Act V Quotes

1. "His speech was like a tangled chain: / Nothing impaired, but all disordered." -Theseus of Peter Quince (Scene 1, lines 130-131)
This quote is significant because it shows the reader/audience what they royals and well-offs think of the working class of rude mechanicals. They do not even think of them as worthy or level, they think of them as mixed up and unsure of themselves, but maybe the royals are just too cocky for their own good.

2. "I am sent with broom before, / To sweep the dust behind the door." -Puck (Scene 1, lines 384-385)
This quote is significant because as a reader or member of the audience, we find out one more detail of Puck's duty to Oberon and the royal fairies. He is the one that always cleans up the messes made by the immortals and keeps the messes safely hidden from the mortals, so that they will never suspect a thing to be different than as they know it.