In William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, many of the conflicts stem from the use of a potion, created from the love-in-idleness flower. Oberon, the faerie king, decides to use this potion on Titania, the faerie queen, out of anger and chastisement. Titania has a beautiful changeling boy who she will not give to Oberon, and so Oberon uses this situation as an opportunity to punish her for not obeying him.
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In William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, many of the conflicts stem from the use of a potion, created from the love-in-idleness flower. Oberon, the faerie king, decides to use this potion on Titania, the faerie queen, out of anger and chastisement. Titania has a beautiful changeling boy who she will not give to Oberon, and so Oberon uses this situation as an opportunity to punish her for not obeying him.
As a result of the potion, Titania falls madly in love with Bottom, a player wearing an ass' head. In her passion, she no longer cares about the changeling, who she now readily agrees to give to Oberon. Because he has gotten the changeling and because Titania has now been humiliated, Oberon removes the potion so that Titania can, with a clear mind, register her punishment.
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