“The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid will make or man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees,” said William Shakespeare. This quote explains why the love potion is used, which is an important part of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (AMSND) a play by Shakespeare. The play begins when Oberon and Titania, two fairies in a relationship, fighting over an Indian boy. Puck, Oberon’s fairy helper, decided to bring Oberon a flower that’ll make anyone fall in love. Puck and Oberon used the flower’s potion on Titania to force her into giving up the Indian boy and also on the four lovers. The play starts out with Lysander and Demetrius fighting over Hermia, while Helena chases after Demetrius, but Puck and Oberon changed that up by using the flower’s potion. The characters in AMSND struggled making decisions due to not realizing what occurred in reality and what occurred in dreams. Because the love potion was used, the characters lose sight of …show more content…
Oberon wanted to get revenge from Titania for not giving him the Indian boy, so Oberon decided to put a potion on Titania, while she was sleeping, which made her fall in love with the first person she sees, “Wake when some vile thing is near” (2.2). After waking up, Titania didn’t care about the Indian boy anymore. This destroyed her knowledge of what is reality and what is a dream. Oberon wanted her to fall in love with an animal, so that she can beg him to remove the potion. He planned to not remove the potion until she gives him the Indian boy,”Titania wakes and straightway loves an ass” (3.2) Oberon said. Waking up and falling in love with a donkey showed that Titania is a whole new person. She gave up the Indian boy in a blink of an eye. All she cared about is the donkey (Bottom). Titania cared so much about the donkey, that she ordered her fairies to do favors for
Love, lust and infatuation all beguile the senses of the characters in this dreamy and whimsical work of Shakespeare, and leads them to act in outlandish ways, which throughly amuses the reader. True love does prevail in the end for Hermia and Lysander, and the initial charm of infatuation ends up proving to have happy consequence for Helena and Demetrius as well. Even when at first the reader thinks that, in theory, the effects the potion will wear off and Lysander will once again reject Helena, Oberon places a blessings on all the couples that they should live happily ever after.
Oberon is making a spectacle of Titania and Bottom. It is ridiculous that she is in love with him because he is from such a lower class than her, he is human and she is a fairy, and he has the head of an ass. She is also a queen and he is an uneducated working man and a match like this would never happen. Bottom has such a problem with language.
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream control is unpredictable. In act two scene two Oberon tells Puck to put the flower nectar in Demetrius’s eyes and he messes up and puts it in Lysander's eyes. In the stage directions it says “ He anoints Lysander’s eyes with nectar.” (2.2.85). This shows that Puck messes up Oberon’s directions and this leads to a love triangle between Lysander, Helena , and Demetrius.
What is love? Love is a very powerful emotion! Love is something that can come at any time in your life. It can appear in any way, shape, or form. In the famous play “Midsummer Night's Dream,” by William Shakespeare, love is a major theme that affects many people and causes many challenges. In order for love to conquer these challenges one needs to stay true to their love, they may need the help of some magic, and must be persistent.
The fairy world then comes into contact with the world of the young lovers. Mischievous Puck causes further complications when he uses magic to anoint a young Athenian male’s eyes, who is in fact the wrong Athenian that Oberon assigned Puck. Puck misuses magic when he plays a silly prank on Bottom who is one of the Mechanicals, by giving Bottom a head of an ass. Strangely Titania falls in love with the creature that Puck has created. This results in Oberon becoming extreamly fu...
Love is a powerful emotion, capable of turning reasonable people into fools. Out of love, ridiculous emotions arise, like jealousy and desperation. Love can shield us from the truth, narrowing a perspective to solely what the lover wants to see. Though beautiful and inspiring when requited, a love unreturned can be devastating and maddening. In his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare comically explores the flaws and suffering of lovers. Four young Athenians: Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, and Helena, are confronted by love’s challenge, one that becomes increasingly difficult with the interference of the fairy world. Through specific word choice and word order, a struggle between lovers is revealed throughout the play. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses descriptive diction to emphasize the impact love has on reality and one’s own rationality, and how society’s desperate pursuit to find love can turn even strong individuals into fools.
Even when he did put the love juice into the right people's eyes, they still fell in love with the wrong people sometimes. The first example of this mistake of Puck's is where he puts the love juice in Lysander's eyes, mistaking him for Demetrius. Oberon tells Puck to put the love juice in the eyes of an Athenian man, Demetrius, and to make sure that the first thing he sees after this is the woman whom he hates, but who loves him so much, Helena. Puck ends up finding Lysander and Hermia, lovers, sleeping on the forest floor. He puts the love juice in Lysander's eyes and leaves.
