Who Is Puck In A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of William Shakespeare’s few comedies that really gets the comedic interest of is readers. A fairytale story of four teenagers, who found themselves in a magical forest, two of whom plan to run off and start a new life together, the other two on a search for love. At the same time a fairy king and queen are battling each other. A mischievous fairy named Puck is charged with turning the queens lover against her using a magic potion, and this leads to a series of events for our young lovers, as well as anyone else stuck in the forest.

Puck is the most interesting of all characters. As a fairy Puck has many appearances, which he employs to cause mischief. The mischievous fairy sets most of the plays events with magic. Although Puck serves his master, the fairy king Oberon, he still has his own charm that he uses not just for his master, but for his own personal purposes, which are usually for

pleasure. A view of puck can be seen or related to as the role of cupid or at least one of his underlings, as he essentially brings love to peoples lives. If taken if that view, although the idea was Oberon’s, the task was not as important for him to take care of himself, thus he entrusts Puck to take care of the Athenians. Puck does his best, but as it seems his personality wins or overshadows whatever he is trying to accomplish even without trying he creates a mess rather than love. Puck makes such a mess that Oberon has to step in and undo what puck did, which had he done the work himself, would never have happened. Another way to view the character of puck is as others see him, a fairy and Oberon knows that Puck is a mischief-maker and still depends on him to do the right thing. Making a mess of things is right for puck, which leads to the events in the forest. However, Oberon is relying on this character when he makes Tatiana fall in love for Bottom, whom was turned into an ass.
Puck is basically Oberon’s servant, but is clearly more in charge of what happens than Oberon is.

Puck doesn’t care what goes on, as long as it is funny and amusing to him he feels good. He doesn’t feel sorry for what he did in the forest as Oberon does; he enjoys teasing them. Puck is cruel and mischievous, but in a weird way is good hearted. He tries his very best to correct his first mistakes with the love potion and after having his fun he fixes it. He also asks the audience to show him mercy, and in doing this he is mindful of what he has done and feels guilty. The comedic or satirical side of the play is built around Puck and Someone who asks for forgiveness after causing so much chaos and injuries throughout the play isn’t a bed person, mischievous like an imp but yet kindles a lot of drama and excitement, nowadays they pay a lot to be a reality star, because he is the play, he is the plot and without him, it would be any other normal or brilliant Shakespeare play involving lovers who overcome several difficulties to be together in the

end.
Pucks ability could be something taken out from a superhero comic, not only can he transform into different things, he can also change his voice as when he mimicked different voices and called out to Demetrius and Lysander in the woods. Pucks main role as the go-to guy is to entertain Oberon. As puck says, my duty is to “jest to Oberon and make him smile” (1.i2.1.3). Although pucks role is pivotal in the play and is most times appears to be with other characters, he really only interacts with Oberon, but his role and actions are necessary for the plot between the other characters. Puck really could be seen as the voodoo priest who plays with real people as if they were his dolls. He uses his knowledge of peoples weaknesses, in this case love to work as he says, “lord, what fools these mortals be!” It is puck that really brings the chaotic atmosphere. He whizzes around the globe (in forty minutes no less) to fetch Oberon’s magic love juice (2.i), and when he mistakenly drips the juice on Lysander’s eyes (2.ii), he triggers a series of events in the forest. After turning the Athenians world in chaos, puck is the one who has to clean up his mess and makes things right. Puck having fixed everything ensures things end, as they should.
In summary, one of the most interesting thoughts is how a character can be observed as the pivotal or main one when he is absent for majority of the play. Puck makes the plot and development of the play through his mischief, without the mistakes this would not be a comedy. Although he creates the mess and has to fix it all in the end by returning the couples to their respective lovers, impossible without his mischief.