Puck Essays

Robin Goodfellow often referred to simply as Puck is a mischievous fairy that enjoys playing pranks on mortals in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night 's Dream. Puck is Oberon’s jester, and his antics are responsible for many of the complications that launch the conflict of the play. Pucks were a category of spirits who were often sinister, and the Puck of this play is clearly mischievous. In his mischievous ways, he finds this entire situation a joke and entertainment to him. He first appears in Act

Puck and Bottom: Different but Alike There are two characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Puck and Bottom. They are funny, and they bring a great amount of comic relief to the play. They do have their differences, however. Bottom is an artisan while Puck is a fairy. Being a fairy is considered higher than a job like Bottom’s. Being an artisan is just the same as being any old commoner. These two are virtually the same, but also different in the way they make the people of the audience think.

genders. Puck is a servant to the king of the fairies, Oberon, and was originally written to be played as a man, but has been played as a female in recent productions. The American Players Theatre recently put on a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Puck was portrayed much like the character on paper, however, many traits were taken further; a deeper understanding of the jokester was revealed throughout the portrayal by Cristina Panfilio.

the problems in the play. Oberon messes up the relationship between the lovers when he orders Puck to put love potion into Demetrius’s eyes. This happens because when Demetrius and Helena went into the forest to chase Lysander and Hermia, Oberon overheard their argument about how eagerly Helena wants Demetrius’s love. Oberon wanted to help Helena so she will be thankful to him, so he gave ordered Puck to put love potion on Demetrius’s eyes. But Oberon doesn’t know that Lysander and Hermia are also

He declares that the flower must use its full power on the man, because he has no love for the woman. Puck also confuses Hermia for Helena when he expresses sympathy for the woman. The element of mistaken identities is being demonstrated because Puck has mistaken Lysander for Demetrius, causing him to apply the love juice to Lysander. This leads to love becoming out of balance because Lysander will no longer love Hermia and

Oberon and Puck create fake love by giving the potion to Lysander and Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia shared true love before Puck accidently put the love potion on Lysander, causing him to fall in love with Helena. Demetrius goes from loving Helena to hating her, and loving Hermia to loving Helena because of the influence of the love potion. Helena and Hermia used to have a platonic love, but because of Lysander and Demetrius loving Helena, not Hermia, they feel hatred towards each other. Puck 's confusion

this, it questions the singularity of any entity. The characters of Puck/Robin Goodfellow and Francis Flute who plays Thisbe in Pyramus and Thisbe are foils to the search for a true identity, a theme that is revisited often in the play. One of the most noticeable features of both Puck and Francis Flute are the way they deliver their speeches. Flute’s speech is fragmented and involves a lot of questions and broken sentences:

O Strange! We are haunted. Pray, masters! Fly, masters! help! “ (Shakespeare 49-50). This showed that Quince and the others are scared and don’t know why his head is like that. This is dramatic irony because the audience knows why he is like this. Puck, a fairy, turned Bottom’s head into an ass’s head because Oberon, the fairy king, wanted his wife, Titania, to fall in love with something ugly. In my opinion, this is the best example of dramatic irony because it is exciting. This is also my favorite

Lyslander and Hermai plan to go to his Aunt 's house to marry in the forest. Demetrius follows them into the forest with Hellena. Titania and Oberon argue in the forest. Oberon vows to make her pay by putting a love herb on Titania 's eyes. Oberon tells Puck to put a love potion on Demutruis but puts it on Lyslander by mistake. Lyslander falls for Hellena because she wakes him up. The climax is Titania wakes up and is in

Dreams are wild, magical, and mysterious. The majority of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is spent in a heavily wooded forest full of fairies and irrational young lovers, creating a night only fallible as a dream. The story contains a royal wedding about to take place and the young lovers Hermia and Lysander provoked to eloping because Hermia’s father will only let her marry Demetrius. Hermia’s best friend Helena, who loves Demetrius, tells Demetrius Hermia and Lysander’s plot to escape

though sexual desire is found in every act, it isn’t the only type of desire found within the play. In addition to sexual desire, we find a desire for utter and complete control, which is held most notably by Oberon, as well as the desire for chaos. Puck is a character recognizable by those who study mythology by his mischievous nature and tendency to play tricks on those unfortunate enough to slight him. These three incarnations of desire all play into the social standing of life at the time. Those

Importance of Dreams As the title indicates, dreams are an important theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A dream is not real, although it does seem real when we experience it. Shakespeare seems to be interested in the workings of dreams. He likes for things to happen without an explanation. He also likes to incorporate dreams because they change the flow of time, and impossible situations occur. He even incorporates things such as the moon to give the play a dreamy effect. Shakespeare tries to

and uses his powers to make her fall in love with Bottom, a mortal with an ass's head. He does this to gain possession of the boy for himself. Additionally, Oberon also controls the actions of the four lovers in the play. He uses his fairy servant Puck to cast a spell on the eyes of Lysander and Demetrius, causing them to fall in love with Helena and Hermia,

In Act three of the play A midsummer night’s dream, Shakespeare explores how love creates confusions. In the forest, Puck’s magic brings about many of the most bizarre and hilarious situations in the play. When this Act opens, Oberon orders Puck to put love potion on Titania’s eyes when she falls asleep. After she wakes up, she sees Bottom, who is practicing the play, and falls in love with him simultaneously. She says to Bottom, “What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?” (3.1.113). Because of the

part of the book, Puck and Oberon realize they messed up. Then, Hermia accuses Demetrius of killing Lysander. Finally, Oberon and Puck both try to fix their mistake. In our scene, Fahad played Oberon, Kirill played Puck, Olivea played Demetrius and I played Hermia. As a group, we decided on a Christmas theme and our scene, “A Midwinter’s Night Dream” was born. We discussed possible costumes, props, music, lighting and desk arrangements. One thing we wanted to try to simulate was Puck and Oberon disappearing

little changeling Indian boy to him which she refuses strongly. This results in Oberon being vexed and orders Puck to fetch him the love juice and pour it into Titania’s eyes while she is sleeping out of spite. Prior to this scene, we witness the conversation between Puck and the fairies, the latter being warned regarding the possible conflict between Oberon and Titania. The scene ends with Puck commencing his journey to find the flower. In this scene, the playwright portrays the ideas about lovers and

Dramatic Irony In A Midsummer's Night’s Dream In William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck leads a rein of Situational irony throughout Athens. Irony is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous reaction. Irony is used in many different ways from Verbal to Dramatic and Situational. Verbal irony is when someone says something that is the opposite of how they feel or what happend like falling down and getting

These actions only take place in the forest setting, furthering the thought that the forest is a place when dreams and imagination run rampant. Evidence of this is when Oberon and Puck have an argument as Puck has put the love potion in Lysander’s eyes in place of Demetrius’. This displays how the fairies have control over the humans, with the humans having no input on what happens. This could be seen as part of a dream or an imagination as we

Throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck and Oberon utilize their magical powers to manipulate the events that occur during the night. Two of the characters in the play that fall under the effects of their magic are Bottom and Titania. While using these powers, Puck transforms Bottom's head into the head of a donkey, and Oberon uses his magic on Titania by applying a love potion to her eyes to make her instantly fall in love with whoever she sees when she awakens next. The situation these characters

Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night’s Dream depicts a number of human truths including: lust, disappointment, confusion, deception, choice, betrayal, and marriage. The story begins with Hermia refusing to comply with her father Egeus 's wish for her to marry Demetrius. In response, Egeus turns to a law requiring a daughter to marry a prospected man chosen by her father, or else face death or lifelong chastity as a nun. Faced with this dilemma, Hermia and her lover Lysander elope by going into the