Comparing Cassius And Oberon In A Midsummer Night's

Cassius and Oberon as Similar Characters In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cassius and Oberon share the tendency of allowing their jealous nature to dictate their meddling actions. Both characters long to acquire something from their superiors and are willing to meddle in their lives to receive it. Oberon yearns for a changeling boy that is in his wife’s possession, and he begins to demand that Titiana “give [him] that boy and [he] will go” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.1.85). Oberon’s jealousy for Titiana’s boy begins to grow until he feels he must “torment [Titiana] for this injury” so she is willing to give up the boy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.1.89). Oberon’s desires for the changeling boy supports his envious nature. He regards Titiana’s act of keeping the boy to be an injustice towards himself, and he believes it to be so severe that …show more content…
Similarly, Cassius is jealous of Caesar’s power, and becomes hostile, questioning “what meat doth…our Caesar feed that he has grown so great?” (Julius Caesar 1.2.158-59) Cassius compares Caesar to a dog, which only eats meat, and implies that Caesar’s power has grown from questionable means. Cassius’s distain for Caesar’s power implies that he feels that he could handle the power more responsibly. Both Cassius and Oberon are willing to meddle in the lives of others to fulfill their inclinations. Oberon administered a love potion to Titiana, and she falls in love with an ass headed commoner man; but when Oberon will “have the boy, [he] will undo this hateful imperfection of her eyes” (Julius Caesar 5.1.59-60). Oberon humiliates his wife by forcing her to love an animal of a lower class and