Summary Of A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2 Scene 1

Act 2 scene 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, sets up the third plot and third set of characters. This scene also will set the comedy scenario in the windows dealing with the lovers. The first part of the scene with Faery Queen Titania and Faery King Oberon have fought over a “changeling” that Titania has taken under her wing. Their conflict has upset the balance of the universe causing seasons to go out of sorts on Earth. This develops the theme of absurdity of love that is seen with the flower juice that Puck places on the lovers. It accents how a couple who fights disrupts the balance of the world. Oberon and Titania enter the scene having a disagreement, each are accusing one another in a form of infidelity with two mortals, Hippolyta and

She mentions that they haven’t performed their dancing since the beginning of the summer due to Oberon disturbing them by following them about the realm. She goes on about how the mortals are doing all this work for harvest, but nature has reversed the seasons causing all their work to be for not. The livestock are dying and being feasting upon by the crows.

The nine-men’s-morris is filled up with mud,

And the quaint mazes in the wanton green

For lack of tread are undistinguishable.

The human mortals want their winter here.

No night is now with hymn or carol blessed.

Titania goes on to explain how nature has made it impossible for people to go out and play in the fields due to all the mud, and the maze is overgrown due to the lack of people walking through it. Due to it not being winter for the mortals, they lack the protection that the hymns and carols that they sing. The humans are unsure of how to go about the dramatic change in the weather due to being

She paints the image of the countryside with just her description and breathes life into the with the nature by speaking with such love and nurture. The tone of the speech gives the reader and audience that is being said by a person in power and isn’t an ordinary being. The speech sets up the imbalanced love and the role of genders that is between all the lovers. The love between Oberon and Titania is unbalanced due to Oberon’s want of the Indian child outweighs his love for Titania. Titania’s desire for Bottom represents the imbalanced of nature and appearance. Titania in way fights against the natural role of woman in being subservient to men. While she is the most powerful woman in the play, she does still subservient to the rule of men. Titania’s refusal of handing over the child to Oberon is her act of defiance against her husband. She tells Oberon that he should take it easy on his demands for the boy due to the imbalance in nature. Their relationship isn’t that of being fully traditional, but Oberon believes that he should have full authority over his wife. To punish his wife, he set about forcing her to fall in love with an animal in hopes to shame her into give up the boy. She ends up falling for Bottom, and Oberon becomes successful to obtaining the boy. Either out of pity or jealousy, Oberon releases Titania from the