Explain what does the quote means? Titania: 'We always used to gossip together at night in India, sitting together by the ocean and watching the merchant ships sailing on the ocean.’ The quote from The midsummer night's dream.
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In simple words.. This is a quote from The Midsummer Night's Dream, in which the character Titania states that :-
'We always used to gossip together at night in India, sitting together by the ocean and watching the merchant ships sailing on the ocean.’
She stated this in order to reply Oberon's statement :-
'Do something about it, then. You have the power to fix it. Why would Titania want to argue with her Oberon? All I’m asking for is to have that little human boy as part of my crew.'
Titania wants to say that they always used to gossip (talk) at night time in India, and sat together by the vast ocean, and watched the beautiful sight of the merchant ships sailing on the endless ocean... But this is just an exctract for the reply.. Here is the full one..
TITANIA
Get over it. I won’t give up this child for all of Fairyland. His mother was one of my worshipers, and we always used to gossip together at night in India, sitting together by the ocean and watching the merchant ships sailing on the ocean. We used to laugh to see the sails fill up with wind so that they looked like they had big, pregnant bellies, as if the wind had gotten them pregnant. She would imitate them—since she was already pregnant with the little boy—and she would go sailing over the land herself to go get me little presents, and come back carrying gifts like she was a ship coming back from a voyage. But since she was a mortal, she died giving birth to that boy, and for her sake I’m raising him and will not give him up.
This is the Modern English Script..
TITANIA
Set your heart at rest.
The Fairyland buys not the child of me.
His mother was a votaress of my order,
And in the spicèd Indian air by night
Full often hath she gossiped by my side,
And sat with me on Neptune’s yellow sands,
Marking th' embarkèd traders on the flood,
When we have laughed to see the sails conceive
And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;
Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait
Following—her womb then rich with my young squire—
Would imitate, and sail upon the land
To fetch me trifles and return again
As from a voyage, rich with merchandise.
But she, being mortal, of that boy did die.
And for her sake do I rear up her boy,
And for her sake I will not part with him.
This is the Original Script
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