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Puck happily admits it, and brags a while about his mischief. Act 2 introduces the fairies and the supernatural. The fight between Oberon and Titania indicates that the themes of love and battle between the sexes are also at play in the fairy world. The opening of the scene also establishes Puck as mischievous.
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A type of fairy called a "puck," Puck is Oberon's faithful...
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Puck uses his magic to fulfill Oberon's plan to ensure a...
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The king is having a party here tonight. Be careful that the...
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Oberon then sneaks up to the sleeping Titania and drops the...
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Analysis. Act II, scene ii introduces the plot device of the love potion, which Shakespeare uses to explore the comic possibilities inherent in the motif of love out of balance. Oberon’s meddling in the affairs of humans further disrupts the love equilibrium, and the love potion symbolizes the fact that the lovers themselves will not reason ...
Their bickering begins. Each accuses the other of having had affairs, and Titania says Oberon's persecution of her has caused the current chaos in the world: The rivers are flooding, the corn is rotting, and people are plagued by "rheumatic" diseases. Oberon blames Titania; if she would simply relinquish the Indian boy, peace would be restored.
Oberon. Oberon is the King of the Fairies and husband to Titania. Because he acts in such contradictory ways throughout the play, Oberon’s intentions toward others seem more dependent on his whim than any sense of moral code. He treats the young Athenian lovers with care as he acts as a benevolent (though meddling) matchmaker, but he ...
Summary: Act II, scene i. In the forest, two fairies, one a servant of Titania, the other a servant of Oberon, meet by chance in a glade. Oberon’s servant tells Titania’s to be sure to keep Titania out of Oberon’s sight, for the two are very angry with each other. Titania, he says, has taken a little Indian prince as her attendant, and ...
Analysis. That night in the woods, Titania 's fairy followers sing her to sleep in a beautiful glade. Oberon then sneaks past the guard protecting her, and drops the juice on her sleeping eyelids. He hopes that when she wakes the first living thing she sees will be utterly vile, and exits.
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OBERON. [Squeezing flower juice into DEMETRIUS ’s eyes] Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid’s archery, Sink in apple of his eye. When his love he doth espy, Let her shine as gloriously As the Venus of the sky. When thou wakest, if she be by, Beg of her for remedy. OBERON.
