The Living Shinanagin In A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck The Living Shinanagin
Do you ever have that one strange friends that likes making practical jokes and pranks? Well he just might get along with a character from A Midsummer Night's Dream which was created by William Shakespeare.
A midsummer night's Dream takes place when Hermia wants to marry Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. She and lysander decide to run away so that they can be married but is told their plan by a friend of Hermia’s, Helena. Helena has a thing for Demetrius but he doesn’t feel the same way. Since Oberon is already trying to solve a problem with his wife he decides to try and help fix this one using a magic love flower. It has a couple of trails and errors but it all works out in the end. However at the end it is revealed by the character Robin Goodfellow that the entire play was a dream.
Robin (or Puck) is a really strange character. He likes to play pranks on innocent people and animals just for the fun of it. He is very funny and loyal too. Robin however can be accident prone but he also believes whatever is meant to be will be. He lastly makes love look fickle and unsure. Let’s identify this quirky character …show more content…
Puck was sent to sprinkle love juice on Titania’s and demetrius’ eyes, even after he messed up he just played along because of fate but when lysander, demetrius, and Titania kept on changing their point of view on who they like this cause a lot of chaos. Shakespeare wrote the book this way in order for Robin to make a point that love is fickle and blind. For example, when Robin made Titania fall in love with Bottom when he looked like a donkey this is an example of love being blind, and later Titania was woken up by Oberon and quickly changed her tune on how she felt towards him: “My Oberon, what visions have I seen! / Methought I was enamored of an ass.” (4. 1. 59-60) and: “How came these things to pass? / Oh, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!” (4. 1.
Do you ever have that one strange friends that likes making practical jokes and pranks? Well he just might get along with a character from A Midsummer Night's Dream which was created by William Shakespeare.
A midsummer night's Dream takes place when Hermia wants to marry Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. She and lysander decide to run away so that they can be married but is told their plan by a friend of Hermia’s, Helena. Helena has a thing for Demetrius but he doesn’t feel the same way. Since Oberon is already trying to solve a problem with his wife he decides to try and help fix this one using a magic love flower. It has a couple of trails and errors but it all works out in the end. However at the end it is revealed by the character Robin Goodfellow that the entire play was a dream.
Robin (or Puck) is a really strange character. He likes to play pranks on innocent people and animals just for the fun of it. He is very funny and loyal too. Robin however can be accident prone but he also believes whatever is meant to be will be. He lastly makes love look fickle and unsure. Let’s identify this quirky character …show more content…
Puck was sent to sprinkle love juice on Titania’s and demetrius’ eyes, even after he messed up he just played along because of fate but when lysander, demetrius, and Titania kept on changing their point of view on who they like this cause a lot of chaos. Shakespeare wrote the book this way in order for Robin to make a point that love is fickle and blind. For example, when Robin made Titania fall in love with Bottom when he looked like a donkey this is an example of love being blind, and later Titania was woken up by Oberon and quickly changed her tune on how she felt towards him: “My Oberon, what visions have I seen! / Methought I was enamored of an ass.” (4. 1. 59-60) and: “How came these things to pass? / Oh, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!” (4. 1.