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   Lysander: The young Athenian in love with Hermia. However Hermia's father Egeus objects to Lysander being in love with his daughter, because he wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. So, Lysander and Hermia run away into the forest  on the outskirts of Athens on their way to Lysander's aunt's house. While passing through the forest Lysander becomes a victim of Puck's mistakes and falls in love with Helena. However, towards the end of the play the mistake is cleared up and he marries Hermia.

   Oberon and Titania: Titania is the beautiful fairy queen who is at loggerheads with Oberon the fairy king over the possession of an orphaned boy, the son of her close Indian friend. Oberon wants the boy for himself in order to make him  his attendant, "I do but beg a little changeling boy/To be my henchman" but Titania refuses to part with him saying, "and for her (the Indian friend's) sake do I rear up her boy/And for her sake I will not part with him" ( ActII sc1).  Oberon in order to humiliate her and make her yield the boy to him, makes her fall in love with Bottom on whose head Puck has placed "an ass's head." At the end of the play they are both reconciled and Titania hands over the boy to Oberon,"I then did ask her her changeling child/Which straight she gave me." Act Iv sc1.

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   Posted by lit24 on Sunday November 23, 2008 at 3:27 AM