Titania's response to Oberon's weird order for her to give up her best friend's child is central to our analysis of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." It is important to us as part of the content in terms of how we explore this disquieting comedy. It is important for its aesthetic values: imagery, parallism, etc. It is valuable as rhetoric when we compare it to Lysander's similar response to Egeus. Students in Pre AP English 10 memorized the speech and worked to deliver it according to their analysis of the way it appeals rhetorically.more