_Benevolent
Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 248-267
"I pray thee, give it me.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows;
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:
And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes,
And make her full of hateful fantasies.
Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:
A sweet Athenian lady is in love
With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;
But do it when the next thing he espies
May be the lady: thou shalt know the man
By the Athenian garments he hath on.
Effect it with some care that he may prove
More fond on her than she upon her love:
And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow."
Before:
Oberon and Titania are fighting over an Indian kid that they both want. Titania says that she has a really close relationship with the mother of the boy. But Oberon wants the boy so he told Puck to get the love-in-idleness flower. Then they heard Helena and Demetrius’ conversation.
After:
Titania tells her fairies to gather round and sing her to sleep. After Titania falls asleep the fairies left and Oberon comes into her lair. He squeezes the love potion on her eyelids. He then whispered some things in her ears hoping she’ll wake up seeing something vile.
Oberon can be a caring and benevolent softie. He heard Helena and Demetrius’ conversation and feels bad for Helena. So he used magic powers to make sure Demetrius falls in love with Helena. In this passage, though the first part was him planning on an evil trick, but then he told Puck to find the Athenian man and apply the love juice very carefully so that the man will love Helena more than she loves him. He keeps reminding Puck to do it very carefully. He made sure that each of the young Athenian lovers is paired up with the one they love. At the end he even blesses the three couples’ marriage bed so they will have beautiful babies.
"I pray thee, give it me.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows;
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:
And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes,
And make her full of hateful fantasies.
Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:
A sweet Athenian lady is in love
With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;
But do it when the next thing he espies
May be the lady: thou shalt know the man
By the Athenian garments he hath on.
Effect it with some care that he may prove
More fond on her than she upon her love:
And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow."
Before:
Oberon and Titania are fighting over an Indian kid that they both want. Titania says that she has a really close relationship with the mother of the boy. But Oberon wants the boy so he told Puck to get the love-in-idleness flower. Then they heard Helena and Demetrius’ conversation.
After:
Titania tells her fairies to gather round and sing her to sleep. After Titania falls asleep the fairies left and Oberon comes into her lair. He squeezes the love potion on her eyelids. He then whispered some things in her ears hoping she’ll wake up seeing something vile.
Oberon can be a caring and benevolent softie. He heard Helena and Demetrius’ conversation and feels bad for Helena. So he used magic powers to make sure Demetrius falls in love with Helena. In this passage, though the first part was him planning on an evil trick, but then he told Puck to find the Athenian man and apply the love juice very carefully so that the man will love Helena more than she loves him. He keeps reminding Puck to do it very carefully. He made sure that each of the young Athenian lovers is paired up with the one they love. At the end he even blesses the three couples’ marriage bed so they will have beautiful babies.
Controlling
Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 27-34
"What thou seest when thou dost wake,
Do it for thy true-love take,
Love and languish for his sake:
Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
Pard, or boar with bristled hair,
In thy eye that shall appear
When thou wakest, it is thy dear:
Wake when some vile thing is near."
Before:
Titania gathers all fairies and sings songs for her to go to sleep. As soon as all the fairies left, Oberon went on her bed and drips the love juice on Titania’s eyelids.
After:
Lysander and Hermia are in the woods, and ready to go to sleep. Lysander wants to sleep with her but Hermia doesn’t want to be that close when they’re not married yet. Lysander said he just wants their hearts to join, he moves a little bit away from Hermia and they both fell asleep. Puck puts the love potion on Lysander eyes, thinking that he’s the Athenian man Oberon was talking about. Helena then enters; Lysander opens his eyes and fell in love with Helena.
In this passage Oberon is whispering in Titania’s ear. Saying whatever she sees the first she wakes up, think of it as her true love. Love him, even if it’s a lynx, cat, a leopard, or a bear. He wants her to wake up seeing something nasty. The reason he did that is because things didn’t go the way he wanted. He is controlling and demanding because he won’t let go of the Indian boy and wants more power. He puts the potion on Titania’s eyelids so the magic would work and it’ll keep her away from thinking about the Indian boy. A reason Oberon wants the Indian boy to be his servant might be a way to show that he has more power than Titania. He wants everything to go the way he wants.
"What thou seest when thou dost wake,
Do it for thy true-love take,
Love and languish for his sake:
Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,
Pard, or boar with bristled hair,
In thy eye that shall appear
When thou wakest, it is thy dear:
Wake when some vile thing is near."
Before:
Titania gathers all fairies and sings songs for her to go to sleep. As soon as all the fairies left, Oberon went on her bed and drips the love juice on Titania’s eyelids.
After:
Lysander and Hermia are in the woods, and ready to go to sleep. Lysander wants to sleep with her but Hermia doesn’t want to be that close when they’re not married yet. Lysander said he just wants their hearts to join, he moves a little bit away from Hermia and they both fell asleep. Puck puts the love potion on Lysander eyes, thinking that he’s the Athenian man Oberon was talking about. Helena then enters; Lysander opens his eyes and fell in love with Helena.
