OMNI GYAN

A HIGH DIVE Q. Why had the attendance of the circus been falling off? Ans: The regular decline in attendance became a matter of concern for the circus manager. There were several significant reasons for this. The jokes of the clowns fell flat as those did not produce much laughter and were out of fashion. The jokes raised laughter before 1939. Moreover, the audience seemed to be more sophisticated and had seen or heard those before. So, the audience would come and kept munching sweets or sucking ices, sometimes talking to each other without paying any attention to the show. Q. What arrangements were made before the man could perform the act? Ans: The circus manager arranged the ‘Mermaid’s tank’ to see the man perform the dangerous act. The men placed the tank into position, a few feet from the pole. Then a hosepipe was fastened to a tap and soon the sound of water was swishing and gargling in the tank. The man was also fixed with a bathing suit and was shown the dressing room...

  ACT – IV   1.      What does Titania tell Oberon on waking up after he has applied the antidote on her eyelids? Ans: After her dancing and revelry, Titania fell asleep by the stream bank. Oberon crept up on her and squeezed the flower’s juice onto her eyelids, chanting a spell, so that Titania would fall in love with the first creature she saw upon waking. Oberon seeing Titania with her infatuation for the donkey, now decided to reverse the charm of the love.-juice. Oberon said that he saw Titania earlier in the woods and taunted her about her love for the ass-headed Bottom. He asked her for the Indian child, promising to undo the spell if she would yield him, to which she consented. Satisfied, Oberon bent over the sleeping Titania and spoke the charm to undo the love potion. She told Oberon that she had visions and had been dreaming about loving a donkey. Titania woke and was amazed to find that she was sleeping with the donkey-like Bottom. Sh...