A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Climax

                                The play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a wonderful play of fantasy. The play is set in a Wood outside Athens and the setting itself is an important character in the comedy. The wood is home to the magical Puck and other fairies, and it is there that reality can be suspended and imagination followed. The play contains four groups of characters: Theseus of Athens and his bride Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons; the fairy king and queen, Oberon and Titania; two pairs of young lovers; and a company of Athenian working men headed by Nick Bottom, the weaver. The action centers on a magical spell cast by the mischievous fairy Puck and overseen by Oberon. The spell confuses the desires of the two sets of lovers and causes Titania to fall in love with Bottom, who has been turned into a monster with an ass's head. Oberon eventually releases the hapless victims from the spell, clearing up all mistakes. The play ends with a triple wedding as all three sets of lovers marry.

                                For me the climax of the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is when Oberon orders Puck to put a love potion to the eyes of Demetrius but mistaken Lysander as Demetrius, which then gave the complication of the story. In here, Oberon orders Puck to put the love potion on the eyes of an Athenian lad unknowing that there are 2 Athenian lads in the forest, one of which is Lysander whom he puts the love potion on. When Lysander then woke up he sees Helena whom he fell in love with. Puck to correct his fault then puts the love potion on the eyes of Demetrius who also woke up seeing Helena whom he fell in love with too. Helena, unknowing of the potion, thought that the two is only putting a prank on her. Hermia, on the other hand, is angered for she thought that Helena stole his love Lysander since that now Lysander loves Helena instead of herself.

                                I consider this part as the climax of the play because this part is where the conflict took place. For me this is the very tricky part of the story and it also made the story very complicated. For me it is also the most interesting part. Big problems are indeed caused by small problems.