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How is situational irony displayed in a midsummer nights dream
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Control is used in everyday life.Peers in school bosses at work teacher to students.It's everywhere. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream many of the characters try to control one another.Oberon a fairy that lives in a magical forest tries to control a second fairy named Puck or Robin as both names were used in the book.Demetrius a man who is going to marry Hermia tries to control Helena because she loves him but he is getting married. When you control you are successful and forceful. The of result of the theme control is successful.Oberon is in the woods and sees Demetrius and Helena fighting. Oberon calls Puck over and tells him to go get a little western flower that cupid shot with a love arrow. When Puck returns Oberon says “Anoint his eyes,but do it when the next thing he espies may be the lady.”(2-1-261-63) What Oberon is really saying is …show more content…
Shakespeare makes it seem you can't control anyone. Oberon thinks he is controlling Robin but really he isn't. Oberon isn't controlling Puck because after he is giving the flower he messes everything up and outs the flower juice in Lysander (another athenian man falling in love) eye. “(squeezes flower juice on Lysander's eyelids)...When thou wakest let love forbid.” This shows Oberon did not control because if Oberon was actually controlling puck wouldn't mess up and the story would end. Demetrius also does not control because at the end of the story he married Helena. “Now I do wish it love it long for it And will for evermore be true to it.”(4-1-173-74) This shows Demetrius doesn't control because in this quote says he loves Helena and will always love her. However this is untrue. It's untrue because Demetrius only fell in love with Helena because of a magic flower and Oberon did indeed tell Puck what to do but simply Robin was the one to make a mistake. William Shakespeare may make it look like you can not control others but It’s very obvious that you can control
He has a shape shifting ability, and can also change his voice. We know this because he led Lysander and Demetrius around the woods by mimicking the voices of other people calling out to them. He made everything seem like a dream the next day. At first, he had to separate the four Athenians, and then bring them back to one area where they will all be simultaneously, but will not be aware of each other’s presence. He then gives Lysander the antidote, along with Titania, who was also in the same area asleep with Bottom. Once again, if it was up to Puck, Titania would have been stuck with Bottom. Oberon was satisfied because Titania had given up the changeling, and thought she suffered
This is rather irritating because the women just want to tell tales but, Puck embarrasses them with his magic. Lastly, Puck tricks elderly women to sit on him to only drop them on their backside during a sad tale. Puck says that when a woman is telling a sad story, he turns into a 3-legged stool, so the lady sits on him and when she's talking about an important part of the story, Puck disappears and makes her fall on her backside which makes fun of her because she is cussing at everyone (II.I.55-60). To summarize, Puck causes disarray for the innocent people of Athens just to have fun and make Oberon
Oberon wants this boy for himself and to once again receive the attention that is being pilfered from him by this child. To get what he wants, Oberon uses sadistic methods. He uses the love-in-idleness flower to make Titania fall in love with another creature. “And ere I take this charm from her sight/(As I can take it with another herb)/ I’ll make her render up her page to me” (2.1.183-185). In this quote Oberon is saying how he will only give Titania the antidote, and free her of her false love, if she gives him the little boy in return.
He is willing to ruin their plans and happiness to gratify the love that he feels for Hermia. Demetrius
You can tell that this backfired because Demetrius still doesn't love Helena even though she told on Hermia. This is another example of the power of love in A Midsummer Night's
In an effort to prove his “true love” for Helena, Lysander weeps for her, requesting that she “Look when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears” (3.2 124-125). Although the lovers are unaware of it, they have simply shifted from one overarching figure of power to another. Oberon’s intents are essentially different, looking to settle and calm the score between the four young people, as compared to Theseus who is simply attempting to exert his power over his daughter, but at its core, it is simply another figure of power taking control of those
Oberon witnesses the plight in which these two find themselves in, that being that Helena is deeply in love with Demetrius, but Demetrius only has eyes for another and will have nothing to do with her. It is also apparent to both the reader and more importantly, to Oberon in this particular instance that in Demetrius’ rejection of Helena, he is not kind, in fact, he is often cruel and at one point even threatens to harm her. Seeing the situation play out, Oberon decides to take pity on Helena and reveal his more benevolent side. He exclaims to himself that by the time the youths leave the “grove”, Demetrius will “seek” Helena’s “love” (Act 2, Scene 1). Yet again, Oberon’s emotions get the better of him, and cause impulsive but nonetheless benevolent
In the whole beginning of the story Demetrious despises Helena, that is until Puck puts flower juice in his eyes. Demetrius hated Helena with all his heart, but she will not leave him alone so Oberon tells Puck to help, later on Demetrius falls in love with Helena because of the spell. While running through the woods Helena and Demetrius have this conversation,” Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrious.(Shakespeare2.2.90) I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.(Shakespeare2.2.91) O, wilt thou darkling leave me? Do not so.(Shakespeare2.2.92)
Oberon accomplishes his goal with Titania without missing a beat he makes a spilt decision to drug more people. Oberon’s decision to once again use drugs on unconsenting adults some when he oversees Helena’s advances be harshly denied by Demetrius. Oberon develops a sympathetic kindness towards the intentions of young Helena. This use of drugs seems much more kind and forgivable. Oberon is essentially doing what Shakespeare as a author always does in his plays by given the young single girl the man of her desire.
