Friday, January 29, 2010

Oberon


Oberon and Egeus never meet, yet they each have something to do with Demetrius's love life. In Act II, Scene 2, Oberon over-hears Helena tell Demetrius that she would love him even if he kicks her and treats her like his dog! (FYI: This is an unhealthy relationship!) So, Oberon tells Puck to put the magic love potion from the flower on Demetrius's eyes as well as Titania's. What does this say about Oberon's beliefs compared to those of Egeus? What does this tell us about Oberon's character and motivation?

What does this say about how he uses his magic? On one hand, he is helping out Helena, but on the other, he is getting back at Titania for their argument. He's nice to one woman, but not to another? What is the difference?


So, if you didn't get all of those questions, answer these basic ones for your ONE PARAGRAPH response:

1. What are the differences between Oberon and Egeus's beliefs about love? and
2. Considering what Oberon does for Helena and to Titania, what is Oberon's character/personality like?

50 comments:

Taylor Jesienouski said...

Oberon thinks that love is something you can't choose, also that is what i think the person that you love just comes to you. Egues thinks that love is something you CAN choose who someone loves. I do think it is wrong to put a love spell on someone (if you could). They should beable to choose for themself.
Oberon is someone who always gets what he wantes and he is willing to do anything to get it.

Anonymous said...

Oberon is useing a potion and Egeus's isn't. Oberon is useing a love potion and he is putting it on their eyelids. He does not use his magic right. He wants titania to give the kid to him but she doesn't, and he wants Demetrius to fall in love with Helena. He likes another girl.

Unknown said...

Oberon wants Demetrius to love Helena as much as Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon want them to have a good relationship, with no problems. I think Oberon personality is okay with Egeus because Egeus wants her daughter to marry Lysander not Demetrius, and if Oberon was to put the potion to Demetrius he wouldn't like her no more which would make hermias dad happy

Austin said...

he treats her bad and it is a bad relastionship and the other guy is going to get his love potion and try to make it all better.

Anonymous said...

The differences between oberon and egeus's beliefs about love is, obereon will uses magic to make people fall in love. to me oberon's personality is if he is mad at someone he will go do something for someone else to make that person mad

parker said...

egeus believes that he should be the one to choose who his daugter loves and marrys but oberon thinks that if someone loves someone thats the one. he is like he can be very loving and nice and he can be very mean and not loving.

Anonymous said...

Egeus's thinks since he is Hermias father he can choose who she marries. Oberon belives in ture love and not being forced to love someone.

Oberons personality is unique, he can be a very nice guy but if you get on his bad side or make him very angry he can do things to make everything miserable. He maybe helping Helena but he knows that he is doing nothing to help Titania.

DaisyFuentes2 said...

Oberon believes in love not of just money. Egeus on the other hand, doesn't really care about love. He just wants Hermia to get married but not to Lysander. 'Cause he is poorer than Demitrious.
I think that Oberon wants Helena to be happy with Demitrious. So from that I would say he is caring. Now to Titania, they got in a fight and he is getting back at her.

Maritza said...

Egues doesn't care and doesn't know anything about love, and oberon does know those things. Egues is trying to get hermia to marry to someone she doesn't love, he just wants demetruis's money. And oberon wants to help out helena with her demetruis problem, oberon is nice. But all he wants is to get titania back for the fight they are having! thats dumb

Ryan said...

Oberon thinks you can force someone to see love in your prospective and Egeus thinks you can choose who somebody else loves. Egeus is a way messed up character from my point of view because he forces his daughter to marry Demetrius. Oberon is just trying to get back at Titania because of their argument.

Kaden Barlow said...

Oberon thinks he can get an women that he wants. Egeus thinks he can make anyone love anyone like he has done to his dautgher.

I think Oberons personality is a bad personality. If he didnt put people madly in love with the person that doesnt want to be in love he would be a good person. It would be cool he if could change under his own spell or posion.

Anonymous said...

he treats her bad and its a bad relationship and puck is going to give demetrius potion to love helena

rosa said...

oberon is the one who beleives in love...egeus doesn't really care about love as much as oberon....
oberon is nice to helena and trying to help but to titania, she made him mad and apereantly making oberon mad just means consequenses and payback

Paker leavitt said...

egeus want to choose who Hermia should Marry and egeus want Demetrius to marry Hermia and lasder wants to marry her as well.he wants to help people but at the same time he want to get back at Titania.

Anonymous said...

Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius and Lysander wants to marry Hermia as well. Oberon wants Helena and Demetrius to love each other. Oberon is trying to get back at Titania.

shelby said...

Oberons beliefs is love and money. but Egeus really doesn't care about love.
I think the reason he is doing what he is doing is because he wants Helena to be happy no matter what so he sees that she is happy with Demotrious so he puts the love potion on. but i also say that Oberon is getting back at Titania.

Anonymous said...

