Fairies In A Midsummer's Night Dream

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).

Oberon is so controlling that he controls people without them even knowing. Oberon is the Fairy King he is married to Titania. Oberon is the most controlling person in Mid Summer’s Nights dream because he puts love potions on people and he controls Puck, but other people think that Egeus is the most controlling.

Without oberon the love between the lovers would be fine because oberon used the juice in the wrong person's eyes twice with messed up who everyone loved. Oberon wanted demetrius to fall in love with hermia because hermia loved him. Demetrius

Oberon, riddled with jealousy over his queen’s beloved “changeling”, plots to make a fool out of Titania with his magic potion so he may steal away the child. Oberon's love-potion has the same effect of that of the famed Cupid's arrows, it charms the sight of those it is anointed upon, and gets them to fall in “love” with the first creature they see. Oberon anoints the eyes of Titania and she ends up falling in “love” with the first creature she sees, Bottom, an actor who is rehearsing in the woods, who’s head has been turned into that of an ass by Puck. Oberon plan is successful, he is in fact able to steal away the child while his queen dotes upon Bottom, but then things start to get more complicated in the moonlit woods.

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.

Titania and Oberon had a very weird relationship in which they were quoted as king and queen but rarely ever had a true love relationship. Oberon and Titania were the king and queen of the fairies throughout the book A Midsummers Night's Dream. Despite Titania and Oberon being involved with nature, they also showed many humanly characteristics. Humanity means compassionate, sympathetic, or generous behavior or disposition. Titania and Oberon seemed to act like humans and have humanly characteristics despite being a magical fairy couple. Titania and Oberon exhibited many humanly characteristics during A Midsummers Nights Dream that shaped themselves into having many imperfections as anger, jealousy, and embarrassment surround them.

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.

Another conflict that shows the contrast between rationality and irrationality is the relationship dynamics of Titania and Oberon, the queen and king of the fairies. They are both extremely stubborn and selfish, which causes a disturbance in the typical weather patterns of their realm. In spite of their responsibility to ensure the well-being of the forest, they argue over foolish things-especially over the Indian boy that Titania has been raising. Oberon decides he cannot be happy unless he has the boy for himself, and resorts to desperate measures to get his way. In this case, irrationality wins against rationality. Rather than working through his marriage problems with Titania, Oberon sends Puck to put a potion on Titania’s eye, which makes her fall in love with the first thing she sees. This conspiracy allows Oberon to snatch away the child while Titania is distracted. Although the marriage worked out in the end, it is based on the deception of a desperate husband who wanted his way.

The character Oberon relates to these topics because of how he pursues romance. In the plays beginning it is revealed that Oberon has flirted with and had multiple relationships with different women, including Hippolyta who is to be married, although he is supposed to love Titania who he insists is his lady. This, I believe is the way Shakespeare tells the reader that you don’t need love potion to quickly start and end romantic relationships. Oberon also relates because he manipulates romantic relationships and, I think, acts like cupid, by sprinkling his love juice in the eyes of strangers. This is seen when Oberon says, “Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid’s archery, Sink in apple of his eye” (Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 102-104). Oberon has good intentions when he ends up making the relationships even worse, but it eventually is resolved. His entire character relates to the themes of illusion vs reality in how he makes himself a dream in the lover’s eyes. I think that it raises the question however, of Oberon and the fairies actually being real at all, or if Shakespeare was using them to represent something, like the forces of love. Titania and Oberon have a complicated relationship that relates to the theme of love, it also changes and develops throughout the play, along with Oberon’s

Oberon is using a portion of the love juice that if put on a person's eye while sleeping, will fall in love with anything that they first see when they wake up. He is giving the rest to Robin to use on an Athenian man who hates a maid. Without any more knowledge, “This is he my master said despised the Athenian maid” (2.2.78-79), Robin ends up putting the rest of the love juice on true lovers. This could be part of Oberon’s fault for not telling who there were, their name or anything that could be more specific. Robin still made a huge conflict and there's still a lot to blame on him for it.

Oberon then decides to play a trick on Titania he sends Puck to put juice in Titania's eyes but then he decides to put the juice in Demetrius eyes. However he put the juice into Lysander and when he wakes up he sees Helena and immediately falls in love with her. The Oberon sees what has happened so Oberon puts the juice into Demetrius eyes who then falls in love with Helena. Then Helena gets mad at them because she thinks that they are trying to torment her.

When Helena asks, “Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?...That I did never, no, nor never can deserve a sweet look from Demetrius’ eye” (Act II, Scene II), Helena thinks that she is being fooled with, because Demetrius has never shown any affection towards her. The real cause for Demetrius’ love towards Nora is not a real life possibility in our daily lives, but instead is only fiction because of the love potion that Demetrius drank. By creating this little argument between true love or not, Shakespeare includes the love potion to make the plot a little different and interesting, rather than only writing about a life event that we could compare too, which is not as interesting and very predictable. Two other characters that have an argument which entertains Shakespeare's’ audience in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, are Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies. “For Oberon is passing fell and wrath because that she, as her attendant, hath a lovely boy stolen from an Indian king...and jealous Oberon would have the child knight of his train, to trace the forest's wild” (Act II, Scene I). Oberon and Titania have a solid relationship up until Oberon finds out that Titania has stolen an Indian boy to keep for herself. Oberon's jealousy leads to problems in their relationship, furthermore leading to Oberon using magic to put Titania under a spell. The irony visible here is that Oberon and Titania are fairies, and are not meant to adopt and keep children for themselves. By creating these two fairy characters, Oberon and Titania, to adopt the Indian boy, Shakespeare creates amusement for his audience. In all, Shakespeare's comical writing creates entertainment for his audience, in order to give the audience a great

Oberon develops this scheme because he is trying to teach Titania a lesson because she will not give the little Indian boy to him. While this is all happening, there are commonmen practicing their play that they want to present at Theseus’ wedding and are trying to figure out how to present it in a way that will not get them killed for being too scary for the noble women. Falling in love and theatre are compared because they both distort the person’s perception, suspend reality, and provide a connection to human experience to make sense of the world around us.

In the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, showcases magic as a powerful, yet useful tool in a rather queer way. Magic is constantly abused in the play by the characters, so that they can get what they want. Oberon, the fairy king, is one the abusers with magic. Oberon’s magic has a tremendous effect in the play. More precisely, Oberon’s magic not only affects his own life, but also other main characters in the story. Magic is often unpredictable and inexplicable. The play elucidates, that even if magic is used in an egregious way, it is incredibly powerful.

Oberon mess up the relationship between the lovers when he orders Puck to put love potion into Demetrius’s eyes. Becuase when Demetrius and Helena went into the forest to chase Lysander and Hermia, Oberon overheard their argument about how eagerly Helena want Demetrius’s love. Oberon might want to help Helena get his love and she will be thankful to him, so he gave an order