The Role Of Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream :: Midsummer Nights Dream

The Role Of hockey puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream The role and character of puck, or Robin Goodfellow, in A MidsummerNights Dream, is not only entertain entirely quite useful. William Shakespeare seems to have created the character of puck from hisown childhood. In Shakespeares time it was believed that fairies and little concourse did exist. Whenever something went wrong around the farmyard or stomach orvillage, incidents such as buckets of milk accidentally spilling over, ortools suddenly disappearing, or doors opening for no reason, it was blamed on those damn little people. The idea of Pucks character is a retirely one. One cant help but beattracted to him and his innocent, little pranks. He is also known by the labelRobin Goodfellow. The earshot can only see this Robin Goodfellow perspective ofPuck when he is trying to fix something he disrupted, hence the raise Goodfellow. When compared to Oberon, King of the Fairies and Titania, Queen of theFairies and the remainin g fairies of the play, Puck does not seem to chalk up in aswell. While Oberon and Titania belong to the forest and the world of daintyfairies, a small village setting seems more leave for Puck. He is thetype of fairy that likes to be around mortals and cause them trouble, as opposedto other fairies. This is why Pucks little job with a love potion and a youngcouple is perfect for him and he perfect for the job. Puck is a likable character who tends to create mischief around himself.Everything is a game to crafty little Puck. Yet once he realizes that he hascaused a problem he will make sure to the surpass of his ability and power that itis rectified. As in the scene with Hermia and Lysander, and Helena andDemetrius. When Puck mistook Lysander for Demetrius (Shakespeare convenientlyhad the characters look alike or only slightly individualized) and dropped thelove-juice into Lysanders eyeball and then (with help from Oberon) realized whathe had done he knew he had to fix it. Shake speare conveniently created Puck to add some probability to theplay. Since the typical audience believed in fairies and little people, Puckcould be convincing in his role. It is possibly, evening today, more plausible to