Titania Case

Titania

For an author to create a play that people would enjoy. He/she might include a variety of character. In William Shakespeare's play A Midsummers Night Dream he incorporated characters going through many conflicts because of their character traits. Titania, the queen of fairies, shows that she is loyal, powerful, and caring throughout the story.

Titania shows she is powerful by being the queen of fairies. Titania states (Act 2 sc.1 lines 119-120) "...from our dissension; we are their parents and original." To all the fairies, Oberon and Titania are their "original" or "parents". Titania also describes herself as a "spirit of no common rate" (act 3 sc.1 lines 156). Because she is a spirit of no common rate she can make rivers flood and corn die. By being the queen of fairies she shows she has even more power. By reading the part were Titania enters and exits, there are fairy servants by her side. In act 2 sc.2 line 6 "Sing me now asleep. Then to your office and let me rest." She shows the reader she has power by ordering her fairies to sing her to sleep.

Titania also shows that she is loyal. When Oberon wanted the Indian boy, Titania tells Oberon that she will not give up the boy even for the Fairy Kingdom. (Act 2 sc.1 lines 126-127) "The fairy land buys not the child of me." Titania had many enjoyable times with the mother, but when the mother died Titania said (Act2 sc.1 line 141-142) "And for her sake I will not part with him." While she was being loyal, Titania was also stubborn. In Act 2 sc. 1 line 150 she said "Fairies away. We shall chide downright if I stay any longer." Titania knows that she is stubborn by not giving the boy away, so she knows that they will eventually fight so she leaves with her fairies.

In the book, Shakespeare included a trait of Titania having a caring character trait. When Oberon put the love juice in Titania's eyes, she fell in love with Nick Bottom. While Titania was in love with Nick Bottom (Act 3 sc.1 line 170) she told the fairies to be "Kind and courteous." Also (Act 4 sc.1 line 31) Titania asks Bottom "what thou desirest to eat." This shows that she is caring to her lover by giving her anything he wants to eat. Also in act 4 scene 1 Titania lets Bottom use her fairy servants to scratch is head and fetch him things. Before she was under the love juice's spell, she showed that she was loyal and caring towards the Indian boy's mother by "not parting with him." (Act 2 sc.1 lines 141).

Although Shakespeare includes more traits to define Titania, he shows that she is a loyal, caring and powerful character. Because of the Indian boy, Titania shows Oberon her loyalty and power. Also because of the Indian boy, Oberon uses the love juice on Titania to make her fall in love with Nick Bottom which led her to be caring.