A Midsummer Night's Dream act II scene i starts off with Oberon and Titania arguing like always. This time there fighting over a young Indian prince who Titania captured and who she wants to become her son. But King Oberon has other plans for the prince. He wants him to become a personal human body guard. Oberon wants to get revenge on Titania. So he sends Robin Goodfellow(Puck) his personal jester to fetch a flower that has been hit by cupids arrow and forces people to fall in love with the first person they see. Oberon hopes that when Tatania wakes up she will see something foul and unpleasing. He then hopes to take the boy when Tiatania is overwhelmed with her new found lover and Oberon will be able to steal the Indian prince. Oberon then over hears Demetrius being very mean to Helena and decides to sprinkle the flowers juice in his eyelids to make him fall in love with Helena. So Oberon tells Puck to sprinkle the flower juice on an "Athenian man wearing Athenian clothes," and then sends him off.
The second scene starts off when Lysander and Hermia are running in the forest and decide to rest for the night. Lysander tells Hermia how much he wants to sleep next to her but thanks to Hermia's demands he keeps his distance. Puck then comes and see' s Lysander and Hermia sleeping in the forest together. Puck thinks that this is Demetrius and sprinkles the flower juice on Lysander's eyelids. When Lysander wakes up he see' s Helena and starts to immediately fall in love with her. Helena thinks this is all a joke and leaves with Lysander following. Hermia wakes up thinking she is being attacked by a snake and realizes that Lysander is no where to be found and left her laying alone in the forest.
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