Why Should Titania Disobey Her Oberon?

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 the one in the relationship with all the power because he guilt’s Titania into giving him the Indian boy, “She in mild terms begged my patience, I then did ask of her [for the] child” (IV. i. 59-60). Oberon does not love Titania because he always has to get everything he wants. Also, Oberon and Titania are jealous of each other.

Midsummer Night’s Dream mainly depicted the baffling journey of four Athenian young lovers, and a frivolous group of actors who unwittingly interacted with the Duke, Duchess, and somehow fairies. Being that the story took place in an eerie forest in Athens, there was a fight betwixt the fairy king himself and his lovely wife Titania, which had an impact on the environment. To win back the devotion of his wife Oberon showed her how fortuitous she was by making her fall in love with a weaver who was transformed into

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.

Critics would opine that Oberon loved Titania, and became jealous when she spent more time with the changeling boy than she did with him. Evidence suggests, however, that Oberon’s jealousy was based more on his controlling nature than his love for Titania; it appears that Oberon was more jealous of the fact that Titania wouldn’t submit to his demands, and unlike him, had a righteous reason for wanting to keep the

The fairy king and queen live in a type of parallel universe to their human counterparts. The forest that they live in represents a break from reality, or at least the reality initially presented. Despite their supernatural abilities, Oberon and Titania endure arguments like any couple, which instantly creates a blurring of reality and fantasy in the play. It is from an argument regarding the young Indian prince that propels Oberon to be at odds with his wife, which compels him to create chaos through magic. He is driven by the love for his wife, and love is also a prevalent theme throughout the play. It is love that drives all the characters, and not always rationally. As Robert Dent writes in his article, “Imagination in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “love sees with that part of the mind that has no taste of judgment (177)”, which is clearly displayed by the couples in the play. Interestingly, the blurring of reality and illusion originates with a lover’s spat, highlighting the impact that love can have on reality.

In William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” two worlds are contrasted throughout the play. The Athenian state is governed by order, law, and reason; the forest or Fairy world lies within the realm of the imagination where anything is possible. While both worlds run parallel in the play, their inhabitants are influenced by one another. Their rulers, Theseus and Oberon, play critical roles in the events of the story. Theseus acts compassionately with a sense of duty, order and respect; his initial rulings for Hermia provide the exposition for the comedy (May 75). Oberon acts compassionately as well, but acts on a whim and resorts to trickery if it suits his desires; his actions direct the complication in the plot (May 75). Their

This play Midsummer Night’s Dream displays the strength and the power of particularly how men controlled the lives of women and how the women suffered a lot from this thing and they hoped to finish from this controlling. The king dominated the life of the Queen of the fairies. Indeed, Titania suffered from the bad behavior and treatment of the king of the fairies ‘Oberon’. She is a very nice woman and very tender, but Titania refused the efforts of her husband ‘Oberon’ to give him the young Indian prince. So, the king and the queen quarrel all the time about the child.

In the play of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written by William Shakespeare, there are four different couples that show their affection in similar and different ways. The couples of Oberon and Titania have a similar relationship with Demetrius and Helena. Oberon and Titania have both seen other people and do not fully like one another, while Demetrius does not want to love Helena when she tries to woo him. The relationship between Oberon and Titania is similar to Helena and Demetrius because there is some big revelation for both couples to come back together. The relationship between Oberon and Titania differs to Helena and Demetrius since Oberon chooses to actively antagonize Titania, while Demetrius uses words to tell Helena to stop following him.

Oberon told Titania, “Why would Titinia want argue with her Oberon? All I'm asking for is to have that little boy as a part of my crew.” (Shakespeare 2.1.119-121). Titania and Oberon are fighting over a little boy. Oberon wanted the little boy to be a worker and Titania didn’t.

Another lyric from the song that fits in with their relationship is, “life is bare, gloom and mis’ry everywhere.” This also describes when Oberon and Titania are fighting and she’s explaining all the bad things that have been

Titania shows her loyal side in act II. She speaks of how she came to possess the Indian boy so desired by Oberon, “His mother

Some connections to the themes in the play are also present in the above soliloquy. At one point in it, Titania says that “The course of true love never did run smooth” (17), and that that is true for her and Oberon as well. All of the couples in A Midsummer Night’s Dream have somewhat bumpy relationships, and the King and Queen of the fairies are no exception based on what is said in the play. Titania claims that “And never, since the middle summer's spring, / Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead” (2.1.82-83). Through this passage it is made clear that this conflict between Oberon and Titania is not something that has been going on forever but is instead something that started fairly recently. The above soliloquy elaborates more on the backstory behind this. Also, Titania accuses Oberon of having affairs with other women, saying about Hippolyta “But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon, / Your buskined mistress several and your warrior love…”

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.

Titania and her husband Oberon are shown arguing over ‘A lovely boy, stol’n from an Indian king –’ (II.i.22) who is her possession. As she is refusing to hand over this changeling child, Titania is showing Oberon, that they are equals, ‘am I not thy lord/Then I must be you lady;’ (II.i.63-64), she retaliates showing him that they are equals, which when Shakespeare was writing this was far from the social norm. During their argument in Act 2, Titania uses natural world imagery to argue her case, that she should keep the changeling child and for their argument to cease. She says that "the winds, piping us in vain, /as in revenge have suck'd from the sea" (II.i.87-88) which suggests that she is angrier than normal as a wind coming of the sea is more powerful than a normal wind. This use of natural metaphors tells us that the characters of Oberon and Titania are unpredictable and dangerous because of the power they have as King and Queen of the fairies.