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Who Is Prospero In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Oberon is a fairy king who lives in a forest nearby Athens. He helped Helena with her problems of love, but he also accidentally caused Lysander to love Helena briefly. It really wasn’t his fault, but his sprite’s fault, Puck. Oberon also used the love magic to make Titania, his wife and the fairy queen, love a beast with a donkey’s head but a human’s body, and made her give up a changeling child they were fighting over. Although Oberon is mischievous, after he gets what he wants he cleans up his mess. At the end of the story, Titania and him watch the mixed up couples of Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius resolve their problems. Prospero is a man who was once a duke, but was cast out onto an island by his brother, who wanted the dukedom …show more content…

Oberon is a fairy, but Prospero is a simple human. Oberon influences many people by the work of a single flower, but Prospero uses different kinds of magic to do his work for him. If Oberon was not in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania would not have fallen in love with a beast, Helena would not have found love with Demetrius, and Lysander would not have been accidentally influenced to love Helena briefly. The story would not be funny or interesting, and there would not be a lot of action. If Prospero was not in The Tempest, Miranda would be the main character, and she would have no father. The entire story would have to have a different plot because Prospero, the main character, would be missing. Instead, Miranda would learn magic, but she would not know that she was sent to the island by the king of Naples and her uncle Antonio. She would have never been brought of the island in love with Ferdinand, and she would never have know the people who ruined her life were near. Ariel might have not been released from the tree, and Miranda might have fallen in love with Caliban instead of Ferdinand. If Oberon and Prospero were not in their stories, the plot would be boring and very

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