Examples Of Control In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Some people believe that exaggerated control can end up in good a outcome but in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, several events occur that prove this wrong. In this play, there are many different love related situations that end up in negative positions. These situations end up this way because someone/something exerts too much control over a person or object. An early example of excessive control is Egeus. At the start of the story Egeus goes to Theseus to try and change Hermia’s mind by forcefully giving her 3 options: Marry the man of Egeus’s choice, become a nun, or be executed. He walks into Theseus’ palace with Hermia alongside him against her own will. Egeus is enraged with his daughter because she is …show more content…
Also connected to love, Oberon is having trouble with his wife Titania. Not only is Oberon is very dedicated to making a little Indian boy his servant, but he is also skeptical about Titania’s love towards him. Oberon’s solution to this however, involves a magical flower. This magical flower, when its juice is applied to somebody’s eyes, makes them fall in love with the first thing he/she sees. Oberon uses this flower on Titania. Oberon describes his plan when he says “Having once this juice, I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep and drop the liquor of it on her eyes. The next thing then she waking looks upon- Be it a lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, on meddling monkey or on busy ape- she shall pursue it with the soul of love. After explaining his plan, it is very obvious how controlling it is. Not only does she not get to pick who she falls in love with, she does not have the ability to reverse this effect without more flower juice. This eventually leads on to Titania loving someone she really has no interest in at all, and Oberon gets the little Indian boy. Oberon later feels guilty and realizes that he did not get the outcome he wanted after