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

The Role Of puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream The role and character of hockey puck, or Robin Goodfellow, in A MidsummerNights Dream, is not only entertain nevertheless quite useful. William Shakespeare seems to have created the character of hockey puck from hisown childhood. In Shakespeares time it was believed that fairies and little pile did exist. Whenever something went wrong around the farmyard or sept 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 honeyly one. One cant help but beattracted to him and his innocent, little pranks. He is also known by the denoteRobin Goodfellow. The earreach can only see this Robin Goodfellow cheek ofPuck when he is trying to fix something he disrupted, hence the boot Goodfellow. When compared to Oberon, King of the Fairies and Titania, Queen of theFairies and the remaining fa iries of the play, Puck does not seem to last in aswell. While Oberon and Titania belong to the forest and the field of daintyfairies, a small village setting seems more suppress 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 silk hat 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. Shakespea re 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, plain today, more plausible to