Titania represents the maternal aspect of the Green World; she is the quintessential "earth mother" who nurtures all living things--including mortals. Her association with the harmony of the natural world is best evidenced in Act 2, Scene 1:81-117. Her feud with Oberon, the dissonance that they have created, is manifested in the form of fogs, floods, and failed crops --all of which threaten the well being of the mortals. Thus the earth is withering, rotting, and stagnating, and unless it is revived, its inhabitants will suffer as well. The prospect of death and destruction once more rears its ugly head.

However, harmony, as Oberon knows, can be regained through love. Without love, everything is in disarray. Although jealousy motivates his cruel hoax on Titania, his intention to unite Helena with Demetrius is honorable: love does conquer all. Unfortunately, Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius, thus causing more mayhem to threaten the harmony Oberon and Titania know is necessary.

The young couples, lost and bewildered in the forest, far from the sheltered and predictable court life they left behind, are forced, however, to re-evaluate the nature of their friendships as well as the nature of their love. In the alien forest environment, they are transported into a world where the rules and laws of society are no longer relevant; as such, the Green World makes it possible for them to live out their fantasies. For example, they all exhibit behaviors that they would never exhibit in their normal worlds: Demetrius plans to kill Lysander, Helena shamelessly chases Demetrius, Lysander becomes too amorous with Hermia, and Hermia vehemently attacks her childhood friend Helena.

Of course, all of these misunderstandings are intensified by Oberon's love potion. But because of these misunderstandings, the young couples discover things about themselves they never knew before and are able to move beyond the petty and trivial. Once these discoveries are made, as if awakening from a long, strange dream, their thoughts turn toward home and responsibility. Unsure of how long they have been gone and what they will find when they return, they return together as friends and lovers to face the consequences. Emerging from the enchanted woods into the light of day are four newly-matured young people who are ready to make their commitment to life, to marriage, to society