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| Character | Titania | |
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| Gender | Female | |
| Age Range(s) | Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Descriptive, Lamenting | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Comedy | |
| Description | Titania expresses how her argument with Oberon has altered the natural course of things | |
| Location | ACT II, Scene 1 | |
Summary
The play revolves around three plots, all connected by the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, with the legenday Queen of the Amazons, Hyppolita. In the first plot, Egeus, a noblemen, appears at Theseus' court with his daughter Hermia and two men, Demetrius and Lysander. Egeus wants her daughter to marry Demetrius but Hermia is in love with Lysander. Her father urges her to change her mind or else she could even be executed. Lysander and Hermia, however, plan to elope and get married outside of Athens. They confide in Helena who in turn is in love with Demetrius. She tells Demetrius about their plan so that she can win his attention.
The second plot regards two fairies in the forest surrounding Athens, Oberon, the king of fairies and his queen Titania. In the first scene of ACT II we find two fairies, one Oberon's servant and the other Titania's friend, arguing in the forest regarding the king and queen's fight regarding a little Indian boy who is Titania's servant and Oberon wants to make him his knight. Titania refuses. Oberon and Titania enter the scene having a heated argument. They question each other's motives for coming to Athens. Titania accuses Oberon of loving Hyppolyta and Oberon accuses Titania of loving Theseus. In this monologue, in ACT II, Scene 1, Titiania expresses her belief that her argument with Oberon has altered the natural course of things.
The second plot regards two fairies in the forest surrounding Athens, Oberon, the king of fairies and his queen Titania. In the first scene of ACT II we find two fairies, one Oberon's servant and the other Titania's friend, arguing in the forest regarding the king and queen's fight regarding a little Indian boy who is Titania's servant and Oberon wants to make him his knight. Titania refuses. Oberon and Titania enter the scene having a heated argument. They question each other's motives for coming to Athens. Titania accuses Oberon of loving Hyppolyta and Oberon accuses Titania of loving Theseus. In this monologue, in ACT II, Scene 1, Titiania expresses her belief that her argument with Oberon has altered the natural course of things.
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| TITANIA These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport. Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea Contagious fogs; which falling in the land Have every pelting river made so proud That they have overborne their continents: The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard; The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrion flock; The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud, And the quaint mazes in the wanton green For lack of tread are undistinguishable: The human mortals want their winter here; No night is now with hymn or carol blest: Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound: And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which: And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension; We are their parents and original. |
