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Abandoned by his terrified friends, Bottom sings. His singing awakens Titania, who, under the influence of the flower's magic, falls in love with him. She takes him away to sleep in her bower. Act 3, scene 2 Robin Goodfellow reports to Oberon about Titania and Bottom.
Due to an enchantment cast by Oberon's servant Puck, Titania magically falls in love with a "rude mechanical" (a labourer), Nick Bottom the weaver, who has been given the head of a donkey by Puck, who feels it is better suited to his character.
The End of the Love Potion
Three people were affected by the flower's love potion. Titania, the original victim, fell in love with Bottom while he had the head of a donkey. Lysander, Hermia's true love, was tricked into loving Helena. And Demetrius, who didn't love Helena is bewitched into loving her.
He puts some juice in Titania's eye and she falls in love with Bottom while he has an ass' head. By the end of the play Oberon has undone all the magic and made peace with Titania. Finally, he and Titania bless the marriages of the Theseus and Hippolyta and the other lovers.
Who is Titania in love with? Despite their argument, Titania does seem to be ultimately in love with Oberon. During the play, she temporarily falls in love with Bottom because of a magical love potion that Puck puts in her eyes.
Titania wants the Indian Boy, an “irrational, unattainable” emblem of desire. Because Titania loves the boy, he becomes valuable to Oberon.
Oberon, who is quarreling with his wife, Titania, uses the flower juice on her eyes. She falls in love with Bottom, who now, thanks to Robin Goodfellow, wears an ass's head.As the lovers sleep, Robin Goodfellow restores Lysander's love for Hermia, so that now each young woman is matched with the man she loves.
The petals turn from white to purple, and the flower's juice becomes a love potion. Puck then places the potion on the sleeping eyes of Lysander, and later Demetrius which causes chaos in the forest.
In this scene, Oberon decides to play a trick on Titania by putting a love potion on her eyes that will make her fall in love with the first living thing she sees after waking. Here, he describes Titania's location to Puck before asking him to find Demetrius.
Character Info
The queen of the Fairy Forest and the wife of Oberon. She started to cheat on her husband in order to get revenge on her cheating husband. She is willing to stop if Oberon apologizes first.
Titania refuses to let the boy go because his mother was a close friend of hers, and when she died in childbirth, Titania agreed to raise her son. Hatching a plan to win the Indian boy, Oberon sends Puck in search of a flower called love-in-idleness.
After an afternoon of being pampered by Titania's fairies, Bottom falls asleep beside her. Oberon restores Titania's sight and wakes her (thank goodness). After expressing her dismay at the sight of Bottom, she reconciles with Oberon, and she ends up giving him the little Indian prince for his page.
"While our stereotypes probably still hold that most people believe women are first to fall in love, feel a greater degree of love, and express love quicker, the research does show that it's men in heterosexual relationships who are first to fall in love and convey it to their partner," Sommerfeldt explains.
He was found in the forest where he set up camp with the other actors to practice for the play. He is turned into a donkey in order to bewitch Titania into falling in love with him, an animal, to make her pay for disobeying her husband.
Puck seems to illustrate many of these contrasts within his own character: he is graceful but not so saccharine as the other fairies; as Oberon's jester, he is given to a certain coarseness, which leads him to transform Bottom's head into that of an ass merely for the sake of enjoyment.
The spell on Demetrius, however, is not removed, and the play ends with Demetrius very much in love with Helena.
Role in the play. Appearing in Act I, Scene 1 and Act IV, Scene 1, Egeus is the father of Hermia, who disapproves of Hermia and Lysander's love, appealing to Theseus to force Hermia to marry Demetrius.
The language used in this scene once again suggests that love is a matter of vision. Puck puts potion on Lysander's eyes in order to "charm" his sight. Helena wishes she could be transformed into Hermia whose eyes are "blessed and attractive" (90) and believes her own ugliness lies in her eyes.
Tie up my love's tongue. Bring him silently. You know this idea of capture we've been talking about throughout the play, here yet again Titania's way of keeping hold of the thing that she loves, having power over the thing that she loves is by capture, is by tying him up and bringing him silently.
Titania and Oberon had a very weird relationship in which they were quoted as king and queen but rarely ever had a true love relationship. Oberon and Titania were the king and queen of the fairies throughout the book A Midsummers Night's Dream.
Before the events of the play, Helena was betrothed to the nobleman Demetrius, but she was jilted when his affections turned to Hermia. Despite this, Helena's abiding love for Demetrius remains consistent throughout the play.
Finally, we learned that Oberon and Titania are both jealous of each other. Oberon is jealous that Titania is keeping the Indian changeling as her attendant when Oberon wants him for his henchman, with a changeling being a child that fairies steal and raise as their own, leaving the partners with a fairy child instead.
Titania tells a completely different story of how she got the boy. According to the Queen of the Fairies, her good friend died in childbirth and Titania has agreed to raise the boy out of love for his mother. The boy has no name given in the play and doesn't say a single word. And yet he plays a major role.
After her dancing and revelry, Titania falls asleep by the stream bank. Oberon creeps up on her and squeezes the flower's juice onto her eyelids, chanting a spell, so that Titania will fall in love with the first creature she sees upon waking. Oberon departs, and Lysander and Hermia wander into the glade.