Titania In A Midsummer Night's Dream

MSND Literary Analysis Essay

In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, one of Shakespeare’s many plays, masterful educational artisans have disputed over whether the main element of this book is based on love being an essence of mysticality, or if it is an altered state of the human mind. Contained within the deep, dark chasms of this story, Puck is the mischievous fairy in the story, and is the main “doer” of deeds in this play, and most of what he does is what makes him such a comical character. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is unmistakably explaining to whoever reading it is that the book describes love as only a case of enchantment, or temporary mental alteration.

Throughout the body of the story, Shakespeare playfully hints through many different

ways how the “love” represented in this story is only a distorted type of love, or more correctly put, infatuation. As in the case of Lysander, he originally loved Helena, and she loved Lysander reciprocally. However, when Oberon sent Puck on a mission to drug Demetrius, he misjudged, and drugged Lysander. At first, as mentioned earlier, Lysander and Hermia loved each other, but after the doses were delivered, their affections were turned elsewhere. This is an exquisite moment to mention what Lysander himself said about love: “The course of true love never did run smooth!”

Titania is a strong-willed fairy, is attended to by many other fairies, and is in control of many things, even more so than Oberon at times.

However, she often brawls with her husband Oberon, who is almost as insistently minded as she is, but she usually gets her way over Oberon’s. In this play, Titania is not so impressed with Oberon, and is keeping an indian changeling boy in her clutches in dire refusal due to her hate for him. This refusal to give Oberon the indian changeling boy resulted in ordering Puck to go and drug Titania’s eyes, in bitter desire that when she waketh, the first living creature she sees she will fall in love with. This “ghastly beast” happens to Bottom, in his transformed state. Near the end of the story, however, Puck drugs Titania’s eyes to wake up and see Oberon, and all is clarified with them in the end.

Demetrius is one of the sturdy young men in this play, is a young Athenian fellow who is engaged to a youthful Athenian girl, who is Hermia. Demetrius also thought that Hermia was attractive, but Hermia prefers Lysander. Throughout the story, Demetrius continues to pursue Hermia. As with Helena, Demetrius bitterly rejected her for the main section of the play, but all in well time Puck juices his eyes, after having one failed attempt, all the lovers are successfully consolidated and paired

correctly.

Bringing this essay to an end, as said above, the very real truth of today is that true love never does run smooth, and that God is the ultimate decider.