The Quarrel Of Oberon and Titania (sketch) ~Sir Joseph Noel Paton
Ever wonder who Oberon represents? Ever wonder about his drugs and his ‘fairy magic’ that can change a mind so completely? Ever wonder why he took ‘an Indian boy’ from his wife, Titania? So did I! SO…I went on an exhaustive tour of the critical literature to find out what the heck is going on. Oberon traumatizes poor Titania to take away her boy. Titania promised the boy’s deceased mother that she would protect him. Oberon takes the boy from Titania via drugs and sexual humiliation. WHAT? That’s just the start of things. This is part one of a deep dive into A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a dark play, a cruel play about the underbelly of human sexuality and the war between the sexes as it surveys beastiality, pedophilia, libertinism, human trafficking, mind control, theater and entertainment itself, in what somehow became a cute ‘romantic comedy’ about fairies and our love of animals. Oberon is often thought of as synonomous to Prospero by critics as Puck is compared to Ariel. Prospero is clearly the playwright Shakespeare, which makes Oberon Francis Bacon, the confident, the supreme, the man who hated women.
This is part of my adventure~ Episode 1 of a three part series. Part 2, Ignoring Oberon is coming soon for subscribers.
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