Literacy Blog #6

Today's blog we are supposed to pick the book cover we think is this most effective for the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. I chose this book cover because I thought that one of the most occuring things to happen in the play was the characters falling asleep in the forest. I also thought it was one of the most important things that happened, because without any of the characters falling asleep in the forest, Puck wouldn't have been able to put the love potion from the flower on their eyes, and they wouldn't have fallen in love with other people, and that is the part of the novel that makes everything intersting. The potion from the flower seemed to be one of the most important parts of the novel. I thought the cover was really effective because I thought the forest in the background looked very magical, and fit the theme of the setting in the forest. I also recognized the fairies in the forest, but I couldn't tell who the person sleeping was. I think the person sleeping is supposed to be Titania, because she is surrounded by a lot of fairies. Another reason I thought this book cover was really effective, was because on the cover of the book, it shows fairies, and I think it is showing the scene in the book where Titania is falling asleep, and it looks like the scene where they are singing her to sleep; "Sing me now asleep ; Then to your offices and let me rest." (II. ii 7-8). Another reason I think it's Titania is because in the book she mentions that she is sleeping on flowers when she is woken up by Bottom singing; "What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?" (III. i 118-119) and on the cover she is sleeping on flowers. That is why I think this is the most effective cover.