He invokes the "damned spirits" that wander home to graveyards after a night of evil doing, while Oberon reminds him that his band of fairies are aligned with the morning dew, with sunlight and joy. Unlike Oberon who genuinely tries to create human happiness, Puck seems indifferent to human suffering. When he has accidentally caused both Lysander and Demetrius to fall in love with Helena, Puck enjoys the pleasure their folly brings him.
Although he restores the proper lovers to each other, he does so only at Oberon's request, not out of any feelings of remorse. Similarly, Oberon feels repentance for Titania's idiotic love for Bottom, but Puck doesn't. Main Part 2. Background and Tradition 2. Functions 3. Summary and conclusion 1. Background and Tradition Abbildung in dieser Leseprobe nicht enthalten 21st century Disney Puck 2 3 Puck or Robin Goodfellow was well known to the Elizabethan audience since he was one of the most popular supernatural beings in the English folklore.
Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck: Are not you he? Puck: Thou speak'st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon and make him smile When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a filly foal: And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab, And when she drinks, against her lips I bob And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale, Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me; Then slip I from her bum, down topples she, And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough; And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh, [ Sign in to write a comment.
Read the ebook. The fairy mythology in William Shakes Structure and Chaos: Binary Pairs in The play within the play: Ovid's Individual and State in William Shake Betrachtung der Liebespaare in Willia One example of this is when Oberon sends Puck to fetch a love potion and use it on the Athenian lovers to stop them from bickering. The mistake was made without malice, but it was still an error, and Puck never really accepts responsibility for it.
He continues to blame the lovers ' behavior on their own foolishness. In Act Three, Scene Two he says:. Later in the play, Oberon sends Puck out to fix his mistake. The forest is magically plunged into darkness and Puck imitates the voices of the lovers to lead them astray.
This time he successfully smears the love potion on the eyes of Lysander, who thus falls back in love with Hermia. The lovers are made to believe that the entire affair was a dream, and in the final passage of the play, Puck encourages the audience to think the same.
He apologizes to the audience for any "misunderstanding," which re-establishes him as a likable, good character although not exactly a heroic one. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. If we have unearned luck. We will make amends ere long;. Else the Puck a liar call:. So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends,.
And Robin shall restore amends. These lines essentially connect the audience with the play and compares them to the lovers who in the play did also awake from the mad happenings of the fairy world as if from a dream. Puck represents the difficulties of love, the power of magic, the nature of dreams and the relationships between fantasy and reality.
One of the aspects that may draw attention is that although Puck seems to appear with most of the characters, he only interacts with Oberon, his master. For Puck, love is either a nuisance played more evil than good or just a funny thing that humans and other beings stupid enough to fall into it do to show him a laughing good time. As he puts it,. I will lead them up and down:. Goblin, lead them up and down. No Puck, no Play. How can a character that is not present in most of the play be regarded as the main one?
The answer is really easy and simple: because without his mistakes, the plot is lost and senseless. Because without his mischief, the play would not be a comedy. Puck is the one who ties and unties, deforms and creates as he pleases. And although he has created all that chaos, at the end he resolves his mistakes by restoring the love balance in the two couples of lovers, impossible without his intervention. As Puck is magic, all happened was magic too, and as he is Puck, everybody will be given good luck!
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