Oberon does whatever he feels is right, like putting a love potion on Demetrius and Titania, Oberon's beliefs i feel are somewhat similar to Egeus's beliefs. Egeus thinks that he can just choose the love of others like Hermia and Demetrius and think that it is right, you can do that but its not always the right thing to do. Oberon is a caring person towards Helena's love for Demetrius and that he just thinks Demetrius is doing the wrong thing by wanting to marry hermia.Also Oberon wants him and Titania to be happy together and it's not a bad thing to put a potion on someone if you love them.

Crystall Babyyy,(: said...

I think Oberon just belives in love for the caa-ching-ching (you know money.) And Egeus i think he is full of it and he doesn't really care about love and he thinks it's kind dummy.
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I think Oberon is a jerk cause he wants to help helena and not tittaina
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love crystal yo !

Anonymous said...

Egeus thinks he can choose his who is daughter marries. Oberon wants his daughter to choose her husband. I think Oberon is careing

Unknown said...

Oberon uses magic and potion to make someone love another one,, && Egeus may choose whom to love without anyone telling him or forcing him & doing without potions.

Oberon wants Helena to be happy with Demetrious. I would say that hes trying to make things better and hes caring. No to Titanaia, they go in a fight and now hes trying to get back at her.

Brandon said...

well oberon is one of those guys that thinks he can pick the person to love by magic and egeus does it diffrent he has like athourity power to make them love someone eles..

Oberons personality is very diffrent he could be nice or he could be like messed up..

Anonymous said...

I think oberon wants them to fall in love with magic. It like forcing them to fall in love.Oberon seems like a sad person,mabey he wants to put magic love potion on demetrius eyes just to he falls in loves helena. I tink he is trying to help..??

MARIA :) said...

Oberon is using magic to make Helena happy, and make Demetrius fall in love with Helena.
And Egeus is forcing his daughter to marry Demetrius, but Hermia loves lysander

Anonymous said...

the differences between Oberon and Egeuss about love.Oberon tell demerius that she woundnt care how oberon will treat her.And he treats her bad elgues doesnt care about love. and oberon uses magic so people can fell in love.oberon character is like he uses magic

ricky said...

oberon uses his magic and potion to make people fall in love with other people, cause he think no one can fall in love without it. While Egeus doesn't beveils in love he makes people fall in love whether they like each other or not.




Oberon helped Helena and didn't help Titania cause Titania didn't what he said. So his personality is he likes to help and he doesn't.

sam said...

The different thing about Egeus and Oberon is that Oberon uses Magic power to put on peoples eyes so they fall in love with each other. So i think that is not fear for the people that actually try to get someone to love you.

Giselda said...

Oberon can do magic, like for example when he ordered Puck to drop some of the flower's love juice on Demetrius's eye lids as he sleeps. He likes to make people fall in love? ...Ha, I don't know, that's what I think. Egeus doesn't care if his daughter wants to marry Lysander, all he wants is for her to marry Demetrius. He's being selfish, what a booty hole! He should let his daughter marry who ever she wants. Oberon is a nice guy, maybe a push over and you can tell him to do something and he'll do it in a good mood. I think he dones't take no for an answer? ...WOW! Edgar forgot how to spell flower. Hahaha. What a loser.

Nayely said...

Well what either one is doing isn't right. Becuase they shouldn't be telling some one what to do like love some one. But then it comes back to demetrius because he's only going for hermia for her money and it be okay if oberon used da love potion so demetrius can be in love with helena but to be grantee that it's going to work. Egues should at least see whats going to hold for hermia future if shes going to be happy o not isn't that what it matter.? Oberon likes to try &fix things well at least it seen like it. But he should do it the right way were it benefits everyone well like the main people. :) i think thats should go with the question :)

alex s. said...

you should love who u want not like egeus thinks that u should love who he wants.The love is in the hearts decision not in the parents decision. cause if u are with someone that u dont love then theres no point of being with them. i think that he is really mean and f****d up.

willow said...

Egeus doesn't believe in true love and Oberon just wants to make it right by counteracting Egeus by making Lysander love Hermia? While in the process of a argue between Oberon and Titania and he wants to help Helena and not Titania so he is kind of mean.

Aaron said...

I don't really think there is a difference in beliefs about love between Oberon and Egeus. Their both trying to force love. There is one difference, I think, and its that Egeus knows he is troubling his daughter and still forces it and Oberon doesn't know he is troubling Demetrius and still does it but as for the Titania thing he is just doing it to get back at her. Also I think Oberon seems like he has two personalities. One seems revengeful and the other seems caring in a way.

Jessica Medrano said...

Egeus and Oberon believes about love is wrong because they are practacly forcings someone to love someone even if they don't feel anything for that person. For exmaple Egeus wants Hermia to love and marry Demetrious but Hermia would never love him because she loves Lysander. Oberon is trying to help out Helen so that she would be happy with Demetrious but either way it is wrong becauce he would practicly be under a spell. They have the power to do these things but its a wrong chose.

Anonymous said...

