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Self Control In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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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. …show more content…

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

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In Act 2, Oberon puts a love potion on Titania as a trick to make her fall in love with a beast. “I will place the pollen from the flowers loin Titania's eyelids so that the next thing she sees- be it lion, bear, wolf, or bull- she will fall madly in love with, and I will get that boy. ”(5) Oberon controls Titaina with a love potion to make her fall in love with a hideous beast because he is angry that she won't give him the little boy. In anger he is controlling his wife to get what he wants.

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Again they are deliriously in love because of the love drug. In the beginning of the play neither of the males want anything to do with Helena, she is blindly chasing after Demetrius desperate for his attention, but he brushes her off. Oberon orders puck to put the spell on Demetrius. “Thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on.” (II, i ln 42 & 43)

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