Image Cluster: Sight Act 3, Scene 2

Image Cluster Chosen: Sight

	Lines in 3.2.	Picture	Appeals to Senses	Creates Emotional Response
1	My mistress with a monster is in love. .. So, at his sight, away his fellows fly”… Titania waked and straightway loved an ass”	Donkey creature that Titania has fallen in love with	Sight	Audience is scared of the monster and for Titania; this shows the cruelty of Oberon and Puck’s plan
2	So should the murder’d look, and so should I,/ Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:/ Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,/ As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.	Hermia does not look upset or distraught very Lysander’s death. She looks happy.	Sight	Audience wonders if Hermia really believes Lysander is dead because if she did, she would be struck with grief. Maybe she is just taking her frustration out on Demetrius.
3	O brave touch!            / Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?/ An adder did it; for with doubler tongue/Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.	Poisonous snake then bit Lysander and killed him	Sight/Touch	Shows how mad Hermia is; the doubler tongue meaning Demetrius may be saying two things at the same time and perhaps lying.
4	And Helena of Athens look thou find:/All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer,/With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear: 3. 2. 97-8	Helena is pale and unhappy	Sight/Touch	Helena’s broken heart has taken her over so now she looks sick, lonely and pale. The colour has drained from her face due to sadness
5	Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show/Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!/That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow / Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow/When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss/This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss! 3. 2. 140-4	Eyes are clearer than crystals, lips as red as cherries, fair, white porcelain skin.	Sight/Touch	Demetrius tells Helena how beautiful she is; shows how the magical flower juice is really working. Before, Demetrius hated her; his transformation has been completely turned around
6	We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,/ Have with our needles created both one flower,/Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,/Both warbling of one song, both in one key,/As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,/Had been incorporate. So we grow together,/Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,/But yet an union in partition;/Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;/So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;/Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,/Due but to one and crowned with one crest 3. 2. 205-14	Hermia and Helena are like two peas in a pod. Create one friendship together, side by side, singing together, bound together like a double cherry, two bodies one heart.	Sight/Touch	Audience understands the strong friendship between Helena and Hermia. They are sister; as if they were attached to one another and now that bond is being torn apart.
7	Ay, do, persever, counterfeit sad looks,/             Make mouths upon me when I turn my back;/Wink each at other; hold the sweet jest up:/ This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled 3. 2. 240-242	Lysander, Demetrius, and Hermia all doing things behind Helena’s back, like laughing at her.	Sight	Helena continues to think the three of them are in on this joke together. Audience knows that they aren’t but the accusation of being traitors is intense
8	Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,/ Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent! 3. 2. 265-6	Hermia is latching onto Lysander like a thorn, he wants to shake her off like snake	Sight/Touch	Lysander tells Hermia she is like a thorn, which is painful and annoying, he wants her gone completely and doesn’t hesitate to call her a snake. This shows more of Lysander’s transformation due to the flower juice. The audience wonders how this situation will be resolved.
9	Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game./Now I perceive that she hath made compare/Between our statures; she hath urged her height;/And with her personage, her tall personage,/Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him./And are you grown so high in his esteem;/  Because I am so dwarfish and so low? 3. 2. 298-304	Hermia is apparently quite short while Helena is talll	Sight	The jealousy of Hermia toward Helena is obvious here, she thinks that Helena made Lysander love her because she’s tall. Hermia is livid

The overall effect of these repeated images in this scene on the audience is:

The audience is able to visualize the scene through their descriptions. The anger, murder, jealousy, and emotions are all described well and by using metaphors, we can make connections. Once the reader visualizes the scene, it is easier to understand and the director can arrange stage business.