Puck Character sketch
A Midsummer Night’s Dream-Character Sketch Essay-Puck
Puck is a sprite in Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He serves the fairy king Oberon; Puck is his court jester. He is very obedient and loyal to Oberon; Puck does every task he asks him to do. Puck is a trickster and joker; he plays many tricks on people. In the play Shakespeare introduces him as a “shrewd and Knavish sprite...” (2.1.35). Also as “that merry wanderer of the night” (2.2.45). Puck is the one who creates the drama between the lovers; Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena by messing up who loves whom, as well as placing an ass head on Bottom’s head and making Titania fall in love with him. Puck only does all these tricks on Oberon’s commands. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck shows that he is mischievous, loyal, and compassionate. Puck is shown to be a source of chaos throughout the play but in the end he brings everything back to order.
One of Puck’s main character traits is mischievousness. Pucks mischievous character is shown when Pucks fellow fairy friend calls him, “that shrewd and knavish sprite (2.2.34). Shrewd in this case means a tendency to cause harm, and knavish means mischievous. Therefore Pucks fellow fairy friend is accusing him for being devilish and mischievous. Both Puck and his friend go on to describe the different antics Puck has been known for; scaring the woman in the village, stealing the cream from the milk and making the ladies churn not produce butter: Either I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Called Robin-Goodfellow. Are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery Skim milk, and sometimes labor in the quern And bootless make the breathless huswife churn (2.1.33-38)
He brings a somewhat chaotic element to Titainia and Oberon’s seemingly benevolent fairy realm. He invokes the “damned spirits” that wander home to
Puck is a sprite in Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He serves the fairy king Oberon; Puck is his court jester. He is very obedient and loyal to Oberon; Puck does every task he asks him to do. Puck is a trickster and joker; he plays many tricks on people. In the play Shakespeare introduces him as a “shrewd and Knavish sprite...” (2.1.35). Also as “that merry wanderer of the night” (2.2.45). Puck is the one who creates the drama between the lovers; Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena by messing up who loves whom, as well as placing an ass head on Bottom’s head and making Titania fall in love with him. Puck only does all these tricks on Oberon’s commands. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck shows that he is mischievous, loyal, and compassionate. Puck is shown to be a source of chaos throughout the play but in the end he brings everything back to order.
One of Puck’s main character traits is mischievousness. Pucks mischievous character is shown when Pucks fellow fairy friend calls him, “that shrewd and knavish sprite (2.2.34). Shrewd in this case means a tendency to cause harm, and knavish means mischievous. Therefore Pucks fellow fairy friend is accusing him for being devilish and mischievous. Both Puck and his friend go on to describe the different antics Puck has been known for; scaring the woman in the village, stealing the cream from the milk and making the ladies churn not produce butter: Either I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Called Robin-Goodfellow. Are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery Skim milk, and sometimes labor in the quern And bootless make the breathless huswife churn (2.1.33-38)
He brings a somewhat chaotic element to Titainia and Oberon’s seemingly benevolent fairy realm. He invokes the “damned spirits” that wander home to