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.
...uch like Helena, who overlooks Demetrius’ shortcomings, Titania looks past Bottom’s very apparent ignorance out of love.
For Example, Oberon states, “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...she shall pursue it with the soul of love and ere I take this charm from off her sight… I’ll make her ender up her page to me.” (II, i, 77-87) analysis and restatement! I know that love in the book, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and in the real world (in general) is hard. We argue, fight and hate but in the end we learn to forgive and love. For example, Oberon states, “sound music. Come, my queen, take hands with me, and rock the ground whereon these sleepers be…(Titania says) “come, my lord, and in our flight tell me how it came this night that I sleeping here was found with these mortals on the ground.” (IV, i, 83-99) analysis and
The love-in-idleness flower nectar plays a big part in demonstrating the unpredictability of love, since “[t]he juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid / Will make or man or woman madly dote” (II:i:155-156) This potion depicts the whole love-at-first-sight trope, and shows how volatile people are when it comes to love, especially when it’s merely superficial. Titania’s condition was caused by Oberon, who might have been slightly jealous of Theseus. Love caused Oberon to do things that Titania would probably have never predicted he would do, and Titania falling in love with a creature like Bottom could never have been planned. She clearly did not believe that such a thing could have happened, as she says, “Methought I was enamored of an ass” (IV:i:60) - and yet that is exactly what happened.
However, the ideal relationships are not immune to experiencing unharmonious periods. Despite this, the ideal couples eventually found harmony which allowed them to experience a joyous ending. Lysander and Hermia have a harmonious relationship in that they display similar desires and mindsets. In the beginning, after declaring their love for one another Lysander and Hermia devise a plan to run away and elope (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1.1.156-178). Even when they are not of the same mindset Hermia and Lysander find an amicable solution. After becoming lost in the forest, Lysander’s desire is for them to sleep together, Hermia refuses for fear of the disgrace that would be placed upon her if for some reason they did not become married. Even though Lysander is a reluctant he respects her wishes (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.1.47-67). On the other hand, the relationship between Oberon and Titania in spite of being plagued by dysfunction comes to a harmonious agreement. At the beginning Titania and Oberon are quarreling over the control of an Indian changeling boy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.1.18-31). While under the influence of an enchantment that Oberon had placed on her Titania relinquishes the control of the changeling boy to Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4.1.56-60). After the enchantment is removed from her Titania no longer has feelings of defiance toward Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s
The magic of Puck changes the head of Bottom into that of a donkey. Puck’s own use magic adds more humor to the already comical and over-confident character of Bottom. Puck’s magic also creates a great deal of humor in the dealings of Bottom and Titania. The contrasted humor is clearly shown as Titania weaves flowers into the hair of Bottom’s donkey like head. Titania is a beautiful and delicate creature, while Bottom is completely grotesque. Magic creates an unreal image of Bottom, which in turn creates a comical contrast between Bottom and Titania. As part of the already comical sub-plot, Bottom’s altering through magic adds even more humor to the overall play.
Her feelings of tender love were born of a solemn vow she made to the child’s mother upon her deathbed to, “…rear up her boy and for her sake, I shall not part with him,” (Shakespeare, 1610-11/2014). She protects the child from King Oberon, who wishes to make him his, “henchman,” (Shakespeare, 1610-11/2014). Using his magical powers, King Oberon acts upon his jealousy and takes measures to sever Titania’s guardianship over the child. Uttering his enchantment as he squeezed the juice of a flower onto her eyelids (Bevington, 2014), “What thou see’st when thou dost wake, do It for thy true love take. Love and languish for his sake.
He is aware that Cupid hit a certain flower petal with his arrow and that if the juice of the flower is squeezed in an individual’s eyelids while he or she is sleeping, then that person awakes, he or she will fall in love with the person he/she sees first. Oberon requests Puck to bring him the flower. His plan is that, when Titania is distracted with love feelings over any creature she sees, he can more easily persuade her to hand over the boy. In fact, his trick also creates a self-conflict within Titania since she falls in love with the man who, due to Puck’s trick, has a donkey 's head. Then, we observe that at this moment, the magic created conflict within the story line. Nevertheless, when Oberon has secured the boy, he applies the supernatural or magic, to restore Titania again and their quarrel comes to an end, the magic has successfully recovered the married couple’s