Fairies In A Midsummer Night's Dream Essay

Titania, before her bewitchment, warns Oberon that their own lovers' spat is causing havoc on earth. She speaks of "winds, piping to us in vain/As in revenge" (2.1 88, 90), of the moon, "pale in her anger" (104), and how the seasons "change/Their wonted liveries" (112-13). At first, Oberon cannot see beyond his jealousy of the little changeling Titania has adopted. He sets into motion fantastic spells that upend real love, mimicking the more serious complications wrought by human politics. Naturally, Titania's premonition bears fruit when Puck transforms Nick Bottom into an ass, and again when Lysander falls in love with Helena and forgets about Hermia. These turns of events eventually worry Oberon, too. He tells Puck to make sure to "lead these testy rivals so astray/As one come not within another's way" (3.2 358-59). He prescribes the potion to set things straight, calling the evening's pranks "a dream and fruitless vision," and declaring that with his corrective action, "all things shall be peace" (3.2 377).

Bottom makes more remarks to being an ass, but because he is a fool, he never realizes that he is an ass literally. Puck's prank had a bonus when Titania wakes to Bottom's singing and falls instantly in love, due to the potion, with him. Puck's enjoyment in trickery and Bottom's stupidity combine and make bad go to worse in this scene, but then again, this whole scene was to further the action of the

Two other mortals have entered the woods that night as well, Demetrius and Helena. Helena, hopelessly in love with Demetrius, is following him on his mission to find his betrothed, Hermia, and they are also subjected to the mischievous workings of Oberon and Puck. Oberon, after observing the two young mortals, feels bad for “sweet” Helena, that even though she is professing her undying love and devotion to Demetrius he rejects her at every turn. Demetrius hatefully tells Helena “ I’ll run from thee and hide me in the brakes, and leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts’’, along with other loathsome statements, in rebuttal to Helena’s

Hermia was not going to give up her growing passion and desire for Lysander. She decided to run off into the woods with Lysander and get married.

However, Shakespeare uses Bottom to draw the audience’s attention to serious themes, such as the relationship between reality and imagination. He is also the most down-to-earth character in the play as he does recognise that Titania's statements about him aren't true, when Titania devotes her love to him 'On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.', Bottoms responds with 'Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that', also when Titania

Bottom at first was questioning why the fairies and Titania were respecting him with so much love, but then he embraces it. Bottom enjoys the attention he receives from Titania and her fairies, which isn’t very surprising because he loves himself.

Humans are known for making mistakes all the time and the fact that Robin mistakes Lysander for Demetrius shows that he too suffers from error and is not infallible. "Weeds of Athens he doth wear. This is he my master said Despised the Athenian maid." This mistake allows for the actions and conflicts that take place between the lovers to finally come through and surface to the audience. The human actors provide entertainment for the duke and elite of Athens as the fairies provide entertainment for the audience and the lovers in the forest. The servants of Oberon and Titania reflect the servants of Theseus and the performers of the play in the fact that both groups of servants are controlled by a higher power. "That thou shalt like an airy spirit go. Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mote, and Mustardseed!" Both fairies and humans fall in love with another as shown between Titania and Oberon and Lysander and Hermia.

Right after Bottom scared all the people with his ass, he meets Titania (Applied to the love juice). Titania immediately falls in love with Bottom and his ass’s head. When she hears Bottom sing, she says "I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again: Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note; So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape; And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me. On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee." (Act 3 Scene 1 Line 121). She treats Bottom like her own child, she feeds him, she sleeps with him and pampers him. This is a comedy, as it is absurd to fall in love with a person with an ass. When Oberon takes the spell away from Titania, she also thinks that it is not possible and is startled. She says “My Oberon, what visions i have seen! Methought I was enamour’d of an ass.” (Act 4 Scene 1 Line 75). Titania is a the queen of fairies and has a lot of power and reputation amongst her people, In Act 3 Scene 1 Line 139, she was so powerful, she could just say “I’ll give thee fairies to attend on thee”, and Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth and Mustardseed immediately came to serve her. Titania should not be under a spell. Imagine Julius Caesar falling in love with a hippo, it just does not make

The hilarious play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, tells the twisted love story of four Athenians who are caught between love and lust. The main characters: Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius are in a ‘love square’. Hermia and Lysander are true love enthusiasts, and love each other greatly. Demetrius is in love with Hermia, and Helena, Hermia’s best friend, is deeply and madly in love with Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander try to elope in the woods because Egeus, Hermia’s father, disapproves of Lysander. Helena, hearing about their plans, tells Demetrius, and all four of them end up in the woods where Lysander’s quotation, “The course of true love never did run smooth”(28), becomes extremely evident due to several

This is shown when he says that when he performs “the audience [will] look to their eyes; I will move storms” (I. ii. 19-20), implying he wants the audience to shed tears because of him. It is also shown when Bottom is taken by Titania and the faeries. Even though he says that Titania has no reasons to love him, he quickly accepts her love and let Titania and the rest of the faeries dote on him. Shakespeare also portrays Bottom as being very foolish and easy to mock.

Lots of feelings between Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius are not mutual and are only a series of unconnected lines from one person to another to another. This truly demonstrates the hardships and complications of true love and how it does not always go as perfect as planned.

Titania is arguably the strongest women in the play; however she is still susceptible to the devious schemes of Oberon and Puck. She is tricked, by the use of a love-juice potion, into falling in love with Bottom who appears to have an ass’s head, “An ass’s nole I fixed on his head” (III.ii.17). This event leads to Oberon asking her for the changeling child “Which straight she gave to me,” (IV.i.58) showing that even strong woman can be tricked by men, which is still

There is, however, a more pleasant quality of the wood. Titania's bower is described by Oberon as a place of great beauty and delight to the senses. Titania, in love with Bottom, orders her fairies to provide him with delightful pleasures. Though his appetite is

In the play, A Midsummer Night’s dream, Hermia, Egeus’s daughter is denied to wed her love Lysander, but has to comply with her father’s wishes and marry Demetrius. Infuriated, Hermia runs off with Lysander to his aunt’s house, sick of the Athenian law. As the lovers wander off into the forest, Helena, who is madly in love with Demetrius, tells him about the whereabouts of Hermia. In another part of the forest, Oberon, king of fairies meets Titania, the queen of fairies, arguing for a changeling child from India. When Titania refuses to give him up, Oberon plans revenge, by hiring Robin Goodfellow, also known as “Puck”, to retrieve a magical love flower, anointing her eyes and Demetrius’s, feeling bad for Helena after how Demetrius had treated her. Accidentally, Puck spreads it on Lysander’s eyes, creating major conflicts, later being resolved as the 4 lovers get married.

Nick Bottom was on the bottom of the social scale out of all of the characters, frequently making grammatical mistakes, unaware of how ridiculous and overdramatic his speeches were. He is even unaware that his head has been transformed into one of an ass. However throughout the play, he is slowly elevated from being the ridiculous fool of the play to one that is appreciated greatly. First, Titania falls in love with Bottom-from the spell she's under-after his head is transformed into a donkey's. Bottom doesn't see anything out of the ordinary that a beautiful creature, like Titania could fall in love with him, but that her affections, including the fairies' were what he deserved. After Oberon removes the spell from his wife and Bottom's head is back to normal, he returns to the craftsmen to continue with the show. After the play is over, Theseus sees Bottom not as a fool, but as a great