Puck's misuse of magic causes extraordinary events to arise in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Firstly, Puck transforms the head of Bottom's into one of a donkey. Secondly, Puck uses magic to pull practical pranks on people during the play. Thirdly, Puck mistakenly rubs the flower's juice onto Lysander's eyelids. I believe Puck is bothersome. His misuse of magic troubles the people around him and makes them feel bad.
Puck transforms the head of Bottom's to one of a donkey and that causes complications to happen throughout the whole play. Foremost, Bottom sees that the actors have ran away from him and wonders why they've done so (III.I.113). The actors have run away from Bottom because he has the head of the Donkey and it scares them away (III.I.105).
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At first, Puck misleads people during the night and disappears when they get lost. Fairy says that Puck misleads night wanderers (II.I.39) and Puck is proud of it because he believes it's funny and it'll make Oberon happy. This shows that Puck causes dilemma with magic just for the fun of it. Next, Puck scares ladies and laughs at them when they are about to choke on their drink. Puck says himself that he becomes a crab apple and hides in a lady's drink and when she's about to take a sip, he scares her, so people can make fun of her when the drink spills on her lap (II.I.45-50). This is rather irritating because the women just want to tell tales but, Puck embarrasses them with his magic. Lastly, Puck tricks elderly women to sit on him to only drop them on their backside during a sad tale. Puck says that when a woman is telling a sad story, he turns into a 3-legged stool, so the lady sits on him and when she's talking about an important part of the story, Puck disappears and makes her fall on her backside which makes fun of her because she is cussing at everyone (II.I.55-60). To summarize, Puck causes disarray for the innocent people of Athens just to have fun and make Oberon …show more content…
Firstly, Puck accidentally applies the flower's juice on Lysander eyelids instead of Demetrius (II.II.78-82). Lysander no longer loves Hermia anymore and announces his love to Helena in front of Hermia and Demetrius (III.II.245-46). This causes problems because Hermia believed that Lysander loved her yet, he leaves her for Helena and that makes Hermia sad and mad at Helena thinking she stole her love (III.II.284). Secondly, due to Lysander now loving Helena as well as Demetrius loving her, they want to fight each other for her love (III.II.330-37). Demetrius and Lysander plan to fight in the forest which makes the play violent and causes problems because they used to be friends and now they continuously argue over love. Thirdly, Helena is upset because she believes that this is all just a cruel plan between Demetrius, Lysander, and Hermia (III.II.145-46). This causes chaos because now Helena is accusing Hermia for just being a rude and careless friend (III.II.195). Helena and Hermia's friendship is getting ruined due to Puck's misuse of magic. They were childhood friends and did everything together (III.I.199-215) but, now that Puck mistakenly placed the flower's juice onto Lysander's eyelids, they are hating each other (III.II.295-98). To conclude, Puck's misuse of magic is affecting the lover's relationships and making them want to fight each
The play starts out with Lysander and Demetrius fighting over Hermia, while Helena chases after Demetrius, but Puck and Oberon changed that up by using the flower’s potion. The characters in AMSND struggled making decisions due to not realizing what occurred in reality and what occurred in dreams. Because the love potion was used, the characters lose sight of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most popular and frequently performed comical plays (Berardinelli). The play transformed into a cinematic production by Michael Hoffman has not changed in its basic plot and dialogue, but the setting and some character traits have. The play setting has been gracefully moved from 16th century Greece to 19th century Tuscany (Berardinelli). The addition of bicycles to the play affects the characters in that they no longer have to chase each other around the woods, but can take chase in a more efficient fashion. As far as characters are concerned, Demetrius is no longer the smug and somewhat rude character we find in act 1, scene 1 (Shakespeare pg. 6, line 91), but rather a seemingly indifferent gentleman placed in an unfortunate circumstance set to delay his wedding to Hermia. Perhaps the most noticeable change in the character set from stage to film occurs in the characters of Puck and Nick Bottom.
