Control In A Midsummer Night's Dream

If someone can control you, chaos and disaster can break out, at least that is what happened in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The play by William Shakespeare, is a comedy that centers on Hermia, who develops feelings for Lysander, and her father, Egeus, who disapproves of the relationship and wants her to wed Demetrius. He offers her three options which she disagrees with, so she decides to flee to live with the aunt of Lysander so they can get married outside of Athens. However, she first tells Helena, her best friend, who is envious of her since she wants to marry Demetrius, but Demetrius prefers Hermia. Helena then snitches to Demetrius believing he would fall in love with her for her noble act. While all this is going down, the fairy king,

Puck, Oberon's jester, tricks Demetrius and Lysander into thinking they are talking and insulting one another but in reality, are talking to him. Puck disguised as Lysander says, “Ho, ho, ho! Coward, why com’st thou not?” (3.2.448). Puck makes Demetrius and Lysander tired out, because they think they are running after one another. As they fall asleep Puck then fixes his mistake. His mistake was anointing Lysander instead of Demetrius. A group of workmen were practicing a play for the duke and duchess of Athens's wedding, Puck then decided to trick them by turning Bottom, an actor in the play for the duke’s wedding, into an ass. Bottom then says, “You see an ass-head of your own, do you?”(3.1.118-119). Puck turns Bottom so that Oberon’s wife, the fairy queen, Titania, falls in love with him. He does this so that Oberon can carry out his plans to steal the little Indian boy, Titania’s friend's son. Oberon wants to steal the Indian boy to use him as his servant but Titania does not want to, so Oberon found a way in doing so. In the end, the characters did not realize what had happened because they believed Puck when he was tricking

Egeus, who is Hermia’s father, wants her to get married to a man named Demetrius. Egeus then tells her she has three choices, “Either to die the death or to abjure/Forever the society of men '' (1.1.67-68). Due to Egeus’s behavior, Hermia was emotionally controlled until she had enough of it and planned on fleeing with her lover, Lysander. Another possessive person is Oberon, Oberon controlled his wife, Titania, by using the “love and idleness flower” on her to make her fall in love with ass-headed Bottom. Titania waking up from her sleep says, “What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed” (3.1.131). Once the flower wears off, Titania will not remember what has happened and Oberon’s plans will succeed. Both characters have other people trying to control their lives, making it hard for them to make their own