Lunatics in Midsummer Nights Dream
Shakespeare's lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night are In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the moon is the guiding force ofmadness in the play which influences the chaotic nature and lunacy of thecharacters. The moon seems to preside over the entire play and is a symbol of Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, are one example oflunatic lovers that parallel the theme of changeability. Oberon and Titania arequarreling over the possession of an Indian boy that Titania has mothered sincethe boy was a baby. This makes Oberon very jealous. But, Oberon doesn't helpmatters much with his straying after nymphs and admiring Hippolyta. Thisquarrel becomes so intense that it begins to affect the seasons on earth. Titania 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.The constant changing of the earth's state in the seasons creates chaos amongmother nature. In order to solve the quar
Puck also sprinkles the potion on Titania's eyes causing her to act like a"lovesick lunatic". Orsino says that love acts like a demon and can wreck a person's life inthe following lines: If music be the food of love, play on! Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. rel, Oberon wants to teach Titania alesson by telling Puck or Robin Goodfellow to use a magical nectar on her andthe Athenian man called Demetrius: Fetch me a flower; the herb that I showed thee once The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees. II:I 172-75 In the case of the two lovers, Hermia and Lysander, they plan to meet bymoonlight and elope in Athens. This attire is considered a symbol of a low-class servingperson. Otherwise, Titania would certainly not be attracted to the ass head, Bottom, atall. Antonioknows the dangers of traveling to Orsino's palace, but he is willing to do itanyway because of love. Viola is employed withOrsino instead as a eunuch. If you were civil and knew courtesy You would not do me thus much injury. Also in that same speech, Orsino refers to the metaphor of the sea that he loves: O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there. Hermia'swillingness to risk banishment from her homeland shows that love can make aperson do irrational things. V:I 5-11 The lunatic lovers in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night also show thechangeability and madness of love. WhenCesario comes to court Olivia for Orsino one evening, Olivia tells Cesario thatshe will not have him. Love is blind to reasonand sometimes love overpowers reason.
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