Puck In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Supporting characters, who help out the main characters, are not given similar spotlight as major characters do even when they are the important source of revelation in the story. They help guide the main character in creating the major plot and even offer hope, a new perspective, and principal themes of the story. A comedy play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written by William Shakespeare portrays unskilled actors playing Pyramus and Thisbe and the adventure of four young star-crossed lovers against a misguided parent and the lovers interactions with the world of the Fairy King and Queen. Within the plot, Puck, a fairy, is a minor character that serves the king of the fairies, Oberon. Throughout the play, Puck is given important orders from Oberon such as fetching flower with magic love juice to humiliate his wife, sprinkling the juice in the “Athenian man’s” eyes to fix the main characters’ love problem, …show more content…

He is ordered to sprinkle the magic love juice in the “Athenian man’s” eyes to fix the main characters’ love problem by Oberon. Through miscommunication and unclearness of the direction, Puck accidently puts the love juice into a different Athenian man’s eyes making the love relationship more complicated. He finds this out through Oberon when he comments, “What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken quite, and laid the love juice on some true love’s sight. Of thy misprision must perforce ensue some true love turned, and not a false turned true” (III.ii.90-94). When the fate of the lovers completely changes, he creates the main conflict in the story because without him, the plot would have ended with one single drop of love juice fixing the star-crossed-ness between the lovers. However, with the mistake that Puck makes while trying to achieve the solution it develops the conflict continuing the story line. Thus, making Puck an important character because he is the one who expands the major

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