The soliloquy above fits the full definition of a soliloquy in many ways. The context makes sense for a soliloquy as shows her thoughts. Furthermore, it also fulfills the technical requirements of a soliloquy. One way it is a soliloquy is that there is a textual context that makes sense for it. Some of this context comes directly from the text and some of it doesn’t but is rather inferred, giving the feeling of reflection rather than blabber. For instance in the soliloquy, it says “Shame on he who lies and makes fictitious ties/ When his affairs tell more stories and truths/ Then mine could if they were stretched for miles./ I met with Theseus as friends only/ Times matching coincidentally with/ His many divorces, not of my doing”. This is elaborating on the content in the banter between Oberon and Titania when in response to …show more content…
63). Titania retorted back with “ Then I must be thy lady”(II.i. 65) and started stating what Oberon had been doing all day. The stories that she tells of his activities make him out to be an very unfaithful character and as he does not object, it seems as though it is true. Instead of objecting, Oberon volleys back this remark, and accuses Titania of having an affair of her own with Theseus, the Athenian lord, and enticing him away from each of his wives in turn. However, Titania states that “These are the forgeries of jealousy:...” implying that these accusations are fake. So in the soliloquy above she explains that it really was false and that “I met with Theseus as friends only./ Times matching coincidentally with/ His many divorces, not of my doing”. Furthermore, in the soliloquy above, Titania laments on the state of nature. In actual MND book, Titania described the chaos going on in the mortal world where the consequences of their actions (not following through with rituals) are affecting everyone. This is more of a summary of what she had said earlier in act II Scene i lines 82-114 so that it is