Mischievous and Magical Puck
In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the character Puck is a very mischievous and magical figure that causes a great deal of chaos throughout the play. Puck carelessly places the magical “love juice” on the young lovers’ eyes, causing mass confusion. Puck also mischievously uses his magical powers to transform himself into animals and forces of nature to follow Bottom through the forest, only to transform his head into that of an ass. Through the many mischievous things that Puck does, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is given a comic relief in his character! Oberon gave Puck specific orders to spread the “love juice” from the “love-in-idleness” flower carefully on an Athenian man. As Puck moved about the forest, his mischievousness overcame him and he began to grow impatient about applying the love juice.