A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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   luannw Teacher
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   In Act 3, sc. 2, Oberon discovers when he hears Demetrius still professing his love to Hermia that Puck put the juice from the flower on Lysander's eyes and not on Demetrius's eyes.  He immediately tells Puck this this mistake must be corrected. Puck seems less concerned about it, chalking the mistake up to fate, "Then fate o'errules, that, one man holding troth. / A million fail, confounding oath on oath."  Oberon tells Puck that he must go find Helena and bring her to where Demetrius is as Oberon applies the nectar to Demetrius's eyes.  Oberon sees the situation as more need of immediate remedy than does Puck. It's serious to Oberon, but doesn't seem so to Puck.  He calls the mortals "fools" as if all this running around annointing eyes is an unimportant folly.

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