scene II: (Summary from Bottom's point of view)**

And in the woods we will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Take pains, be perfect: adieu!

media type="youtube" key="tHEp1bvGj5A?fs=1" height="385" width="480" This is a very short clip of Act I of Shakespear's Midsummer Night's Dream. I think the actors here are acting very well and through them I can notice the mood of the original characters of the play! Enjoy the video! []