However, while Lysander and Hermia were asleep, Puck mistakenly applies the juice to Lysander? ... So Puck goes and mistakenly applies the juice to Lysander? ... Oberon was not pleased when he realises that Puck has put the juice on the wrong lover? ... Thou hast mistaken quite, and laid the love juice on some truelove? ... Oberon applied the magic juice on Titania? ...
Oberon says, "Having once this juice, I'll watch Titania when she is asleep, And drop the liquor of it in her eyes. ... In this quote, Oberon orders Puck to fetch the juice and drop it in Titania's eyes. This is metaphor, in real world the magic juice transforms to money. ... Titania's resistance is easily resolved by this magical juice. ...
In other words, the play's title and plot recall English traditions in a way that suggests a combination of Halloween (Puck and the fairies) and a big rave (with love-juice instead of Ecstasy). ... Shakespeare's clearest allusion to the royal member of his first audience, however, comes in Act II, Scene 1, when Oberon describes to Puck the fateful flower, "love-in-idleness,"" that will produce the magic juice. ... Unfortunately, the love-juice Puck mistakenly applies to her boyfriend's eyes (thinking that he is Demetrius) makes him fall in love with her best friend Helena ins...
He says that the flower's juice, if rubbed on a sleeper's eyelids, will cause the sleeper to fall in love with the first living thing he or she sees upon waking. Oberon announces that he will use this juice on Titania, hoping that she will fall in love with some ridiculous creature; he will then refuse to lift the juice's effect until she yields the Indian prince to him. ... Puck appears, carrying the flower whose juice will serve as the love potion. ... Before hurrying away to anoint Titania's eyelids with the flower's juice, Oberon orders Puck to look for an Athen...
When Puck mistook Lysander for Demetrius (Shakespeare conveniently had the characters look alike or "only slightly individualized') and dropped the love-juice into Lysander's eyes and then (with help from Oberon) realized what he had done he knew he had to fix it. ...
SHAKESPEARE"S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT"S DREAM "THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH" The course of true love in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" never did run smooth. From not being able to marry the love of your choice Egeus is determined that his daughter, Hermia, will m...
In addition, Titania who is under the influence of the magical flower juice falls deeply love(lust) for Bottom (with an ass head), turns to be another obstacle in between Oberon and Titania's relationship. ... For instance, Lysander falls deeply in love for Helena (under the influence of the magical flower juice), causing both Helena and Hermia in total confusion. ...
Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. Hoffman's film is a Hollywood product, intended for a broad...
