He is the son of her very close friend who died.
She explains that the boy's mother was a votaress of her order, kind of a nun devoted to Titania's service, who died giving birth to the boy. Titania feels she owes it to the mother to raise the kid.
King Oberon and Queen Titania are fairies in A Midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare. Titania is fighting with Oberon about an Indian boy who they are both trying to put in their possession.
He steals the Indian boy while she is cuddling with ass-head Bottom.
Titania had a servant boy whose mother had been one of her attendants. Oberon wanted that boy for some reason. Titania was unwilling to give him up, because of her sentimental attachment to the boy's mother. Hence the fight.
He wants to distract her with the juice of Love-in-Idleness, and while she is in love with something ugly, Oberon will make off with the Indian boy he wants.
Nothing. Theseus and Hippolyta didn't even know about him. It was Oberon and Titania who were arguing about the Indian boy who ended up being a page to Oberon.
She explains that the boy's mother was a votaress of her order, kind of a nun devoted to Titania's service, who died giving birth to the boy. Titania feels she owes it to the mother to raise the kid.
No name for a child of Titania is given in Shakespeare's plays. The "little Indian boy" is the child of her acolyte, not of herself.
Once Oberon put the the flower juice on Titania and she falls in love with Bottom, who has the head of an ass, he takes the boy. Titania is to busy with Bottom that she doesn't care or notice Oberon took the Indian boy.
in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania and Oberon are fighting over an Indian 'changeling' child who is not named. the child's mother was "a votaress" (religious worshiper or follower) of Titania, and they were friends. the child's mother died in childbirth, and for her sake, Titania is raising the boy. (Oberon, the Fairy King, is trying to take the boy away from Titania, and this creates much of the conflict between Titania and Oberon) I once played Titania in a college production of Midsummer it's a fantastic play!
King Oberon and Queen Titania are fairies in A Midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare. Titania is fighting with Oberon about an Indian boy who they are both trying to put in their possession.
He steals the Indian boy while she is cuddling with ass-head Bottom.
Titania is the Fairy Queen, who withholds the Indian changling boy from Oberon.
Oberon wants Titania to fall in love with some vile thing so she will have no afection for the boy stolen from the Indian King anymore. This way, he can take the boy as a servant and won't have Titania in the way. Later Oberon plans to cure the love spell from the Queen using a herb.
There was only one obstacle to Oberon's goal: his wife Titania. His goal was to have an Indian boy as a henchman, but she wouldn't let him. So, the solution? Get Titania out of the way.
Titania had a servant boy whose mother had been one of her attendants. Oberon wanted that boy for some reason. Titania was unwilling to give him up, because of her sentimental attachment to the boy's mother. Hence the fight.
He wants to distract her with the juice of Love-in-Idleness, and while she is in love with something ugly, Oberon will make off with the Indian boy he wants.