How Is Oberon Selfish

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.

The book has some moments when things went well for the characters after they sought to control someone. Oberon and Titania had been fighting for a while and part of the reason was because Titania wouldn’t give him the changeling boy. “ I then did ask of her, her changeling child which straight she gave me.” Oberon is now satisfied because after putting the potion in Titania’s eyes, she gave him the changeling child with no hesitation. Still in the end section of the play, things are finally coming to good terms, for one the lovers are getting married. “ Sing and dance trippingly… will we sing and bless this place.” This is the scene where they are celebrating due to the success of getting the couples together.Which included controlling Lysander to get him to love Hermia again. As you read A Midsummer Night's Dream, you might notice that there are more downfalls than victories when it comes to control. Although some might look at the broad picture being drawn, if you dig deeper you will notice that Shakespeare makes known that controlling isn’t possible. Even though in the play Oberon seemed to have it his way, in reality things don’t always turnout that way, especially when dealing with

Despite magic and freedom there is also a hierarchy commitment, Puck serves to Oberon, Fairies serves to Titania. Oberon used the magic and deception to obtain desired. But he doesn’t like the results of misunderstood between lovers caused with magic, he orders Puck to prevent fight between Lysander and Demetrius “and all things shall be peace”.

Oberon conjures up a plan in order to get a young child away from Titania, queen of the fairies, whilst doing this he is met with two of our other characters, Helena and Demetrius, “A sweet Athenian lady is in love/ with a huge disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes with the flower as well,” (II.i.268-269) in this point of the story Oberon encounters Helena who is trying to get the attention of Demetrius, who is completely ignoring her. This displays his need to place forceful authority because he is trying to controls Demetrius’s love, by putting him under a spell and making him fall in love with Helena. Unlike Egeus though, Oberon takes control over more than just one character, we see this in act 2 scene 1 lines 83-85 which says “Having once this juice,/ I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep/ And drop the liquor of it in her eyes,” out of the two Oberon would have to be the most controlling, because he in these three lines it shows yet another character Oberon is controlling. In this line though he is attempting to manipulate Titania in order to get the young changeling boy. Thereupon showing that in the face of love, control still will not

In conversation with Puck, he declares “The next thing then she waking looks upon, Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, On meddling monkey, or on busy ape, She shall pursue it with the soul of love.” Due to his hunger of power, Oberon tricks Titania into giving him the Indian Boy. This shows that he concerns himself more with having greater power over Titania than caring and loving her. In addition to that point, Oberon gives no reasons as to why he desires custody over the Indian boy, leaving the readers to assume that above all else, he wants to demonstrate his power over

Furthermore, the lines earlier shows Oberon’s plan to control and submit Titania to his will. His plan to make her fall in love with animals by using a potion indicates that he wants to embarrass Titania. He wants to use his power to manipulate her feelings. He craves the control that he did not have earlier in the play when Titania did what she wanted to do. Therefore, his desire to gain control results in the changing of Titania’s fate. Titania’s actions are based on Oberon’s power. Likewise, Oberon gains satisfaction by executing his plan which empowers him and gives authority. Further, not only does Oberon make plans to control Titania, but he also becomes the cause of the conflict among Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena. Oberon’s decision to meddle in their affairs directly impacts their fate as they become powerless over their situation. Oberon’s overwhelming sense of entitlement for utter control affects the events that transpire in their lives. Specifically, Oberon’s interference changes how two of the main characters, Lysander and Hermia interact with each other. Their mutual attraction to each other is altered as a result of Lysander’s will becoming influenced by Oberon. Thus, Lysander professes his love for Helena. Then, Hermia verbally attacks Helena:

Oberon is one of the most important characters in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and is the answer to the question of why there are so many problems in the play. Not only is Oberon the King of the Fairies but he is the husband of Titania and the master of Puck. Oberon’s character is multifaceted although it is evident that he will do anything for a good laugh. At times, Oberon is extraordinarily nice, generous, and compassionate. He felt sorry for Helena and tried to get Demetrius to fall in love with her.

