Titania In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Jacob Buffington
Miss Windish
English II
February 6, 2017
50 Shades of Titania Have you ever fallen in love with a donkey headed actor? Well I know a character who has. Titania in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream has. Titania and her husband Oberon have the strongest love out of all of the fairies. But due to the fact that they kidnapped a child and both want something different from it their love was close to failing. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a very popular story that has been redone in many ways. Titania is a fairy who happens to be married to the king of the fairies. She has mixed views on love, however throughout the story her love interests are often changed. Some facts that prove her views are mixed would be her “fostering of a child”, her broken marriage, and she agrees to love Oberon in the end. First of all she is taking in this human child because she was acquainted with it’s deceased mother (2:1). She will be raising the child for her own love of the deceased mother. Titania also has such a commitment to this child that she is defending her plans to raise it up right when her husband, Oberon, states that he wishes to raise …show more content…

Both of the fairies in the couple have been messing around with some humans. This has been going on for a while. Once the child is dragged into the situation everything gets worse. Oberon and Titania argue a lot. They also call eachother out about having affairs with humans. The couple also argue very often about who will raise the baby. Things were going so bad that Oberon poisoned Titania so she would fall in love with someone else. She fell in love with a man with the head of a donkey/mule. Oberon then started to make fun of her and roast her. However Oberon started to feel bad for her and he kindly decided to give her an antidote that would make her not in love with the donkey headed

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