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Magic in A Midsummer's
Night’s Dream
By Chris
Love-in-idleness
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Puck is instructed by Oberon to fetch
the love-in-idleness flower for its
enchanted juices
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When applied to a person's sleeping
eyelids while sleeping makes the
victim fall in love with the first living
thing seen upon awakening
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“Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee
once:
The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.”
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The Athenians
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,”
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 Demetrius is initially in love
with hermia
 After Puck applies the love
potion, Demetrius falls in love
with Helena
 This restores balance among
the quartet by establishing two
couples
Oberon
 King of fairies
 It is by his orders that the loveidleness flower is used
 He restores order in the end by
undoing the enchantments and
blessing the Athenian lovers.
“To the best bride-bed will we,
Which by us shall blessed be;
And the issue there create
Ever shall be fortunate.
So shall all the couples three
Ever true in loving be;”
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Titania
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“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania something of the night,
Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.”
 Queen of fairies
 Her argument with
Oberon affects the
weather
 Due to an enchantment
cast by Puck, Titania falls
in love with Nick Bottom
Puck
 Oberon’s jester, a mischievous
fairy who delights in playing
pranks on mortals
 He causes chaos among the
group of lovers by applying the
love potion to Lysander instead of
Demetrius
 Also transforms Bottom’s head
into that of an ass
I am that merry
wanderer of the night
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Nick Bottom
 A craftsmen in Athens whose
head is transformed into that of
an ass by the mischievous
fairy Puck
 It is Nick Bottom who the Fairy
Queen Titania falls in love with
via the love potion
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The forest
 The forest is home to mythical
creatures such as fairies and
satyrs
 The Athenians attempt to
explain the magical events in
the forest as dreams
“I have had a dream, past the
wit of man to say what dream it
was”
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<http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/ideas/folklore.html>.
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<http://www.boldoutlaw.com/puckrobin/puckages.html>.
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