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wsluver07
wsluver07
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Why does Titania want to keep the child in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

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Posted by wsluver07 on Monday April 28, 2008 at 7:34 AM and tagged with a midsummer night’s dream, boy, changeling, child, midsummer nights dream, oberon, titania.

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  1. podunc Teacher
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    In Act II Scene I of the play, Titania and Oberon argue over the child, a "changeling" boy who Oberon wants to become one of his attendants. Titania will not give the boy up out of loyalty to his mother, who was one of her attendants. The boy's mother died in childbirth, and Titania promises that "for her sake I do rear up her boy, / And for her sake I will not part with him."

    This disagreement causes Oberon to pursue revenge by putting the love-juice in Titania's eyes while she sleeps. His hope is that, in exchange for the potion's antidote, Titania will give him the child.

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    Posted by podunc on Monday April 28, 2008 at 9:06 AM