Examples Of Puck In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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In the story A Midsummer Night’s dream, there are many characters. The story has a general serious mood but Puck lightens the mood, pulls pranks, and makes a lot of mistakes. To be around Puck is a recipe for disaster. Puck is a very important character in the story A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is characterized as being mischievous, clumsy, and loyal.
Puck is mischievous in many ways. The first example of Puck being mischievous is when he changes Bottom’s head into a head of an ass: “An ass's nole I fixed on his head.” (Shakespeare 32) Puck does this as a prank because he enjoys playing tricks on mortals and fairies alike. One reason he chose to turn “Bottom’s” head into an ass, is because ass is a synonym for Bottom. Puck states-“Titania

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