Short character sketches on the characters of A Midsummer night's Dream Oberon and Titania
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Answer:King Oberon of the fairies definitely calls the shots, as it were, in the forest. As the play opens, we see him in conflict with his wife, Queen Titania, over a little Indian boy she has adopted as her own. Oberon wants the child to train as his personal henchman. That idea is distasteful to Queen Titania, and thus the conflict, so she has 'forsworn his bed and company'
As Act II, Scene 1 opens, Oberon and Titania are arguing. Not only is Titania irritated with Oberon over his desire to take the orphan boy for his own purposes, but she also accuses him of flirting with others. Oddly, she is also jealous of the Amazon Queen, Hippolyta, who will be married to Duke Theseus soon. Titania is very proud, and won't stand for duplicity. Oberon tells Titania that he is her lord, in an effort to assert his position in the marriage, but Titania is an even match for his strong will. We get the impression that King Oberon believes he can do whatever he wants, when he wants. He seems to have difficulty with not getting his own way.
Oberon is so bent on getting the Indian boy for his henchman that he disturbs Titania at every turn. The fairies have some control over the weather, and Titania accuses Oberon of throwing off the natural order of weather patterns because he keeps interrupting her ritualistic dances with the other fairies. She is obviously so irritated with Oberon that she basically moves out on her own.
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