Blog #3- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II
Act II: Oberon and Titania OR Puck- Choose one set of bulleted questions and
respond. Use cited evidence to build a
stronger response.
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Option 1- Oberon
and Titania
- · Why are Oberon and Titania fighting?
- · How is their fighting influencing the human world?
- · How does Oberon plan to get what he wants from Titania? Use evidence from the text to support your explanation.
Option 2- Puck
- · Describe the character of Puck (Robin Goodfellow). Use evidence from the text to support your description.
- · What are three tricks that Puck has played on humans?
Oberon and Titania are fighting over who will keep the Indian baby boy. Oberon wants the boy to be apart of his court but Titania refuses him because she sees the baby as her child. Their fighting is influencing the human world badly because it is causing the winter to be harsh and for the summer never to come, leaving the world in a dark cold. Oberon plans to put a love spell upon Titania's eyes while she sleeps, so that the first person she sees upon waking up she will fall madly in love with. In Act 2, Scene 1, Oberon tells Robin Good-fellow "When i have the juice of that flower, i'll trickle some drops into Titania's eyes and she'll fall madly in love with the first thing she see's...", then he sends Robin to gather the juice so he may sprinkle it into Titania's eyes. C.Beale 5th
ReplyDeleteHow do you think that making her fall in love with someone other than him is revenge? It sounds to me that that would hurt Oberon in the long run more than Tatania. Just a thought. (M. McAlister 5th)
DeleteI agree with you saying it was revenge. From my understanding, Oberon and Titania had each had multiple affairs while married to each other, so for her to fall in love with someone else wouldn't have really affected him in my opinion. (1M. Reyome)
DeleteThe gods are known to continually cheat on their spouses so it's not a surprise that Titania would associate herself with other men. I agree with Madison about the fact that the cheating wouldn't have effected Oberion simply because he was used to her cheating. He was also only involved in this whole situation for his own selfish needs.
DeleteIn Act II Tatania and Oberon (King and Queen of the fairies) are fighting over who will keep and raise the changeling Indian boy. While Oberon wishes to put him on the court and make him a knight, Tatania wants to keep him because she feels as if he is her child. Due to all of this fighting, it is delaying the summer and making the winter extremely harsh. In order to get revenge on Tatania, Oberon instructs Puck to go get a special flower. The juice from this flower, when placed on one's eyes cause them to fall in love with the next person or creature they see. (M. McAlister 5th)
ReplyDeleteI fully agree with you. I feel like Tatania connected to the little Indian boy so much because she knew what he went through. She wanted to raise him like her own because he did not have a mother of his own. (7j.Shillow)
DeleteI feel like Tatania connecting with the young boy was good. She could become a mother figure and not have him be thrown into fighting. Tatania knew the little boy well enough to become a mother figure. (E.Adkins 6th)
DeleteTitania, the fairy queen, and Oberon, the king of the fairies, have differences in the book. They are first seen to be upset with each other in Act 2, Scene 1. This is over an Indian prince that lost his mother from child birth. Because Titania had a good relationship with the boy's mother, she kidnapped him when his mother passed. However, what people wanted to do with the boy was quite the opposite. Oberon wanted to keep the Indian boy as one of his soldiers basically, while Titania wants to keep him to be with the fairies. They are also upset with each other because of their recent parting, as they used to be a couple. Their fighting has influenced the world by making the seasons in the world switch and causing the world to be colder than usual, as stated in Act 2, Scene 1, "Cold frosts spread over the red roses, and the icy winter wears a crown of sweet summer flowers as some sick joke." Whenever Oberon comes around Titania and her fairies, he interrupts the dances they try to have, which upsets the environment. Fog has rose and rivers have flooded, which causes the farmlands to be destroyed and the livestock to be killed. Diseases have started spreading throughout the world to the human mortals. While everyone is in the forest, including Oberon and Titania, Oberon gets a plan to sprinkle a potion from a flower. This flower has the power to make you fall in love with the first person you see. Oberon gets the idea to put some on Titania's eyes while she is sleeping, and hoping to get the child while she's still under the spell. "even if it's a lion, a bear, a wolf, a bull, a monkey, or an ape." (Shakespeare 2.1) He plans on getting the child no matter the circumstances, even if it causes Titania to fall in love with an animal. Oberon sends Robin to fetch the flower, which he receives very quickly, and sooner than later, she has fallen in love with Bottom.
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Puck is a very mischievous character. He follows Oberon's orders to play tricks on humans but he messes up. Oberon told him to put the juice on Demetrius' eyes but instead he puts in on Lysander's eyes. Later on Oberon berates him so goes and tries to correct his mistake by putting juice of Demetrius' eyes. However, this makes it worse as now both Lysander and Demetrius desire Helena. This infuriates Hermia, who now thinks that Helena betrayed her. Puck also played a trick on Bottom by giving him an ass' head. He then puts the juice on Titania's eyes which leads to Bottom becoming the apple of her eye. "My mistress with a monster is in love, " this shows betrayal to Titania as it's his mistress but he plays a terrible trick on her. This just enhances his mischievous character. Also when Oberon told him to reverse the trick, he objected by saying that it was too funny to reverse.
