In William Shakespeare's " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", the " juice of the heartsease " is a love potion and " on sleeping eyelids laid, will make a man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees . " ( II . 1 ).
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The juice of the heartsease now, claims Oberon, " on sleeping eyelids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees . " Equipped with such powers, Oberon and Puck control the fates of various characters in the play to provide Shakespeare's essential dramatic and comic structure for the play.
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Mrs . Dulska s compartmentalized morals ( " she can rent to whores, but not greet them; she can accept immorality if it is hidden indoors, but evicts a tenant who creates a scandal by trying to escape her abusive husband " ) reflect the divided lives and roles of her children, particular the son whom she dotes upon to the point of unhealthy possessiveness.
