'A Midsummer Night's Dream' The interevention of the faries.

In "A Midsummer Night's Dream", fairies play an important part in shaping the romantic lives of two young couples. With their help and intervention, occurrences that may have been inconceivable otherwise become reality. This reality within the play is contrasted by the dream world showing that love is a mask or just blind. The fairies are a key role in explaining the unexplainable to the audience, without them we would suggest fate or pure luck …

…his Athenian garb." Of course, the fairies are busy with their own affairs and are operating right outside the city of Athens. Oberon, for all his sophistication, never considers, in his order to Puck, that there may be more than one Athenian in the forest. Naturally Puck puts the potion on the wrong Athenian's eyes, and Lysander awakens in love with Helena. This in turn makes things a little more complicated, if it wasn't already.