Titania

I: Introduction Hook: How does love relate to the world of law and reason? How is it that a supernatural power can make one fall in love with another regardless of their previous desires, feelings, or status? The love juice, a crucial symbol of love in A Midsummer Night's Dream, is used to describe the vision of fondness as an irrational, inexplicable, and frivolous force that ultimately overwhelms and transforms a person, whether it is desired or not. Inclusion of author and text: William…

move me / On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee” (Shakespeare 3.1.66-68). Although the audience knows that Bottom is not the most attractive, especially since he has the head of a donkey, they find it funny that someone as beautiful as Titania falls head over heels with the…

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a comedic play written by Shakespeare in around 1595 that is about the love complications between Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia. Throughout the play, many things go wrong that disrupts the order. From the use of potions to the conflict between fairy royalty, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has an obvious order vs disorder theme that teaches about Shakespeare’s world and beliefs. The theme of order and disorder can be seen in many instances in the play.…

A Literary Analysis of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” One of the most influential writers in the world was William Shakespeare. His works of art are praised and taught by teachers and professors all over the world. His works include “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet”, and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Shakespeare’s plays were among the favorites of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. His plays were mostly based on Greek mythology. The play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is considered one of…

by another person so that the two people believe that they are truly in love when they are not. Another example would be Oberon putting the magical flower drop on his own wife’s eyes for his own selfish reason. “Having once this juice,/I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,/And drop the liquor of it in her eyes./The next thing then she waking looks upon,/Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,/On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,/She shall pursue it with the soul of love” (2.1.161-7). These two…

Each character openly blames the other for their infidelities Titania points out Oberon 's affair in the quote “But I know / When thou hast stolen away from Fairyland, / And in the shape of Corin sat all day, / Playing on pipes of corn and versing love / To amorous Phillida” (2.1.3). While Oberon rebuttals this accusation in the line “How canst thou thus for shame, Titania, / Knowing I know thy love to Theseus? Glance at my credit with Hippolyta, / Didst thou not lead…

The difficulty of love is one of the center themes of many of William Shakespeare’s comedy plays. Many ways he emphasizes the theme of the play is by creating doubles through the characters. Doubling in literature is essentially mirroring aspects like plot, setting and characters in the play to emphasize a theme. In A Midsummer Nights Dream by William, Shakespeare doubling is used to show the characters difficulties with love. The instant love seen with the young couples, fatherly love seen with…

Night’s Dream, it shows comedic scenes, of which involve the love in between characters. In this play, William Shakespeare portrays the foolishness in love, as it induces the impedement of judgement portrayed by the characters: Helena, Lysander and Titania. The lack of judgement caused by love is shown through the Helena, who has unrequited feeling for Demetrius. During the scene where Helena helps Demetrius, she prompts asking for Demetrius to love her, “But herein mean I to enrich my pain, /…

Additional struggles resulting from true love include jealousy among lovers. At times, Helena is a bit jealous of Hermia and Lysander’s love. Included in the consequences of true love is a possible loss of friendship due to jealousy: “Call you me ‘fair’? That ‘fair’ again unsay. Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!” (1.1.184-185). At this point in the play, Demetrius is still doting over Hermia. Although this is the “way it should be” according to Egeus, sadly, Helena is blindly in love with…

the characters in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Titania is manipulated by Oberon by the use of the juice of a herb, “Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again Ere the leviathan can swim a league.”, the imperative language suggests that he knew that he was manipulating Titania, the juice tricks Titania into becoming a subservient wife and to hand over the boy, this is a happy ending for Oberon as he desired the outcome that he got however, for Titania she was manipulated into giving up her happy…