Love in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Shakespeare’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a story about love, chaos and fairy tales. The story begins with the preparations of a royal wedding at the palace of Athens. Theseus, the reining Duke, has fallen in love with Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazons. While Theseus is planning his wedding, Egeus enters the palace. Egeus is a stubborn old man that has promised his daughter to Demetrius. Hermia his daughter refuses to marry Demetrius, she wishes to marry the man she truly loves Lysander. During their discussion Hermia points out that Demetrius should marry Helena, who is in love with him. Duke Theseus hears the case and determines that Hermia should follow his father’s order and marry Demetrius. He tells, …show more content…
The wood is a magical place where King Oberon and Titania are the rulers of the fairy kingdom. King Oberon and his Queen Titania love each other, but they have conflicts in their relationship. The main conflict in their relationship is that Titania adopted an Indian boy and King Oberon wants to make the boy his servant. Titania explains to King Oberon that the child’s mother has died, and she must take care of him. The conflict between them continues when Titania, tells King Oberon that she is aware of his infidelities outside the Kingdom. King Oberon driven by jealousy decides to take revenge on his wife. The author Allen Dunn explain in his article that, “The fairy tale world is controlled by powers that frequently elude both human understanding and human control” (Dunn 19). King Oberon sends Puck, his fairy servant, with a single request. He asks Puck to find the juice of a flower that will make Titania fall in love with the first thing she sees, preferable an animal. Puck puts the magic spell on a man he found in the woods. The man transforms into an ugly donkey. Consequently, Titania sees the donkey and immediately she falls in love with him. While all this chaos is happening in the Kingdom of the fairies. Hermia and Lysander escaping from Athens arrive into the woods. In his article author Hugh Grady states that, “The world of Oberon and Titania is disrupted by a lover quarrel of course links the fairy world with the human world” (Grady 282). In this part of the plot of the play gets interesting. Demetrius looking for Hermia arrives into the woods with Helena. Demetrious is annoyed that Helena does not leave him alone. He is mean to her, but it seems
Shakespeare’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a story about love, chaos and fairy tales. The story begins with the preparations of a royal wedding at the palace of Athens. Theseus, the reining Duke, has fallen in love with Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazons. While Theseus is planning his wedding, Egeus enters the palace. Egeus is a stubborn old man that has promised his daughter to Demetrius. Hermia his daughter refuses to marry Demetrius, she wishes to marry the man she truly loves Lysander. During their discussion Hermia points out that Demetrius should marry Helena, who is in love with him. Duke Theseus hears the case and determines that Hermia should follow his father’s order and marry Demetrius. He tells, …show more content…
The wood is a magical place where King Oberon and Titania are the rulers of the fairy kingdom. King Oberon and his Queen Titania love each other, but they have conflicts in their relationship. The main conflict in their relationship is that Titania adopted an Indian boy and King Oberon wants to make the boy his servant. Titania explains to King Oberon that the child’s mother has died, and she must take care of him. The conflict between them continues when Titania, tells King Oberon that she is aware of his infidelities outside the Kingdom. King Oberon driven by jealousy decides to take revenge on his wife. The author Allen Dunn explain in his article that, “The fairy tale world is controlled by powers that frequently elude both human understanding and human control” (Dunn 19). King Oberon sends Puck, his fairy servant, with a single request. He asks Puck to find the juice of a flower that will make Titania fall in love with the first thing she sees, preferable an animal. Puck puts the magic spell on a man he found in the woods. The man transforms into an ugly donkey. Consequently, Titania sees the donkey and immediately she falls in love with him. While all this chaos is happening in the Kingdom of the fairies. Hermia and Lysander escaping from Athens arrive into the woods. In his article author Hugh Grady states that, “The world of Oberon and Titania is disrupted by a lover quarrel of course links the fairy world with the human world” (Grady 282). In this part of the plot of the play gets interesting. Demetrius looking for Hermia arrives into the woods with Helena. Demetrious is annoyed that Helena does not leave him alone. He is mean to her, but it seems