The difference between Oberon and Egeus's beliefs about love are not very different after all. Oberon is trying to get Demetrius to fall in love with Helena with magic dust. Then Egeus is trying to make Hermia fall in love with Demetrius by force because he is her father. Oberon's personality is not very nice because he is making Titania fall in love with some type of creature and then he is going to make some other girl happy by making her true love fall in love with her. So he is making good for one girl, but bad for the other. I would personally think that is a problem with oberon's attitude.

Jovana said...

Hhhmmm well the differences between are that Oberon is using magic to make Demetrius fall in love Egeus is using power.

I think that Oberon is mean because he's mean to Tatania and he's also nice because he's trying to help Helena.
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kristina said...

kristina:) well i think that the differences between oberon and egeus is that egrus is forsing hermea to marry demetrius.But also on the other hand oberon is forsing demetrius to have helena.

ummm... i think that oberon has to diffrent personalitys,because one he is being nice to helena by giving her what she wants.But on the other hand he is herting titaania by takeing away something she loves and giveing her somthing she dosint.

Anonymous said...

i think that Egeus can choose who marries his daughter.i think its the daughters choose how she wants to marrie.

MICH-YELL:D FREAKY FRESH! said...

Egeus thinks just because Hermia is his daughter he can decide whats best for even though shes old enough to make her own choices he thinks LOVE isn't important.Oberon sees Helena's LOVE for Demetrius and he sees her pain but he also manipulates Titania for his own convenience he will do things for his own convenience soooooooooooo yeah idk what else to write :]ohhhh and he uses magic stuff to get what he wants and he may also have some good in him...............:) & yeah :]

nathalie said...

Well Egeus Wants Hermia to marry Demetrius When Hermia doesn't love him. Just because Egeus is Hermia's father it doesn't mean that he gets to make the choices. Oberon see's how much Helena love's Demetrius and i guess tries to help her i guess..
Oberon has magic and tries to help the love ones.. Um i think that Oberon give Helena what she wants. And Titania i dont know.

Josmar"scarface"deDios said...

I say obron is doing the right thing anyway isn't Demetrius in love with Herima's money and Egeus just what herto marry her him because he thick he is doing the right thing but Oberon and Egeus are doing horrible thing like Oberon trying to make titania to love the first thing she sees so it a lose lose thing.

Anonymous said...

the diffrence oberon and egeus's is that oberon uses magic to get people to fall in love and egeus's is just useing his power of being her father.
and i think that oberon is a type of person that likes to make things better for other people but doesnt know that he needs help to.

Anonymous said...

Ok well i think that Oberon is just trying to make Demetrius like Helena!! And Egeus is trying to make Hermia love Demetrius and that just isnt right!!
Well Oberon probably feels sorry for Helena and thats why hes all nice to her and hes mean to Titania because he thinks that shes spoiled!!! :))
And ya thats wat i think ;D

<3 VaNeSsA!!!

Anonymous said...

helena doesn't love oberon (i think)

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diana said...

i think that Oberon is just trying to make Demetrius fall in love with Helena. and egeus is just doesn't want Hermia to go out with lisander... she want her too be with Demetrius. and i think that Oberon is a nice guy and he just wants to make things better for Hermia and Demetrius... but egeus over here wants too do things his way and i think that its not his choice i think it is Hermia's.

emir said...

i think it is not fair that oberon is making demetrius fall in love with helena if he loves hermia.

egeus is not fair to his daughter hermia she loves lysander and egeus is !!making!! hermia marry demetrius when she does not want to.

oberon and egeus are almost the same but not really to me oberon is making demetrius fall in love with helena and egeus is making hermia marry demetrius but oberon is using magic and egeus is not

LaNDy hAFoka said...

1. There belifes are sort of the same because they both want the same thing for helena and hermia but then again the person that helena love's does not love helena he love hermia just for the money she has. if i were oberon i would make demetrius fall in love with the person that he wants to fall in love with. (just not hermia)

2. Oberon's personality is like cupite they both try to make people fall in love if they aren't in love and if they are in love and mad at each other then he make's them forgive each other.

Anonymous said...

Demetrius treats Helena really bad and I think that's not nice at all, but Oberon is wrong too because he cant decide who Demetrius can love... and I think that Oberon and Titania should stop FIGHTING!!

Alfredo said...

He is trying to make one person happy. So then if he does that he will make Helena happy too. Because Helena don't like Demetrius so know the whole world is going to be happy. Forever then they will grow old and die. Demetrius is a mean guy because why doesn't he just give her a chance? ? ? ?

Jorge said...

Oberon and Egeus want Demetrius to love Hermia and Demetrius loves her money but not her.Hermia and lysander should be together because they love each other. Oberons charcter is mean because his doing bad things to everybody.

freddy said...

Oberon's beliefs about what he does for Helena and what he does to Titania. He is nice to Helena by trying to make Demetrius love her and pretty much aid her. And what he does to Titania is that he makes her fall in love with him and he isn't doing it for love.

edgar said...

Oberon probably want's Helena to be treated right, so he puts the flower thing on Demetrius, he uses the magic right but then he is being mean to another person...I thing he is using the magic right.
Hes pesonality is being helpfull.

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