Sunday, November 16, 2008

Titania and Oberon

This play was not interesting to me in the slightest and I'm going to have to say I had no idea what was going on throughout the majority of this play. I read it and even watched it and both left me confused. I had a lot of trouble remembering all the characters, which kind of makes it difficult to keep up with what was going on and to examine the relationships between characters. One relationship that I sort of understood and found some what interesting was the relationship between Titania and Oberon. Oberon is the king of the fairies and Titania is the Queen, aka his wife. Titania kidnaps an Indian prince, who Oberon wishes to make his knight. This causes conflict with the relationship between Titania and Oberon because Titania refuses to give up the prince. Titania refuses to sleep with her husband, until he rids the idea of making the boy his knight. As a sort of revenge Oberon puts a spell on Titania, making her fall in love with a creature that is half human half donkey. Oberon tricks Titania, while under the spell, convincing her to give him the boy and she does willingly. When she awakes from the spell the two reunite happily. I thought it was interesting how the two just forgave each other after the arguments they had and after Oberon took the fairy prince to be his knight...Yeah but over all I was pretty confused with what was even going on and with who for most of the play. 

2 comments:

Shannon said...

The comedy in the play is in part derived from the ridiculous complication of the play itself. Don't be afraid to seek out study aides to help teach you the "basics"--characters, plot, etc. in the play. While Shakespeare can be difficult, his work is not impenetrable. Trust your ideas and your interpretations. You probably know more than you realize you do.

Keep at it!

lisajo88 said...

Watching this play killed me. I thought it would be easier to understand since i would be able to hear it and not just read what I thought it was saying. Let's just say I was wrong and got about 10 min and was completely over the whole play.

p.s. I am starting to enjoy the play :)