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50 Shades Of Shakespeare Essay

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Randy Vaughan
Miss Windish
English II
12 February 2017
50 Shades of Shakespeare Fairies, a donkey, and a purple flower are crucial characteristics of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This focus on a cast of characters that spend a night in the woods falling in and out of love with each other, mostly because of Oberon’s interferences. Being King of the Fairies, Oberon is a powerful figure with magical tools that include his servant Puck Goodfellow. Puck treats love as a type of revengeful game. Everyone can get this conclusion by him messing with Titania, his desire to help Helena, and his friendship with Titania. Oberon instantly and purposefully uses magic as a way to mess with Titania’s emotions. His goal is to make Titania give him the child she stole. He has Puck retrieve a flower that causes the person who receives the juice on his or her eyelids to fall in love with the next living thing he or she sees. Oberon uses laws given by a higher power (Cupid) to make moves to win the child. However, Oberon is described as being a very cruel player. When placing the juice on Titania’s eyes he says, “Wake when some vile thing is near” (2.2.40). Oberon clearly wants her to suffer. Depending upon the …show more content…

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