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Fairies In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Mischief, love, confusion, are all words that describe William Shakespeare's comedic play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is about four young Athenian lovers; Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia who get trapped in a forest with fairies causing mischief. One of these mischievous fairies is Puck. Puck is the fairy king, Oberon, henchman. Puck possessives 3 main characteristic; mischievous, loyal and clever fairy. These characteristics come up in many parts in the play. Mischievous is a perfect adjective to describe Puck. He expresses his mischief in numerous places in the play. The first instance of his mischievous side is when Oberon asks Puck to get revenge on Titania,the fairy queen “ The king doth keep his revels here tonight:/Take heed the queen come not within his sight;/For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,/Because that she as her attendant hath/A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;/She never had so sweet a changeling;/And jealous Oberon would have the child/Knight of his train, to trace the forest's …show more content…

His cleverness comes out in many parts of the play. One example of his cleverness is when he is trying to fix the confusion with the four Athenian lovers. While trying to fix the confusion he leads Demetrius and Lysander away from each other by mimicking the others voice, “Here, villain; drawn and ready. Where art thou?” (3.2). Another instance of Puck’s cleverness is when Puck and Oberon and planning how to fix Puck’s mistake, “My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,/For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,/And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;/At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,/Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,/That in crossways and floods have burial,/Already to their wormy beds are gone;/For fear lest day should look their shames upon,/They willfully themselves exile from light/And must for aye consort with black-brow'd

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