Puck The Fool

Robertson 2 Phillip Robertson

English Comp 1102

20 October 2015

Nathaniel Gilbert

The Fairy and the Fool

The play by William Shakespeare called A Midsummer Night’s dream, it includes some of the most crucial characters that go by the names of Puck and Nick Bottom. They have more in common than most of the characters in the play. For instance, they both behaved in the same manner. Nevertheless, these two have their distinctness. Puck is acknowledged to be a supernatural being. Basically, his status is way beyond higher than Bottom’s. He endures life with lots of energy. Bottom is a craftsman. He is also self-centered. Puck was the reason why everything was a catastrophe and most of the reason for all of the deceptiveness during the whole

Oberon says to Puck that,” Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a Western flower, now purple with love’s wound, Fetch me that flower.” Puck's tricks and loyalty makes Oberon's objectives be met and the satisfaction of the lovers achievable. Bottom’s foolishness brings kind of a comedy relief for not only Bottom but for Puck and the audience as well. It is also his transformation which is the reason why Oberon has the chance to possess the child from Titania. Puck is pretty much the fool of Oberon. Bottom on the other hand is the buffoon of the entire play. They both provided laughter and somewhat bright observations that assembles them an important piece of the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The major similarity between Puck and Bottom is that they both are too over confident about themselves. I would say that Bottom’s confidence is more extreme than Puck’s behavior. Bottom and Puck include images of sleeping and dreaming in a play. An example of Puck is that in one of his sayings, he says, “While these visions did appear and this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream.”(Scene 1 of Act 5)An example of Bottom is that in one of his sayings he states that, “left me asleep! I have had a rare vision. I have had a dream.”(Scene 1 of Act

It is there structure of speech. Bottom does not speak in any definite rhyme. Basically, his speech does not rhyme. Puck on the other hand speaks in rhyme. In Act two, scene one is an example of his speech structure. It is his short conversation with Robin. “Either I mistake your shape and making quite, or else you are that shrewd and knavish Sprite. Skim milk, and sometimes labor in the quern, and bootless make the breathless housewife churn. And sometime make the drink to bear no barm, Mislead night- wanderers, laughing at their harm?”(Act 2, Scene 1)

Puck and Bottom behave very much alike, and have similar roles for different people. Both Puck and Bottom are comic relief characters in one way or the other. They were there to create atmospheres of laughter from the audience. Both of them are needed for the play, because Puck’s spirits controls the whole story, which sets the tone for it and Bottoms comic relief for the audience and