When Puck mistakenly applies the love potion to Lysander’s eyelids. At this point, both male characters of the main plot have fallen in love with Helena, leaving Hermia out of balance. The struggle of the four lovers is one of the more complicated conflicts in the play. The conflict could have been avoided if Puck had not misused his magic. However, because Puck mistakenly used his magic on Lysander, conflict erupted.
Act 2 scene 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, sets up the third plot and third set of characters. This scene also will set the comedy scenario in the windows dealing with the lovers. The first part of the scene with Faery Queen Titania and Faery King Oberon have fought over a “changeling” that Titania has taken under her wing. Their conflict has upset the balance of the universe causing seasons to go out of sorts on Earth. This develops the theme of absurdity of love that is seen with the flower juice that Puck places on the lovers.
The play by William Shakespeare called A Midsummer Night’s dream, it includes some of the most crucial characters that go by the names of Puck and Nick Bottom. They have more in common than most of the characters in the play. For instance, they both behaved in the same manner. Nevertheless, these two have their distinctness. Puck is acknowledged to be a supernatural being. Basically, his status is way beyond higher than Bottom’s. He endures life with lots of energy. Bottom is a craftsman. He is also self-centered. Puck was the reason why everything was a catastrophe and most of the reason for all of the deceptiveness during the whole
Fairies and the remaining fairies of the play, Puck does not seem to fit in as
Puck causes the disruption initially, when he intervenes in the lovers' business. Jester and jokester, Puck, otherwise known as Robin Goodfellow, is like a wild, untamed memb...
One fool is Puck, the servant of the king of the fairies, and the other fool is Bottom, one of the actors hired to perform for the duke and his bride. Puck becomes one of the important roles within the play. He causes conflict by playing pranks on the other characters. Puck plays two major pranks within the play. He and Oberon decide that they want to use a love potion on Titania, the queen of the fairies. He decides to make her fall in love with a “monster” by changing Bottom’s head into the head of an ass. He does this just for his own enjoyment. The other prank he plays is at the end when he is asking the crowd for forgiveness for what he’s done. When doing this, he ends by telling the audience that everything that was just witnessed was just a
Puck, or Robin Goodfellow is an interesting character who plays a huge roll in Midsummer night’s dream. By causing troubles he helps with the statement of “The course of true love never did run smooth”. Puck’s existence reminds audience the dark side of life. In his
Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream Phoenix Falconer-Pincus 1411588 Midsummer Night’s Dream adequately explores all that is not human through the character of Puck. A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows four humans I their journey to find love, with the help and influence of magical creatures along the way. Puck, being the jester to Oberon, is a mischievous character that enables the play’s complicated and chaotic plot. Throughout the play we see how in Puck’s lack of ‘humanness” highlights the limits of being human.
This shows how driven by her love for Demetrius that Helena lets her love thrive on his punishment of her. And this only gets crazier once the love potion drives Lysander and Demetrius to love Helena, and then Hermia is enraged by her negligence, and hops onto Lysander: “Away, you Ethiope!”...”Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent” (MSND Act III, scene ii, lines 264-269). This is how maddened everyone gets just by the switch of
Puck is the fairy who serves Oberon, the Fairy King. Puck creates a fun and playful tone to the story by playing practical jokes on the villagers. Unlike Bottom, Puck is actually very insightful and intelligent; however, Puck likes to go his own way and not follow directions. In Act 3 scene 1, Puck says,
Lysander loves Hermia but do to magic he might change his mind. Lysander changes by having a magic flower juice put in his eyes by puck which makes him fall in love with Helena. Puck says, "Churl upon thy eyes I throw, all the power this charm doth owe,when thou wakest,let love forbid,sleep his seat on thy eyelid, so awake when I am gone, for I must now to Oberon." This made Lysander fall in love with Helena when he saw her.Furthermore this also happens
Puck has the final speech in the play and speaks directly to the audience; he refers to himself and his fellow actors as shadows within a dream, this reminds us that we have been part of an illusion just like the characters in the play. He ends asking the audience to clap this signals the end of the performance, and the illusion created by ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’.
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy of errors, a narrative form that relies on slapstick and chaos for its humor. Magic potions, enchanted lovers, and a mischievous fairy named Puck combine to create a play as funny as it is romantic.