Examples Of Puck In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Shakespeare Character Analysis: Puck

In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck is a spiteful devil, also known as Hobgoblin and Robin Goodfellow, who works for the fairy King, Oberon. Puck is troublesome, and likes to fool around with people to annoy them. Examples of this are shown all throughout Act 3, like “ The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort, who Pyramus presented, in their sport—Forsook his scheme, and enter’d in a brake/ An ass’s nole I fixed on his head”(3.2.13-17). His temptation to cause mischief led his to put on a donkey’s head on Bottom, simply because he had nothing better to do. Robin Goodfellow can be puckish, but he make genuine mistakes as well. “Believe me, king

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