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    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…

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    Scene 2 Act 1 in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare the married couple Oberon and Titania are fighting one another because they each want a changeling boy to themselves; this interpretation of the scene is effective because it demonstrates the power struggle between the two in the couple and the chaos this quarrel creates. In this interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Oberon and Titania are the rules of the forest but are not dressed up beautifully with silks, they…

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    Puck and Higgins were trying to impress someone. Puck was trying to impress Oberon and Higgins was trying to impress Colonel Pickering. Puck and Oberon are close because Puck is Oberon’s assistant and Puck trying to impress Oberon is like a younger sibling trying to show off to an older sibling what he/she can do. Pickering and Higgins are similar to each other because both characters are well educated…

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    they were bickering, Oberon had been watching their whole conversation. Oberon decided to have Puck take some of the magic flower and spread it across an Athenian dressed man's eyes. Later in the night, Lysander and Hermia arrive in the woods and decide to rest until morning. Puck had searched all over the world for an Athenian dressed man, but could not find any. When he had spotted Lysander and Hermia sleeping on the ground, he thought Lysander was the Athenian dressed man Oberon had talked…

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    to arrive that night so as the king and queen wouldn’t cross paths, because whenever they do, they always got into a fight. At that very moment, Oberon and Titania appeared besieged by their loyal followers. The royals began the quarrel. The latest topic they were arguing over was a young indian boy, which titania had adopted and began to care for, Oberon found it unjust that she was to get the boy and not him. He demanded that she give it to him, Titania refused and rushed away with her fairy…

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    which is an in depth analysis of english tradition in classical texts. The passage is entitled Bad Weather and dearth. It addresses the relationship between what Titania discusses in her explanation of the effect that the war between her self and Oberon has had on the natural world and real life occurrences of natural distress and famines that had happened in and around the lifetime of Shakespeare. The passage explains how for the first time in human history common people were beginning to blame…

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    There are several events that applied the theme of ‘manipulation and control,’ such as, Puck manipulating the lovers, Egeus controlling or manipulating Hermia to marry the man who he wants and Oberon manipulating the lovers. This essay will explore the theme of ‘manipulation and control’ and answer the question of ‘if love is always at the heart of the manipulation?’ using some examples, the events that are listed as above and how they relate to the theme and the question during the play. Puck…

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    run smooth” (1. 1. 134) is a central theme of the play. In the story Oberon and Titania, King and Queen of the fairies have an argument. Titania adopted an Indian boy and Oberon became jealous. Oberon wanted the Indian boy and refused to engage with her unless she gave the child up, but Titania still refused. Titania then went to the woods, with her fairies. In the woods she ordered her fairies to sing her to sleep. Oberon decided to get revenge on her, if she wanted to hurt him then he…

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    the “couples” to have love conflict. Puck is a boy who listens to Oberon. Oberon sent Puck to apply the love potion on Tatiana, his queen so she can give Oberon the little boy she had under her care. Oberon wanted Tatiana to instantly fall in love with the first person her eyes were set on when she woke up…

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    Considering Oberon saw him, it can be argued that in the Midsummer Night’s Dream Oberon plays a variation of fate. Oberon also told Puck he “marked where the bolt of the Cupid fell” (MND.…

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