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Question: Midsummer Night's Dream character (Titania)!?
-- In regard to Titania, what was not done well in the story!? Explain!.

-- what personality traits would you emphasize for Titania's character to make the audience have a strong attitude toward her!?

-- Choose one of the best lines Titania gives in the play!.

-- Explain the importance of this line in the play!.
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
We never found a real resolution to the Oberon/ Titania conflict!. Come on! This is Titania we're talking about here! You can't tell me she just is okay with Oberon tricking her into taking the kid!? If he lied to her I at least want to know what he told her!

She herself is passionate and extreme!. This is demonstrated in her love towards her child, and anger at Oberon!. When she is under the influence of the love flower she is extremely devoted to Bottom!. Demetrius and Lysander act like idiots, but none of them go to extremes like Titania!. (Granted they aren't fairy queens, but still!.!.!.) When the audience see's her passion for her child they sympathize with her!. They laugh at her when they see her extremities with Bottom!.

"Not for they fairy kingdom" (in Response to Oberon asking for the boy)

"And for her sake to I rear up her boy and for her sake I will not part with him!."

Both of these quotes illustrate Titania's love for her child!. Her love for her child "humanizes" her in a sense!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Titania was the name of a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream!. In Shakespeare's play, she is the queen of the fairies!. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy queen characters!.

In traditional folklore, the fairy queen has no name!. Shakespeare took the name 'Titania' from Ovid's Metamorphoses, where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans!.

In the Shakespeare play, Titania is a very proud creature and as much of a force to contend with as her husband Oberon!. The marital quarrel she and her husband are engaged in over which of them should have the keeping of a changeling page is the engine that drives the mix ups and confusion of the other characters in the play!. Due to an enchantment cast by Oberon's henchman Puck, Titania magically falls in love with a rude mechanical (a lower class laborman), Nick Bottom the Weaver, who has been given the head of an *** by Puck, who feels it is better suited to his character (which bears a resemblance to the story of Lycaon)!.

In the second act, Titania refers to the Athens as "human mortals!." Scholar John Hale interprets this as a reference to the mortality of humans from the fairie point of view, indicative of Shakespeare's ability to write from the perspective of all of his characters!. Titania's use of the word "mortal" both looks down upon and sympathizes with youths

Oberon states in the play:

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:

There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,

Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;

And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,

Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in


- These lines show the passion and love he shares for her
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