A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act II
Act II, Scene I
The fairy must make sure everything is perfect for the queen. By the way the fairy acts; it is probably the one who prances around on the stage. The fairy is the life of the play, the center of everyone’s attention. The fairy is exciting and joyful. The fairy must make sure the decorations are perfect and that the Queen enjoys herself, and has a very good time.
Oberon and Titania are fighting over the little boy that Titania stole from the Indian king. Oberon wants the boy for himself to go with him on his trips through the forest. Titania refuses to give him the boy. She puts flowers in the little boy’s hair and makes a big fuss over him. Titania and Oberon refuse to speak to each other now. They don’t meet anywhere and their arguing frightens the fairies, so they hide in acorn cups and will not come out. He goes on to tell the fairy that he keeps Oberon happy by playing tricks on people to make him laugh.
Puck interacts with humans by playing mean tricks on them. He scares the maidens in the village; he steals the cream from the top of the milk, screws up the flour mills, and frustrating housewives by keeping their milk from turning into butter. He tricked a horse into thinking that he was a young female horse. He hid at the bottom of an old woman’s drink disguised as an apple, and when she took a drink he bobbed up against her lip and made her spill the drink all over herself. He has played many more harmful tricks on people.
The power of “love-in-idleness” is the power to make someone fall in love with the next living creature or person that they see when they wake up from the potion that was put on their eyelids while asleep. Cupid took an aim at a beautiful young virgin but missed. The arrow then fell on a western flower, which is now purple from the arrow of love. Oberon wants the flower so he...