Puck And Bottom, And The Fools They Are!

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No matter where you are, no matter who you are, you can always find a fool, but why are they that way? Puck, the character one may refer to as the half-man, half-goat, he is quite the fool and he needs to learn how to use those love potions. Bottom the one who is full of himself and ready for all the parts. When we put them together, we get a foolish duet with the things they do together. In the end, wherever you put these two, something funny will happen, or someone will screw something up; together or not. Puck, or other wise known as Robin Goodfellow, was sympathetic to mortals who were nice to him, he was kind to lovers, and he loved to help house wives keep things nice and tidy. Shakespeare placed this fairy at the center of his play. In tradition, a puck, or the puck was a kind of fairy who was able to change from human form, to an animal form, and also appear as a flickering light to lost travellers in the night. He was named Puck, in tradition to the fairies qualities and attributes. Puck was given a position in the fairy court, his job was to “jest to Oberon, and make him smile” (2, 1, 44). Puck also contributes a lot to the story line because he was sent by Oberon to fetch the flower that was hit by Cupid’s arrow, so he could make a love potion to distract Titania from the little Indian boy of whom Oberon was jealous of, and to also fix the four Athenian lovers who sort of formed a love square. But being the fool he is he accidentally puts the love charm on Lysander instead of Demetrius. He also turns another fool’s, of whom we will speak of later, Nick Bottom, head into the head of an ass, so that Titania would be distracted from the little Indian boy. Later in the play, Puck is ordered to fix his mistakes he has set upon the lovers and Titania. All is good, and Puck makes all the lovers, and Titania believe that all this was a dream, hence the title, A
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