He is ordered to sprinkle the magic love juice in the “Athenian man’s” eyes to fix the main characters’ love problem by Oberon. Through miscommunication and unclearness of the direction, Puck accidently puts the love juice into a different Athenian man’s eyes making the love relationship more complicated. He finds this out through Oberon when he comments, “What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken quite, and laid the love juice on some true love’s sight. Of thy misprision must perforce ensue some true love turned, and not a false turned true” (III.ii.90-94). When the fate of the lovers completely changes, he creates the main conflict in the story because without him, the plot would have ended with one single drop of love juice fixing the star-crossed-ness between the lovers. However, with the mistake that Puck makes while trying to achieve the solution it develops the conflict continuing the story line. Thus, making Puck an important character because he is the one who expands the major
Oberon, the king of the fairies, gets infatuated at Titania because she wouldn't give him a human son and wants to get revenge. Oberon sends his handyman puck to retrieve the love flower and drop some of the love potion into titania's eyes and the first thing she sees she will fall in love with. Oberon also ordered Puck to drop the love potion into Demetrius's eyes and make sure the person he sees first when he wakes up is Helena. Puck noted to look for a man dressed in Athenian clothing, but didn't know for sure who he was
In William Shakespeare’s book, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, magic is a powerful and useful tool for the characters that have the capability to use it. Some of the characters abuse the power of magic, while others are more responsible in how they use it. Oberon is one the characters that abuses the power of magic. Oberon’s magic has an immense impact on the plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. More specifically, Oberon’s magic affects his own life, the lives of other characters, and all the characters in the story experience his magic differently. We will see that even the person who has power to use the magic can become surprised by it. Magic, the ultimate supernatural power, is often unpredictable and inexplicable.
Next, the misuse of magic causes conflict among the four Athenian lovers. When Puck mistakenly applies the love potion to Lysander’s eyelids. At this point, both male characters of the main plot have fallen in love with Helena, leaving Hermia out of balance. The struggle of the four lovers is one of the more complicated conflicts in the play. The conflict could have been avoided if Puck did not misuse his magic. However, because Puck mistakenly used his magic on Lysander, conflict erupted.
Demetrius and Helena did have a past together, however now that is not the case. Demetrius wants to have nothing to do with Helena. Helena begs and pleads for his love like a dog begs and pleads for table food. While Demetrius is off searching for his true love, “He is like a magnet, he is the master the god cant cease to follow” to Hermia (Comtois
He was previously an actor (though I don’t know that one would call him that), but was a victim of one of Puck’s pranks. She is instantly smitten and Oberon is furious. He attempts to fix the problem himself by using the previously mentioned flower on Demetrius as originally planned. However, this creates a problem as now there are two men pining for Helena and Hermia is left alone. Helena believes that this is a well thought out joke between the three of them, and gets upset with Hermia. Hermia, however, is not the cause and is very upset at Helen who has “stolen” her own lover and now her betrothed, not that she cared much for him anyhow. Lysander and Demetrius plan a duel for Helena’s heart but once again fall victim to Puck. This time around, Puck rights his wrong doing by fixing Lysander. While he still has access to the flower, Oberon allows the drops of it to, once again, find his wife’s eyes. Puck removes Bottom, the “actor’s”, donkey head and sends him on his way. The Duke decides that if all are happy, Hermia may marry Lysander as she wishes. All is well and Bottom and his troupe perform a miserable play for the three pairs of