Self Control In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Obsessive would describe some people in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Those people show how when there is lack of self-control, problems may arise. Helena, throughout the entire story, had always been very obsessive over Demetrius. Helena used to be Demetrius’s fiance but he left her to go after Hermia. She couldn’t accept the fact that he didn’t like her, and she would take any attention from him, even if that means being treated like a dog. Helena even asked him, “Used me but as your spaniel-spurn me, strike me, neglect me, lose me, only give me leave, unworthy as I am, to follow you” (Shakespeare 2. 1. 202-207). The fairy king thought he should intervene and decided to put love potion into Demetrius’s eyes and it got put in Lysander’s eyes by mistake. Helena’s Lack of self-control led to Lysander accidentally getting love-potion in his eyes from Robin who worked for Oberon, the fairy king.

He wanted the boy for his travels and would not give up on having him. Since Titania would not give up the boy, Oberon made his own plan to get the boy, he said “ Having once this juice, I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep and drop the liquor of it in her eyes. The next thing then she waking looks upon, she shall pursue it with the soul of love. I’ll make her render up her page to me” (Shakespeare 2.1.177-185). Oberon put the love potion in her eyes so he could trick her into giving him the boy.His intervention led to Titania being madly in love with Nick Bottom, who had the head of a donkey and nearly missed his