A Midsummer's Night Dream Analysis

To understand “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”, one needs to know that there are three worlds happening in this play; there is the human world with the Athenians, the Fairy world, and a “play within a play” that the Mechanicals put on. The action starts when Theseus tells Hermia she has four days to decide whether she is going to marry Demetrius, become a nun or be put to death. While this is happening in the human world the fairy king, Oberon wants a child that the fairy queen, Titania is raising. She denies him of the child, which angers Oberon; in retaliation he tells Puck to gather a flower that will make Titania fall in love with the first creature she sees. Overhearing an argument between Helena, who loves Demetrius, and Demetrius, Oberon instructs Puck to put Demetrius under the spell so that he will return Helena 's love. Demetrius flew to the woods to find Hermia before she ran away with Lysander to marry him. Puck, mistaking the two men, puts love potion on Lysander 's eyes not Demetrius, and when he awakes he falls …show more content…
The lovers are seen throughout the show and without Lysander 's choice to marry Hermia behind Egeus’s back, there would be no story, the action starts with him. After participating in the performance I learned that Demetrius and Lysander are extremely similar. They were both quick to anger when they could not get the girl they wanted, they both have the same taste in women, and they were both under a spell love to love the other woman. King Oberon and Queen Titania were like the old married couple that bicker in public but at the end of the night they still love each other. Puck was the annoying younger sibling that can’t help but mess things up because they love the chaos. You want to dislike him because he was the troublemaker but he was