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Synopsis
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play by William Shakespeare. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies, which inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.

This play is divided in three acts. Every act is divided in scenes. Act two scene one, takes place in a wood near Athens. Puck appears and talks with a fairy which is doing favors for the queen Titania. Puck warns him the King, Oberon is in a foul mood because Titania stole an Indian boy who Oberon wanted for himself. Oberon sends puck to get a flower to make a Titania fall in love, with that Puck leaves. Oberon then explains his plan to drop liquid from the flower in Titania’s eyes while she is sleeping and she will fall in love with the next thing she sees. Demetrius and Helena enter the wood, Demetrius tells Helena to go away, and that he does not love her even though she has told him about Hermia and Lysander trying to run away. Oberon overheard the conversation and decided to make Demetrius fall in love with Helena. He tells Puck to take some of the juice and go anoint the eyes of the Athenian man in the woods, but doing so only when it is certain that the woman by his side will be the first person he sees. The puck agrees, and goes off to carry out his errand.

In act two scene two start as Titania calls for a quick dance in the woods with her fairies, after which they sing her to sleep. Oberon takes the opportunity to sneak up and drop the pansy juice onto her closed eyelids. After that Lysander and Hermia decide to go to sleep as well. They lie down but with a short distance away in order to keep up her sense of modesty since she is not married to him yet. Puck spies Lysander lying apart from Hermia and deduces that this must be the hard-hearted Athenian which Oberon spoke about. He quickly drops some of the juice onto Lysander's eyes. Demetrius, followed by Helena, runs into the place where Lysander is lying asleep. She begs him to stop running away from her, but he refuses and leaves her there alone. Helena finally sees Lysander on the ground and wakes him up. Lysander immediately falls in love with Helena, and tells her that he deeply loves her. She thinks it is a cruel joke and tells him to stop abusing her. When Hermia wakes up, she calls for Lysander, but he is no longer near her.

Plot
The structure of this theatre is chronological but it changes from a story to a different one. This act starts when Puck warns Titania's fairy that the King, Oberon, is in a foul mood because Titania stole an Indian boy who Oberon wanted for himself. Oberon and Titania argue over who should have the Indian boy. Oberon vows to get revenge on her for causing him embarrassment. He sends puck to get a flower to make a Titania fall in love. Demetrius and Helena enter the wood, Demetrius is trying to find Lysander and Hermia. Oberon tells puck where Titania is, and plans to go to Titania to put some of the flower liquid on her eyes. He tells Puck to find an Athenian man and put some of the liquid on his eye. Oberon sneaks up putting a few drops of the liquid on her eyes. Lysander and Hermia lost their way and eventually the two fell asleep. Puck believes Lysander is Demetrius and gives Lysander the flower liquid on his eyes.

Shakespeare
Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His birthdate is unknown. He died on April 23, 1616 in Warwickshire, England being 52 years old.

Characters
Act II of A Midsummer Night’s Dream revolves around the following characters. Demetrius is in love with Hermia. He cannot marry her openly because Egeus, her father, wishes her to wed Demetrius. Helena is in love with him and she follows him into the forest where he insults and declares his hatred toward Helena. Oberon spies on them and commands Puck to spread a love potion to Demetrius so that he will be chasing Helena. Helena is in love with Demetrius. Demetrius and Helena were once betrothed, but when Demetrius met Helena’s friend Hermia, he fell in love with her and abandoned Helena. She is constantly declaring her love to Demetrius. Lysander is n love with Hermia. He cannot marry her openly because Egeus, her father, wishes her to wed Demetrius. He suggests to get married in his aunt’s house but get lost in the way. They decide to spend the night in the forest and Puck spreads the love potion and automatically falls in love with Helena who is trying to convince him that he does not love her. Hermia is daughter of Egeus, in love with Lysander. Hermia is in love with Lysander and is a childhood friend of Helena. After spending the night in the forest with Lysander she wakes up alone to find out that he is in love with Helena.

Other characters that play an important role in this act are the fairies. Puck is Oberon’s jester. He’s a mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals. Puck is one of the followers of Oberon who is at constant battle with Titania. He is given a mission to spread a love potion to a boy being chased by a girl, which he confuses with Hermia and Lysander instead of Helena and Demetrius. He completes his task and leaves. Oberon is King of the Fairies. He is in constant battle with Titania for has taken a little Indian prince as her attendant, and the boy is so beautiful that Oberon wishes to make him his knight. He sends Puck to seek a white-and-purple flower called love-in-idleness. This flower gives the effect of falling in love at first sight. Titania is the Queen of the Fairies. She refuses to give the boy that Oregon seeks. She falls asleep in the forest but is not assaulted by Puck. The potion is spread in her eyes by Oberon. Fairies are also known as the train or followers of either Titania or Oberon. They each represent their King or Queen in any of the missions they are assigned.