MSND Summary: ACT TWO Scene 1

In act two scene one, we are introduced to the king and queen of fairies, Titania and Oberon. We also learn that Oberon's servant, Puck is a mischievous man that loves to play tricks on mortals. Titania and Oberon are in a huge fight over Titania's possession of a little Indian boy and refuses to give him up to Oberon. Furiously mad at Titania, Oberon devises a plan and orders Puck to get the juice of the flower, Love-in-idleness. When this juice is rubbed on a person's sleeping eyelids, the person will fall in love with the next thing they see when they wake up. He then plans to rub it on Titania's eyes once he receives the juice from Puck, causing her to fall madly in love with a horrible creature, and then hopefully getting the possession of the Indian boy.

A desperate Helena chasing after Demetrius then enter the scene. Demetrius is determined to find and stop Hermia and Lysander from eloping, while Helena tries to confess her love for Demetrius. Helena tells him that the more she's being pushed away by him, the more she loves him. Demetrius refuses to hear this and tries to shun her.

Meanwhile, Oberon is still in the forest and is able to see the love problems between these Athenians. Oberon then orders his servant to put the flower juice on Demetrius' eyes too, so that he will fall in love with Helena, and her love for him will no longer be unrequitted.