‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is one of many comedic plays written by Shakespeare in the mid 1950’s. Shakespeare creatively creates a link between fantasy and reality by running to different stories in parallel, one of a complicated love square and the other of the unstable relationship between the King and Queen of fairies (Titania and Oberon). Shakespeare also includes some elements of class into the play by having it focused around the aristocrats and the working class men. This allows the play to explore so many different themes. In this section we have a conversation between Titania and Oberon. There are many elements of this passage that connect to the other characters in the play. In this passage Titania and oberon are having an argument …show more content…
They’ve been married for a while now and have come to Athens to witness and bless the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. They are living in the woods (a place that is often associated with evil and uncertainty) and the recently they have been fighting a lot, as Puck suggests when he says “But they do square, that all their elves for fear’’, due to Titania’s decision to adopt a little indian boy. Oberon’s argument is that she stole this boy from the Indian king and therefore she should hand him over to Oberon to become one of his henchmen. On the other hand Titania’s reasons for keeping the boy are more personal. One of her priestesses, died while giving birth and so Titania decided to raise this boy as if he were her own as she and this woman spent a lot of time together. This is a very ironic passage as the cause of the fight is caused by such an insignificant character to the play that he doesn't even have a name. Infact Puck addresses this boy as a “changeling boy”- this is used to refer to the ugly child fairies that they leave behind. This nameless boy caused cosmic consequences such as “cold frosts over red roses” because of the argument between the fairies that control