ENGL100A Lecture Notes - Joiner, Tom Snout, Francis Flute
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Puck - also known as robin goodfellow, puck is oberon"s jester, a mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals. Though a midsummer night"s dream divides its action between several groups of characters, puck is the closest thing the play has to a protagonist. His enchanting, mischievous spirit pervades the atmosphere, and his antics are responsible for many of the complications that propel the other main plots: he mistakes the young athenians, applying the love potion to lysander instead of. Demetrius, thereby causing chaos within the group of young lovers; he also transforms bottom"s head into that of an ass. Oberon - the king of the fairies, oberon is initially at odds with his wife, titania, because she refuses to relinquish control of a young indian prince whom he wants for a knight. Titania leads him to send puck to obtain the love-potion flower that creates so much of the play"s confusion and farce.