A Midsummer Night 's Dream By William Shakespeare

In William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is about the love quadrangle that develops among Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius. While a group of actors rehearse a play in the woods, and find their lives changed by the doings of Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of the fairies. It begins with Hermia refusing to marry Demetrius and her running into the woods with Lysander. When Hermia finds out and reports this to Demetrius in hopes of gaining his attention. Hermia likes him but he does not like her back. These relationships on who likes who all get messed up thanks to Puck, who on Oberon’s orders puts a love potion in Lysander's eyes creating the love quadrangle. The reason for the love potion being Oberon is jealous of Titania and the changeling boy. Matt Groening once said “Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.” and the audience can see this play out in a Midsummer Night’s Dream when things like the love potion come into effect and everyone is falling in love with the people they do not want to.

Titania spends all of her time lavishing a young Indian boy with affection, the attention that she pays to this boy has caused a huge rift between her and her husband, Oberon, the fairy king. Oberon wishes for the boy to be a henchman to himself, he shows his resentment for the fact that Titania keeps the child by her side and keeps Oberon at a distance. Puck makes a statement that lets readers know that Titania “perforce withholds the boy, crowns him with flowers, and makes him all his joy.” This weakness in the bond between Titania and Oberon makes them susceptible to the capricious effects of the flower’s magic fluids, and Titania’s mind is clouded with infatuation for a man with the head of an ass. The changeling boy whom Titania has sworn her life to protect came in-between her and her husband and tore them

Love is such an abstract and intangible thing, yet it is something that everyone longs for. In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the difficulty of love is explored through the obstacles that characters have to face while pursuing their loved ones. Those characters that are in love in the play were conflicted with troubles; however, the obstacles of love do not seem to stop them from being infatuated with each other. The concept of true love is examined throughout this play. By creating obstacles using authority and a higher power, Shakespeare examines the power of love. Through Hermia and Lysander’s loving words, it is reasonable to conclude that love conquers all if you believe in it.

Shakespeare presents the male characters within the play as either being fickle or faithful, he does this using many techniques. By putting each male character under a situation can express both their faithfulness and their fickleness, also by giving evidence to represent how they are either fickle and faithful allows us as a reader to figure it out at our own accord.

The relationships in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are patriarchal. Even though the lovers try to go against the societal norm by running away to the forest, their inherited characteristics keep them trapped in the patriarchal way. The four lovers, Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrious, present a love that shows how the women remain loyal to their men through testing trials. Titania and Bottom have an unconventional relationship that is caused by love juice which provides the fulfillment of woman to man. Shakespeare uses the relationship between Titania and Bottom to emphasize the man’s status over a woman in a patriarchal society. To do this, he illustrates how a woman should dote upon her man by fulfilling his fantasies and

　　　Oberon and Titania represent a romantic, mature and weathered love which the other lovers’ relationship lacks, but lack of trust is the source of their argument.The outcome of their love has a big influence on the play. Oberon and Titania are angry with each other over the fact that Titania will not obey him. For example, Oberon wants Titania to prove that she values his affection over the

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare uses different types of characters to portray different kinds of love. Lysander and Helena, the young lovers, and Oberon and Titania, the Fairy King and Queen, have different definitions of love in their relationship. Lysander and Helena have a pure, matter-of-fact connection. They are in love by default, simply because that is ingrained into their characters. Oberon and Titania, however, have a relationship built more on the basis of control. They play games with each other, trying to get the upper hand in the relationship. In the end, one being in control is more attractive to Oberon than the actual connection between the people in the relationship. This is what draws him to Helena, who possesses a naive and superficial love for Demetrius. Helena is more obsessed with Demetrius than truly in love with him, as there does not seem to be much basis for her infatuation. In the process of loving Demetrius, she deprecates her own character. Oberon appreciates the devotion Helena has for Demetrius and wishes Titania had her qualities, so he pities her, and assists with her conquest of Demetrius. However, his process takes Demetrius’s will away, much like how Oberon sought to humiliate Titania. Although the happy ending is with Helena and Demetrius together, their relationship is more similar to that of Bottom and Titania than Hermia and Lysander, which is what the audience is supposed to infer by their placement in the story.

