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

The Role Of Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream The role and piece of Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, in A MidsummerNights Dream, is not only entertaining but quite useful. William Shakespeare seems to have created the character of Puck from hisown childhood. In Shakespeares time it was believed that fairies and minorpeople did exist. Whenever something went wrong somewhat the farmyard or house orvillage, incidents such as buckets of milk accidentally spilling over, ortools suddenly disappearing, or doors fountain for no reason, it was blamed on those damn little people. The idea of Pucks character is a lovely one. One cant help but beattracted to him and his innocent, little pranks. He is also known by the nameRobin Goodfellow. The audience can only see this Robin Goodfellow side ofPuck when he is severe to fix something he disrupted, hence the name Goodfellow. When compared to Oberon, King of the Fairies and titanium dioxide, Queen of theFairies and the remaining fairies of the play , Puck does not seem to fit in aswell. While Oberon and Titania belong to the forest and the world of daintyfairies, a small village setting seems more appropriate 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 stainless 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 best 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 handilyhad the characters look alike or only slightly individualized) and dropped thelove-juice into Lysanders eyes and then (with help from Oberon) realized whathe had done he knew he had to fix it. Shakespeare 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, even today, more plausible to