The Power of Love

In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream love transforms the characters. A prime example of this is Titania, Queen of the Fairies. Titania becomes responsible for a boy when his mother, a follower of Titania’s, dies in childbirth. Oberon, King of the Fairies, wants this boy but Titania refuses to give it to him. Oberon puts the juice from the flower love-in-idleness on Titania’s eyes while she is sleeping so that when she awakes she falls in love with a commoner. This is most unusual for the Queen of the Fairies, especially because the commoner she falls in love with has the head of a donk...