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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Role Of Puck - Term Papers

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Role Of Puck

Darryl Chancey
The role and character of Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, in A Midsummer
Night's Dream, is not only entertaining but quite useful.
William Shakespeare seems to have created the character of Puck from his
own childhood. In Shakespeare's time it was believed that fairies and little
people did exist. Whenever something went wrong around the farmyard or house or
village, incidents such as buckets of milk ‘accidentally' spilling over, or
tools suddenly disappearing, or doors opening for no reason, it was blamed on ‘
those damn little people!'.
The idea of Puck's character is a lovely one. One can't help but be
attracted to him and his innocent, little pranks. He is also known ...

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be around mortals and cause them trouble, as opposed
to other fairies. This is why Puck's little job with a love potion and a young
couple 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 has
caused a problem he will make sure to the best of his ability and power that it
is rectified. As in the scene with Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and
Demetrius. When Puck mistook Lysander for Demetrius (Shakespeare conveniently
had the characters look alike or ‘only slightly individualized') and dropped the
love-juice into Lysander's eyes and then (with help from Oberon) realized what
he had done he knew he had to fix it.
Shakespeare conveniently created ‘Puck' to add some probability to the
play. Since the typical audience believed in fairies and little people, Puck
could be convincing in his role. It is possibly, even today, more ...

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Added: 10/9/2005 06:25:45 AM
Category: Arts
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