Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is simply a...

Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is simply a lighthearted comedy of the follies and tribulations of love. It does however have quite a few more complexities that just that. The relationships between all of the main characters serve to provide us with a glimpse of a deep dark truth hidden within the lighter side of the play. One way to find these deep dark truths of the characters is by analyzing the characters and their relationships. The characters that I will be analyzing are Titania and Oberon, and Theseus and Hippolyta. The fairy queen Titania and the fairy king Oberon have very different personalities that make one wonder how their relationship could ever work. Oberon is a manipulative man who wants nothing but the†¦show more content†¦She was persistent in keeping the young little boy that she had promised to her friend, the little boy’s mother, to take care of and she would not take no for an answer: The Fairyland buys not the child of me. His mother was a vot’ress of my order, and in the spiced Indian air by night full often hath she gossiped by my side and sat with me on Neptune’s yellow sands, marking th’ embarked traders on the flood, when we have laughed to see the sails conceive and grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; which she, with pretty and with swimming gait, following (her womb then rich with my young squire), would imitate and sail upon the land to fetch me trifles and return again, as from a voyage, rich with merchandise. But she, being mortal, of that boy did die, and for her sake do I rear up her boy, and for her sake I will not par with him. (Shakespeare 41). Once she realized that her husband, Oberon, would not accept the little boy she had the heart and will to leave him, â€Å"Titania is principled and strong enough to stand up to her husband† (Jaimeson). Oberon being the selfish man he is did not let her live in peace. So one day she woke up and she fell in love with a donkey, which so happened to be Bottom the Weaver. She loves him and attends to him in every way possible showing her love and gratitude towards him. When Oberon was happy with how far along he got into humiliating her he took spell away and she had realized she was in love with a donkey. She became