In this passage Oberon is whispering in Titania’s ear. Saying whatever she sees the first she wakes up, think of it as her true love. Love him, even if it’s a lynx, cat, a leopard, or a bear. He wants her to wake up seeing something nasty. The reason he did that is because things didn’t go the way he wanted. He is controlling and demanding because he won’t let go of the Indian boy and wants more power. He puts the potion on Titania’s eyelids so the magic would work and it’ll keep her away from thinking about the Indian boy. A reason Oberon wants the Indian boy to be his servant might be a way to show that he has more power than Titania. He wants everything to go the way he wants.
_Passionate
Act 4, Scene 1, Lines 44-74
"Welcome, good Robin. See'st thou this sweet sight?
Her dotage now I do begin to pity:
For, meeting her of late behind the wood,
Seeking sweet favors from this hateful fool,
I did upbraid her and fall out with her;
For she his hairy temples then had rounded
With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;
And that same dew, which sometime on the buds
Was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls,
Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes
Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her
And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,
I then did ask of her her changeling child;
Which straight she gave me and her fairy sent
To bear him to my bower in Fairyland.
And now I have the boy, I will undo
This hateful imperfection of her eyes:
And, gentle Puck, take this transformèd scalp
From off the head of this Athenian swain;
That, he awaking when the other do,
May all to Athens back again repair
And think no more of this night’s accidents
But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
But first I will release the fairy queen.
Be as thou wast wont to be;
See as thou wast wont to see:
Dian’s bud o'er Cupid’s flower
Hath such force and blessed power.
Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen."
Before:
The four young Athenians are still asleep in the forest. Titania tells Bottom to come on her bed and lie next to her. Meanwhile, Bottom is telling the fairies to scratch his back, get honey from a bee, and play music for him. The fairies left Bottom to sleep while Titania wraps her arms around him. Then they both fell asleep, and Oberon enters.
After:
Oberon squeezes the other juice on Titania for releasing the spell. Titania wakes up and tells Oberon that she had the weirdest dream ever; she was in love with an ass. Oberon tells Puck to take off Bottom’s donkey head and when Bottom wakes up, everything will just be a dream.
Oberon is passionate because he still loves Titania. He feels sorry for Titania for being so infatuated to Bottom (or an ass). Titania would beg nicely when Oberon taunted her, and when he asked for the Indian child Titania said yes right away and brought the child back his home in Fairyland. Now that Oberon’s got the Indian kid, he’ll undo her spell and make things right again. Oberon told Puck to change Bottom back and make him think it was just a dream. But he has to undo his queen’s spell first. He thinks the trick he did was a bit over. He and Titania are friends and lovers again, and they’ll go to Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding and blesses them together.
"Welcome, good Robin. See'st thou this sweet sight?
Her dotage now I do begin to pity:
For, meeting her of late behind the wood,
Seeking sweet favors from this hateful fool,
I did upbraid her and fall out with her;
For she his hairy temples then had rounded
With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;
And that same dew, which sometime on the buds
Was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls,
Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes
Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her
And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,
I then did ask of her her changeling child;
Which straight she gave me and her fairy sent
To bear him to my bower in Fairyland.
And now I have the boy, I will undo
This hateful imperfection of her eyes:
And, gentle Puck, take this transformèd scalp
From off the head of this Athenian swain;
That, he awaking when the other do,
May all to Athens back again repair
And think no more of this night’s accidents
But as the fierce vexation of a dream.
But first I will release the fairy queen.
Be as thou wast wont to be;
See as thou wast wont to see:
Dian’s bud o'er Cupid’s flower
Hath such force and blessed power.
Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen."
Before:
The four young Athenians are still asleep in the forest. Titania tells Bottom to come on her bed and lie next to her. Meanwhile, Bottom is telling the fairies to scratch his back, get honey from a bee, and play music for him. The fairies left Bottom to sleep while Titania wraps her arms around him. Then they both fell asleep, and Oberon enters.
After:
Oberon squeezes the other juice on Titania for releasing the spell. Titania wakes up and tells Oberon that she had the weirdest dream ever; she was in love with an ass. Oberon tells Puck to take off Bottom’s donkey head and when Bottom wakes up, everything will just be a dream.
Oberon is passionate because he still loves Titania. He feels sorry for Titania for being so infatuated to Bottom (or an ass). Titania would beg nicely when Oberon taunted her, and when he asked for the Indian child Titania said yes right away and brought the child back his home in Fairyland. Now that Oberon’s got the Indian kid, he’ll undo her spell and make things right again. Oberon told Puck to change Bottom back and make him think it was just a dream. But he has to undo his queen’s spell first. He thinks the trick he did was a bit over. He and Titania are friends and lovers again, and they’ll go to Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding and blesses them together.