Fairies In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, is a comedy that reveals the challenging ways of love. Bottom explains to Titania that "reason and love keep little company together now-a-days " (Act 3 Scene 1). This quote explains the characters' actions throughout the course of the play. The characters' actions are not logical to outsiders. They are also not natural because of the magic that is present by the fairies. Immediately as the play begins to unfold, readers learn of Egeus's refusal to accept his daughter, Hermia, love with Lysander. Egues explains to Lysander that "[Hermia] is [his], and with all of [his] right of her [he] do estate unto Demetrius" (Act 1 Scene 1). This means that he gives permission for his daughter…show more content…
Her father then gives Hermia an ultimatum. Her choices are "either [marry] this gentleman” that he wants or “death or to abjure for ever the society of men" (Act 1 Scene 1). To summarize, this means Hermia must marry Demetrius or else she will face death or the nunnery. To Theseus, he feels that it is only logical for Hermia to marry Demetrius, but Hermia refuses. She said, "So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will my virgin patent up unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke my soul consents not to give sovereignty.” (Act 1 Scene 1). Although it would be reasonable for her to marry Demetrius, she continues to follow her heart and states she rather die and be a nun than to not marry her true love. She also states that she refuses to give her virginity away…show more content…
To begin, Egeus accused Lysander of "bewitch'[ing] the bosom of my child" (Act 1 Scene 1). Egeus could not believe that his daughter could be in love with someone her father does not approve of, henceforth, he assumes magic is the reason for this. As the play progresses, readers learn of the King of Fairies, Oberon. Oberon wants to have possession of an Indian boy that his wife has. But his wife,Titania, refuses to give away her boy, and this infuriates Oberon. This causes him to seek revenge. He explains to another fairy that he “mark'd where the bolt of Cupid fell: it fell upon a little western flower" (Act 2 Scene 1). He orders Puck to "fetch [him] that flower” because he is going to put "the juice of it on sleeping eye-lids" (Act 2 Scene 1). This “will make man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees” (Act 2 Scene 1). In Oberon's soliloquy, he reveals his master plan. He shares that he will put the magic juice on Titania and make her fall in love with a beast. Then using another plant, he will remove the magic, and make "her render up her page to [him]” (Act 2 Scene 1). Moreover, with the use of magic flowers, Oberon plans to make his wife fall in love with first a beast, and then make her surrender the indian boy to him. Oberon then decides that he will also use the magic flower juice on Demetrius in order to make him fall in love with Helena. Puck was instructed to but the juice on Demetruis,
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