"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind", spoken by Helena in Act 1 Scene 1 line 234, explains that it matters not what the eyes see but what the mind thinks it sees. In the play, A Midsummer Night 's Dream, written by William Shakespeare, there are several instances where the act of seeing is being portrayed. The definition of vision is the ability to see, something you imagine or something you dream. This proves that even though one has the ability to see; the mind tends to interfere and sometimes presents a different picture. Various scenes in the play interpret this act on more than one occasion. For instance, the use of imagination plays a vital role as it depicts the powers and limitations of human vision presented in this story. The artful use of seeing which allows one to notice or become aware of someone or something, sight which helps someone or something be seen and, eyes which allow one to appreciate something seen helps the audience understand just how significant the act of seeing is in the daily love affairs of each character.

Love does not run smoothly for the lovers in the romantic comedy, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” written between the years 1590–1596 by the prominent, English playwright; William Shakespeare. The play revolves around four lovers that each faces incessant complications for love. Demetrius, Hermia, and Lysander are trapped in a triangle of love in which Demetrius and Lysander both love Hermia, but Hermia’s heart only belongs to Lysander. Helena is not involved in the love triangle, but loves Demetrius, which—traditional to any love predicament—does not love her back. To Demetrius’ avail, Hermia’s father [Egeus] tries to coerce Hermia to marry his choice [Demetrius] or yield to the law of Athens and face the sanction of death or (suggested by

Shakespeare has many memorable female characters from Lady MacBeth from Macbeth to Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing. Both females are mentioned numerous times when discussions on Shakespeare’s plays comes about. One female character, though, is overlooked time and time again. Although not seen as a strong character, it is due to both historical context and male dominance that forced Hippolyta into the role she played in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.

The works of William Shakespeare are full of intention: every word, character interaction, and bit of characterization was carefully and deliberately chosen by the bard to enrich the story he told. Each scene is the sum total of these careful and deliberate inclusions. While the scene is comprised of only about 200 lines, the first scene of the second act of A Midsummer Night’s Dream introduces many of the major players in the overall plot, and showcases some highly interesting characters and character interactions that persist throughout the play. In particular, the character of Puck and the relationship between King Oberon and Titania are highlighted and greatly developed in this section of the play.

Next, let us talk about the affair between Bottom and Titania. Titania is the Queen of the Faeries, a most important figure, and the partner of the Faerie-King Oberon. Oberon is jealous of a particular Indian boy of Titania’s, but she won’t just give him up. So he sends Puck out to drug Titania with love potion, so when she awakes she’ll fall in love with the first thing she sees, no matter how horrid.

Just like the way we think of it in today’s society, love, in a classical Shakespearean play is heavily influenced by other people. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written by William Shakespeare, is a very unique comedy in which love has a different definition with everyone in the play. The play portrays the adventures of four young lovers and a group called the mechanicals along with their interactions with woodland fairies and a duke and a duchess. This work is widely performed around the world, and it’s no wonder, it 's about the world 's most popular pastime, falling in love. But as the mischievous Puck knows, falling in love can make fools of us all. The message conveyed of the nature of love, in the play, is that no matter how hard you try, the control of love is out of your hands, but is in the hands of society.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes place in Athens where the the Duke Theseus and the Queen of the Amazons Hippolyta are set to get married. Following this we see the fruition of two more plots of love, Helena, Lysander, Demetrius, and Hermia and the king and queen of the fairies Oberon and Titania. The plot I am going to focus on will be that of the four lovers, the complication and the conflict that they’re love causes. The conflict begins when “Take time to pause, and by the next new moon—the sealing day betwixt my love and me

Titania “perforce withholds the loved boy/ Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all her/ joy” (2.1.26-28) and this causes Oberon to become jealous. “These are the fictions of jealousy”(2.1.84). Titania has been giving Oberon less attention because of the Indian boy and this makes Oberon jealous, and soon wants the boy for himself, “Give me that boy and I will go with thee” (2.1.148). Both the fairy king and queen will go to any lengths to own the Indian boy for themselves. Oberon wants the boy to be his personal assistant, which causes conflicts to arise between Oberon and Titania, and soon their love withers away, but as soon as Oberon reverses the love spell, Titania and Oberon love each other as they did once before.