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Oberon and Titania are fighting because Titania won’t give Oberon the changeling (basically a child switched at birth.) The changeling was the son of an Indian king and Oberon wants the changeling to be his knight and henchman.
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Oberon and Tatania are fighting over who will keep the little boy. This boy is seen as Tatania's child while Oberon wants this child as part of his court. This child was given to Tatania by a woman who can not raise him. This fight between them impacts the seasons of the human world. The winter season will be very harsh and the world will be cold, because the seasons will be off balanced. One night, Oberon puts a love potion in Tatania's eyes while she is sleeping. Whoever receives this potion will fall in love with anything they first see. He tells Robin Good Fellow about his plan and sends him to fulfill Oberon's plan. ( B. Holland 7th)
ReplyDeleteOberon and Titania are fighting over who gets to keep the little Indian boy. Oberon wants to raise him on the court and make him a knight, while Titania wants to raise him as if her were her own son. This fighting is affecting the human world by making the winter longer and harsh, and delaying summer. To get his revenge on Titania, Oberon orders Puck to go get a special flower from the woods. This flower has a special juice that will make someone fall in love with the first living being they see after having it sprinkled on their eyelids. Once Puck gets the flower, Oberon instructs him to sprinkle it over Titania's eyes while she was sleeping in the woods, in hopes she'd fall in love with an animal. (1M. Reyome)
ReplyDeleteOberon and Titania are the King and Queen of the Fairies who are fighting over a young Indian boy. Titania wishes to keep the boy and raise him as her own due the bond she had with his mother who died. Oberon wishes to train the boy to become a knight and serve him. Their arguing causes many problems to arise in the mortal world such as destroyed crops and farm animals, the spread of disease, extensive flooding, and an extended summer. In Act Two, Scene One, Titania says, "As in revenge, have sucked from the sea contagious fogs, which falling in the land have made every pelting river so proud that they have overborne their continents. The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain, the ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn hath rotted...the human mortals want their winter here...the moon, the governess of floods, pale in her anger, washes all the air, that rheumatic diseases do abound." This excerpt is describing how her and her husband's disputes have effected the mortal world. Oberon plans to steal the child and put an end to all this by using a magical love flower to get to Titania to fall in love with someone else to distract her from the child. In Act Two, Scene One, Oberon says, "And with this juice of this I'll streak her eyes and make her full of hateful fantasies," to his servant Puck, describing how he will gain control of Titania. (H. Bryant 6th)
ReplyDeletePuck, so far, seems to be a very mischievous character. He describes playing tricks on many humans, including "...pour(ing) the ale..." (II.i. p.13) on a woman in a bar. He laughs at the expense of others, as noted when he says "...Then slip I from her bum, down topples she, and tailor cries, and falls into a cough; and then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh..." (II.i. p.14). Puck, later in the play, "accidentally" gives the love potion to the wrong people and then brings animals or enemies together to fall into a fake love. He laughs when he first messes up the love potion, but pretends to be somber about the mix up when confronted by the fairy king. (T.Johnson. 7th).
ReplyDeletePuck( Robin Goodfellow) is an ancient figure in the English mythology that seems to be a very smart mischievous elf. He likes to pull pranks but nothing to serious to cause harm. Puck doesn't just irritate people a negative way, he also can be very sweet and helpful . After transforming Bottom's head into that of an "ass," he gleefully declares "My mistress with a monster is in love" (3.2.6). And because of his fun spirit he is considered the heart and soul of the play.SBrown7th
ReplyDeleteI also believe that Puck is kind at heart. This is shown when he purposefully leaves Demetrius under the love potion and in love with Helena at the end of the play. Because Puck did this, every character was allowed a happy ending, which wouldn't have happened otherwise. (T. Johnson 7th).
DeleteIn act 2 Oberon and Titania are fighting over who will keep a baby boy. Oberon wants to keep the boy as one of his henchmen but Titania feels she needs to keep the boy because she feels as it is her child to raise because his mother was one of her worshippers. Oberon wants to get revenge on Titania by making Puck to get a flower with juices that, when placed on ones eyes, makes them fall in love with the next thing they see. (6 E. Adkins)
ReplyDeleteOberon and Titania are fighting over the possession of a little boy that they both love and want to raise. Titania thinks she deserves to be his guardian because his mother and her had a good relationship, Oberon just wants him for selfish reasons. Their fighting influenced the human world by changing the seasons too early or delaying it's natural occurrences. Oberon says to Puck, "Bring me that flower. I showed it to you once. If its juice is put on someone’s eyelids while they’re asleep, that person will fall in love with the next living creature he or she sees. Bring me this plant, and get back here before the sea monster has time to swim three miles." What he plans is to get puck to place the potion in time for her to wake up and fall in love with an ugly creature. (1 M.Meadows)
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