20 points answer the following questions below: the midsummer night dream what two themes are highlighted in act ii? how does the tone change from act i to act ii? how can we determine the tone of a play while reading it? what might the fairies and their use of magic be symbolic of in the play?

Themes: love, Art and Culture, Fooliness, and Magic.

Tone: This play  is primarily a humorous one, but it also presents a greater variety of tones. The opening scene, for instance, begins with a conflict that has very serious stakes. Theseus forces Hermia to choose between an unwanted marriage with Demetrius, and a life as a nun or to die if she rejects that marriage, the audience may get confused  if they’re watching a tragedy rather than a comedy. Hermia isn’t the only character faced with a difficult love situation, there are many others through the whole play.

Tone of a play: The tone of the article, essay, story, poem, novel, screenplay, or any other written work can be described in many ways. The author's tone can be witty, dreary, warm, playful, outraged, neutral, polished, wistful, reserved, and on and so on. We can determine the tone of the story by many ways:

1. Reading the introductory information.

2. To pay attention to word choice.

3. Go With Your Gut. To trust your own feelings about what you perceive in the story.

The use of magic in the play  who attend to Queen Titania represent Shakespeare's interpretation of what fairy folk might be. He made his fairies, including Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed, more believable.

Explanation:

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.