Chapter Analiziz The Giver

ROBIN
FAIRY
ROBIN
FAIRY
ROBIN
FAIRY
OBERON, the Fairy King, and his followers enter. On the opposite side of the stage, TITANIA, the Fairy Queen, and her followers enter.
OBERON
How not niceto see you, Titania.
TITANIA
OBERON
Wait just a minute, you brazen hussy. Aren’t you supposed to obey me, your lord and husband?
TITANIA
OBERON
How can you stand there shamelessly talking aboutme and Hippolyta, when you know that I know about your love for Theseus? Weren’t you the one who made him desert Perigouna in the middle of the night, right after he’d raped her? And weren’t you theone who made him cheat on all of his other girlfriends, like Aegles, Ariadne, and Antiopa?
TITANIA
OBERON
Do something about it, then. You have the power to fix it. Why would Titania want to arguewith her Oberon? All I’m asking for is to have that little human boy as part of my crew.
TITANIA
OBERON
How long do you plan to stay here in this forest?
TITANIA
OBERON
Give me that boy and I’llcome with you.
TITANIA
OBERON
Well, go on your way, then. You won’t leave this grove until I’ve paid you back for this insult. (toROBIN GOODFELLOW) My dear Puck, come here. You remember the timewhen I was sitting on a cliff, and I heard a mermaid sitting on a dolphin’s back sing such a sweet and harmonious song that it calmed the stormy sea and made stars shoot out of the sky so they couldhear her better?
ROBIN
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OBERON
That same night, I saw Cupid flying from the moon to the earth, with all of his arrows ready. (You couldn’t see him, but I could.) He took aim at a beautiful youngvirgin who was sitting on a throne in the western part of the world, and he shot his arrow of love well enough to have pierced a hundred thousand hearts. But I could see that Cupid’s fiery arrow wasput out by watery, virginal moonbeams, so the royal virgin continued her virginal thoughts without being interrupted by thoughts of love. But I paid attention to where Cupid’s arrow fell. It fell on a...