She believes that Hermia now hates her. This humungous tangle is caused by a fairy named as Puck. He is a very mischievous fairy and will do anything of his master’s command. His master’s name is Oberon; he is the King of the fairies in the woods. This dramatic tangle produces a glimpse of calamity and a narrow window of humour of Helena’s confusion.…
Oberon and Robin Oberon. I believe Oberon would be better suited for today's world. In Shakespeare’s Fantasy/Comedy A Midsummer's Night Dream, There are four intertwined lovers playing for each others hearts. Along with the lovers there are everyday people practicing for plays and royalty preparing for their weddings. Behind the scenes though there are fairies.…
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play packed with mischief and mayhem. It is often referred to by modern-day scholars as the Elizabethan Inception, as there are multiple examples of “play within a play” devices, each embodying several themes and concepts. Among these are examples of the contrast of tragedy and comedy, the dynamics of the written and spoken word, and imagination vs. reality.…
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.…
puck was ordered to retrieve the flower for Oberon so puck was part of Oberon’s doing and puck would do it anytime. puck doesn’t feel sorry and doesn’t want to make things better with titania. When he was changing bottoms head into an asses he said “My mistress with a monster is in love”.…
This Puck character is not very efficent or reliable at handling his tasks. Like when he confuses the four lovers and puts the love potion on the wrong lover. Puck just nevers has a concious when he plays out his pranks on others. Puck likes to have many idenities some are “shrewd and knavish sprite”, “hobgoblin”, and “merry wanderer of the night”. When Puck made the mistake and thought Demetrius was Lysander, Oberon insited that Puck put the lovers together with the correct partners.…
In this story Oberon gives Robin, or Puck, something to put on Demetrius’s eyes that will make him fall in love with Helena, but Puck mistakes someone else for Demetrius & puts it on them, causing everything to go wrong. Oberon tells Puck to put it on Demetrius’s eyes “... A sweet Athenian lady is in love with a young man who wants nothing to do with her. Put some of this flower’s juice on his eyes, & make sure to do it in such a way the next thing he sees will be the lady….”(Shakespeare Act, 2 Scene 1. 260-263), Robin sees Lysander & Hermia, then mistakes them for Demetrius “...(he sees Lysander & Hermia)…
A Midsummer’s Nightmare Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream suggests that its relationships are happy ones, but this suggestion is complicated. In fact, the interplay between each of the couples indicates a nefarious quality present in all these relationships.…
Oberon’s involvement in the love lives of Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius’ relationships shows the readers that true love takes place in the story, since the relationships are meddled with and finally mended after Oberon’s servant and troublemaker Puck messes up. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, true love seems to exist because of the fact that it is influenced by a divine being, the lovers triumph their hardships together, and both couples strive to love even when the other does not love them back. First off, true love can be affected by a divine being, and this is shown in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is because of the fact that Oberon is a divine figure who has lots of godly powers as a fairy king.…
“This is thy negligence. Still thou mistakest…”(3.2.345) This shows that whenever Oberon tells Puck what do do,…
Love is shown and interpreted in different ways. In William Shakespeare’s novel Midsummer Night Dream, there are many kinds of relationship involving “love”. The theme of love is represented through the romantic love between Oberon and Titania, young love between Demetrius and Helena, Lysander and Hermia and the friendship love between Hermia and Helena. Oberon and Titania represents a romantic, mature and weathered love which the other lovers relationship lacks but, lack of trust is the source of their argument. Oberon and Titania are angry with each other over the fact that Titania will not obey Oberon.…
Oberon, Titania, and Puck are all names of Uranus’ moons. This direct reference adds a scientific depth to the symbol of the moon, which has already been established as a thoroughly integrated token of symbolism in the play. Puck, the fairy that caused so much of the confusion within the play, represents the moon’s ability to be destructive and chaotic in…
Both spirits help their leaders to accomplish task and fulfil the goals of their leaders yet, Oberon’s relationship with Puck is friendlier in relation to Prospero and Ariel’s, evident in the way he addresses Puck by his name “Robin” (3.2.362 and 4.1.46) and “mad spirit” (3.2.4) in acknowledgement of his title of “Robin Goodfellow” (2.1.34), a mischievous spirit which brings about trouble. Despite being the King of fairies, Oberon enlists help from Puck and does not manipulate him to do his bidding, the way Prospero does with Ariel. This distinction is proved with Oberon’s use of words like “Hie” (3.2.362) to hurry Puck to mend the situation and “pray” (2.1.249) to ask Puck to hand him the potion. On the other hand, Prospero treats Ariel like a slave, using his promise against Ariel shown in “after two days I will discharge thee” (1.2.299) and “I’ll free thee Within two days for this” (1.2.421-2). The repetition of “I’ll free thee”, “I’ll discharge thee” is manipulation that Prospero applies for Ariel to do his commands, knowing that Ariel wants his freedom.…
Oberon, once again instructs Puck to try and remedy the Lysander and Helena love situation by removing the spell from Lysander’s eyes. Puck uses magic to create a fog, so they could not see each other, and helps Demetrius and Lysander fall asleep in the confusion of the thick fog.(Hacht,2007). While they are asleep on the ground Puck states,”on the ground, sleep and sound. I’ll apply to your eye, gentile lover remedy(4:1:48-52). Oberon did , so he could get Demetrius to love Helena and Lysander to love Hermia.…
Robin Goodfellow (Puck) and Oberon are seen as the tricksters of the play, and use their magic to destroy the relationships of both humans and fairies alike. When Titania refuses to hand over the young Indian prince to her king, Oberon decides to play a cruel trick on her and sends his servant Puck to retrieve a magical flower. The juice of this flower, after being spread over a sleeping person’s eyes, will cause that person to fall in love with the first creature they see when they wake up. Unfortunately, things do not go exactly as planned. As said by Robert W. Dent in Imagination in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,…