We see word-play on the word "fair" in the short exchange between Hermia and Helena in Act I Scene I of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.Try your hand at some word-play. You can just go at it on the page if you would like. Or, think of a scene, situation, or circumstance. Then, think of a few words you might associate with that scene, situation, or circumstance and see if you can’t situate some of the scene’s circumstances in a circumstance or situation that’s not been seen before.

From what I read in your assignment, you are being asked to do some creative writing in which you use wordplay. It seems like the instructions give you lots of freedom in terms of form: whether you write in prose or in lines like a play, the instructor basically wants you to experiment with using the same word in multiple forms/situations. It would be best to choose a word that has a few possible meanings, depending on context and part of speech. To help you figure out how to do this, let's look more closely at the lines from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In these lines in the opening scene of the play, Hermia begins by addressing Helena as "fair Helena." Here, Hermia is referring to Helena's beauty. Today, we use "fair" to mean "just" or "right," and we also use it to refer to something of a light color (fair-skinned, fair hair, etc.). In Shakespeare's time, though, "fair" typically meant "beautiful." Helena responds with a sort of denial and uses the word "fair" four times in the space of two lines:

Call you me “fair”? That “fair” again unsay.
Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!

First, she questions Hermia by asking if Hermia is really calling her (Helena) fair. Helena wonders if Hermia is serious and genuine in her praise; this is a bit of foreshadowing, as well, since Helena will feel she is being duped later when the fairy dust makes Demetrius fall in love with her in the forest.
The second instance of "fair" is in quotes and refers to the compliment in general, or the usage of the word "fair." Helena is telling Hermia to take her compliment back. We then learn that the reason she is saying this is because Demetrius loves Hermia, even though Helena loves him. Therefore, Demetrius thinks Hermia is more fair. In this example, fair is treated as a possession, "your fair," something that belongs to Hermia. Again, it could mean her beauty, or her version of fairness. He prefers whatever form of "fair" Hermia is to whatever "fair" Hermia sees in Helena. Finally, Helena laments, "O happy fair!" to express her envy for Hermia's version of beauty or fairness. The underlying implication of this engages another common meaning of fair: "just" or "right." Helena feels it is unfair that Demetrius finds Hermia more attractive, even though Helena is devoted to him, while Hermia loves Lysander.

The instructions seem a little unclear as to whether you should create a scene from the top of your head or rewrite a scene from the play. Either way, you should try to focus on an idea that you can explore through wordplay and puns, which will require you to choose a word that has at least a few potential meanings, forms, or connotations. I don't know that "pain" would work since it has really only one specific meaning.

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