Examples Of Puck In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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In a mid-summer nights dream by William Shakespeare puck is portrayed as mischievous but joyful character an example of puck being a bad character is when he turned bottoms head into an asses head he did this for his own enjoyment. another example of puck being a bad character is when he made Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia and Helena fall in love with the wrong people. Puck will never own up to responsibility or admit to his wrong doing.

When puck turned bottoms head into an asses head he thought it was humorous and did it over his own enjoyment although, his master Oberon did in fact want his wife Titania to fall in love with any creature for his amusement. As Oberon was very angry at Titania, so it just so happened that Titania woke up and Bottom was the first creature in sight. puck was ordered to retrieve the flower for Oberon so puck was part of Oberon’s doing and puck would do it anytime. puck doesn’t feel sorry and doesn’t want to make things better with titania. When he was changing bottoms head into an asses he said “My mistress with a monster is in love”.
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This shows that puck is a bad character and that he will not do any pleasant thing willingly or on purpose. The only time that puck does something nice is when Oberon his master tells him to, puck has to listen to Oberon. Puck almost never takes responsibility for what he has done. When puck had to fix what he had done he made them believe this was all a dream which is not owning up to what he had

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