A prominent trait of Oberon’s is stubbornness, which can be represented by a donkey. Oberon’s stubbornness can be seen multiple times in the play for example, “But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport. Therefore thee winds, piping to us in vain, as in revenge, have sucked up from the sea” (Act 2.1 86-88). Oberon shows he is stubborn in this example shown by Titania. In this quote whenever they come to do their dance to calm the wind, Oberon comes and disturbs it by arguing.

Titania and Oberon both wanted the changeling boy, so when Titania was under the spell, and at her weakest point, he pounced and stole the Indian Boy from her. He felt no sorrow for Titania when she was in love with Nick Bottom because of love juice, because he knew that she would never have given up the changeling boy. Oberon, himself, says “Her dotage now I do begin to pity:”( 4.1. 30) what he means is that he begins to feel sorry for making Titania so obsessed with an ass. He only now begins to feel ashamed for what he has done, after he has what he wanted. Oberon should not have deceived Titania in the first place to take the changeling boy.

He has Puck go and get a flower. This flower makes any living thing fall in love with the next living thing they see right away. Oberon is described as being a mean person in the book, he doesn’t care that he is messing around with his wife. Oberon really wants his own wife to suffer, and he really enjoys doing all of this. This makes him seem to be a very cruel and cold hearted person.

“I do but beg a little changeling boy/ To be my henchman (2.1.120-1).” Oberon wants the boy for himself, but could it be that perhaps he also wants the boy away from Titania? At this point, we know that Oberon is jealous of his wife’s lovers during the passage in Act 2 scene one, where Oberon is telling his wife of all the lovers that Theseus has had, and she quickly tells him that “These are the forgeries of jealousy” (1.2.81). Oberon’s jealousy is an interesting aspect of the story.

Theseus says things that are nice or complementive. He says, “Fair lovers, you are fortunately met: Of this discourse we more will hear anon. Egeus, I will overbear your will.”(4.1.l180-182) He is telling them that they have met at a convenient time and that they will hear more of what happened shortly. The nice thing about what he said is that he won’t have to kill anyone on that day and that the two pairs of lovers will be wed together. Also, after each part in the play, he compliments each actor for their performance. Oberon says things that are mean or on his mind. He says, “Tarry, rash wanton: am I not thy lord?” (2.1.63) First, he calls her a tar like presumptuous woman that displays a lack of consideration of the possible consequences of an action. Next, he implies that he is above her by calling himself her lord. This is just a mean thing to say to anyone and the fact that he said it to his wife just amplifies that what he says to others is awful. Oberon also says, “This is thy negligence: still thou mistakest, Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully.”(3.2.345-346) He is scorning Puck at this point because of the mistake he had made in the description of Demetrius. He assumes that Puck did this on purpose to cause the couples harm. He doesn’t even suspect that his vague description was the problem. What a person says to others can reveal a lot that might otherwise not be

The rise of tension between characters is another characteristic of comedic plays. After Oberon sees the way that Helena has been treated by Demetrius, he orders Puck to apply the juice to the eyes of Demetrius. Puck accidentally applies the juice to Lysander’s eye, which causes him to fall in love with Helena. After the mistake had been caught, Oberon sends Puck to watch Helena and Oberon applies the juice to Demetrius’ eyes. This causes both men to fall for Helena and now the battle is for Helena and not Hermia. Helena is convinced that this is a joke or prank because neither of the two men loved her before. Now because of Puck’s mistakes the four decide to find a

Oberon demands, “How can you stand there shamelessly talking about me and Hippolyta, when you know that I know about your love for Theseus? And weren’t you the one who made him cheat on all of his other girlfriends, like Aegles, Ariadne, and Antiopa? (Shakespeare II.ii.76).

This leads Oberon to take matters into his own hands. Where Puck was taking the place of Cupid, casting love relatively blindly and stupidly about the forest, as"...love [is] said to be a child because in choice he is so oft beguil'd" Oberon, therefore, takes the place of reason in the unreasonable realm of love. True love in A Midsummer Night's Dream is in 3 forms. Theseus and Hippolyta, Oberon and Titania and Hermia and Lysander.