Midsummer Night's 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).

“Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I, and then end life when I end loyalty! Here is my bed, Sleep give thee all his rest!” (II, ii, 68-70). Demetrius is more mean and violent, especially towards Helena. When Helena tells Demetrius of Hermia’s plans to elope in the woods, he gets angry. He tells Helena that he does not love her and looks for Lysander so he can fight him. “I love thee not; therefore pursue me not. Where is Lysander and fair Hermia? The one I’ll slay; the other slayeth me” (II, i, 187-190). Helena loves Demetrius, so much that she would even tolerate him hitting her, and Demetrius warns her not to tell him that because he would not mind doing so. “Temp not too much the hatred of my spirit, for I am sick when I look on thee” (II, i, 211-112). The difference between Oberon and Theseus is emotions and logic. Oberon uses emotions to get what he wants, while Theseus uses the law and logic to get what he wants. Oberon wants Titania to give up her son. She will not do it willingly, so he lets anger control him and tells Puck to go find a flower that will make you fall in love with the first thing you see. This is to distract her so he can get the child and he hopes that whatever she sees is

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

At the time, Lysander and Hermia were completely smitten with each other. But her father Egeus disapproved of their relation and wishes for Hermia to marry Demetrius. He comes to Theseus with these concerns and uses his Athenian rights to chose the man his daughter wed. Disrespecting his daughter’s feelings and clearly biased against Lysander, Egeus went so far as to dishonor him before the duke and force Hermia into a position where she must follow his wishes, die or become a nun. Hermia refuses every option, but their love is clearly disrupted with this great obstacle. In contrast to Egeus’ claims of Lysander’s trickery, Hermia and Lysander are clearly devoted to each other. Hermia clings onto their love and Lysander comforts her in a manner that gives him the reputation of a romantic. Before concluding, “So quick bright things come to confusion”, he says that “The course of true love never did run smooth” (Shakespeare, P15). Love brings happiness, it nourishes the soul and completes one’s heart, but it can fall short just as easily and bring about even greater hate. Another example of this involves the Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of fairies respectively. They start off as a separate layer in this play and though their fondness for each other isn’t described as thoroughly, their conflict stands

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:

Hermia’s speech in Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, contains an abundance of dream imagery. She has awoken from a terrible dream after falling asleep in the forest with Lysander. They were lost and tired so they decided to rest. Lysander wanted to sleep beside her but, she refused since they are not yet married and while they slept Puck applied a love potion on Lysander’s eyes thinking he was Demetrius. Lysander wakes and is repulsed by the sight of Hermia and never wants to see her again because he is now in love with Helena. Hermia awakes from her terrible dream and retells it thinking that Lysander is nearby listening. Then she realizes that he is not there and she does not see him anywhere. Hermia expresses the sentiment that she will find Lysander or she will surely die. She stated,

Later, Thisbe comes back to the forest and ends up killing herself. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oberon’s servant, Robin, is sent to put a love potion on an Athenian man that Oberon saw in the woods. Oberon saw Demetrius yell at Helena for following him and wants the love potion put on him to make him love Helena as much as Helena loves him. Robin doesn’t know that there are two Athenian men in the forest and mistakes Lysander for Demetrius. Robin ends up putting the spell on Lysander.

Steven: The characters we are going to cover in the secondary plot are Puck, Oberon, Titania, and Nick Bottom.

Things do not usually go well when one person tries to control another person’s life. The play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was written by the playwright, William Shakespeare in the late 1500’s and takes place in Ancient Athens. Shakespeare displays many examples of the theme, do not try to control other people’s lives throughout his play. For example, Egeus, Hermia’s father, tries to control who Hermia marries. “A sweet Athenian lady is in love

Demetrius loves Hermia and Helena loves Demetrius. Puck shakes things up when he makes both boys fall in love with Helena. This scene shows a

In the play when the fairies are fighting things go wrong in the world with the mortals. Oberon and Titania are fighting over Titania’s mortal friend’s child. Oberon wants to use the little boy for some of his works. However Titania will not hand the child over. This leads to the feud between the two fairies. Oberon tells Puck to place the love potion on Titania’s eyes so when she awakes she will fall deeply in love with the first thing she sees and forget all about Oberon and the child. Oberon oversees how Demetrius is treating Helena and tells Puck to also use some on him to make him fall madly in love with Helena. This is where the mix up happens and the lovers flip flop. Pucks sees Lysander and assumes that is Demetrius. He gives the potion to Lysander while he is sleeping and along comes Helena and wakes him. Now Lysander is in love with

Hermia and Lysander are deeply in love with one another; however, Oberon, the king of the fairies, instructs Puck, a mischievous fairy, to spread the love juice upon the eyes of Demetrious so that he will fall in love with Helena. Instead of following Oberon’s orders, Puck mistakenly spread the potion on the eyes Lysander. As soon as he awakes, he lays eyes upon Helena and falls in love with her and says, “... And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake/ Transparent Helena! Nature shows art/ That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart”(2.2. 103-105). Lysander shows that he no longer loves Hermia and loves her best friend, Helena. Shakespeare shows the weakness of Hermia and Lysander’s relationship, and as soon as magic influences them, their bond begins to crumble. As magic hurts one bond, it also threatens Hermia and Helena’s relationship. Hermia is furious with Helena for stealing away Lysander's love, but doesn’t know that magic is the only reason for it. Hermia accuses Helena of using her height to her advantage, and believes that is the reason

I decided to do this part of the play because it's  where everything goes wrong. Oberon asked Puck to smear the potion on Demetrius eyes so that he will fall in love with helena. But Puck spreads the magic potion over Lysander’s eyes, thinking Lysander is Demetrius. Lysander falls into love with Helena, who thinks he is toying with her. Then, Puck spreads the potion over Demetrius’ eyes, so that he, too, is in love with Helena. Helena thinks that both boys are cruelly mocking her, while Hermia is left alone and equally confused. Puck's mistake separated true lovers that is hermia and lysander. This part therefore is very significant to the play.

The group that ues it the most is the mechanicals, the workmen who work on putting together a play for the grand wedding day. In act four, scene two, these characters are getting ready for the play the have to put on. However, their main actor, Bottom, has been missing for days. When he finally shows up, the play organizer Peter Quince exclaims” Bottom! O most courageous day!

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