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All the actors meet up in the forest and start practicing the play to impress there audience.
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Bottom decides to tell the audience that the lion will not kill anyone because it is not real. so the men and women watching the play dont get scared.
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Puck gives Bottom a donkey head.
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When Titania wakes up from her deep sleep she surprisingly falls inlove with bottom and his donkey head.
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Puck realizes he put the love potion on the wrong eyes. "O Bottom they artchanged what do see on thee"
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Oberon puts the love potion in Demetrius's eyes so he will fall inlove with his follower, Helena. "I wonder if Titania be awaked, then what it was that next came in her ere, which she must dote on in extermity." (III. ii.1)
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Helena believes both men are mocking her when they say they love her.
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Hermia is extremly surprised and upset when Lysander says he hates her because they both loved eachother so much.
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Helena now belives even her friend Hermia is mocking her or making fun of her along with the guys.
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Hermia continues to be convinced that Lysander has truly broken up with her
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Helena over reacts and begins to fight with Hermia.
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Lysander and Demetrius begin to fight now to settle their differences. Demtrius says, "You spend your passion on a misprised mood. I am not guilty of Lysanders blood, nor is he dead, for aught that i can tell." (III.ii.74)
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Puck is to ensure that the men avoid eachother and stop fighting.
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oberon realizes that his mistake must be fixed, so he is going to take the child while Titania is distracted then reverse the spell he put on her.
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At the end of the act, Puck puts the anti love potion on Lysanders do restore the couples love for eachother.