Puck as an Intermediary Between the Human and Fairy World Works Cited Missing To find out in what ways is Puck an intermediary between the human and fairy worlds? I will gaze back in to the history and connotation of the person and the word Puck. Puck is a popular character in the British folklore of the previous hundreds of years. Many different types of people have referred to Puck, each with a unique type of dialect and colloquialism. These in turn bring a different name, imagery and their concept and view of the ideals of spirits and magic. Puck is a familiar character throughout European folklore. Therefore, the audience would be familiar with him and his character. This means Puck is a very versatile character as he has many different persona; he could be played as an evil and sadistically malevolent person 'frights the maiden of the villagery' (2:1:40); or a happy jester type persona, just looking to entertain 'merry wanderer of the night'; or a childish spirit 'merry wanderer of the night' this shows Puck lacks direction. 'Wanderer' meaning to go from place to place without a settled destination or special purpose. Maybe Puck is simply an energetic child who gets into trouble if he does not have an activity to occupy his imagination or the consequences will be mischievous and unpleasant. This orchestrates the reasoning behind the attack on the aesthetics of Nick Bottom. 'I'll be an auditor, an actor to perhaps if I see cause' this means Puck will make mischief when the artisans are acting. 'Auditor' means he will listen and watch for his chance for mischief. 'Actor too perhaps' he will join in probably in a mischievous way.... ... middle of paper ... ... you befriend him with your applause, he will befriend you with his magic. Puck gives a fitting end to the play, as the audience has come to love the little fellow known as Robin Goodfellow. He tells them the morals behind the play. He does this in a melodical way, Shakespeare does this because the audience already knows that when Puck speaks in blank verse he is serious and not happy. So Shakespeare gives them the happy rhythmic Puck, which will give the audience something they can be at ease with. Puck is an intermediary; he joins the fairy world and the human world. He does this through verse with rhyming and blank verse, and many metaphors. He also does this through dialogue with other characters such as a fairy and Oberon. He makes a fitting and good intermediary because he is involved in every story line.
In his evaluation of Little Red Riding Hood, Bill Delaney states, “In analyzing a story . . . it is often the most incongruous element that can be the most revealing.” To Delaney, the most revealing element in Little Red Riding Hood is the protagonist’s scarlet cloak. Delaney wonders how a peasant girl could own such a luxurious item. First, he speculates that a “Lady Bountiful” gave her the cloak, which had belonged to her daughter. Later, however, Delaney suggests that the cloak is merely symbolic, perhaps representing a fantasy world in which she lives.
... featured one last time in the epilogue to this scene, where he tells the audience that if they do not enjoy the play, they should think of it as nothing more than a dream. If the audience does enjoy the play, they should give Puck "their hands," or applaud. Thus Puck is cleaning up for more than the fairies problems in the last soliloquy, as he cleans up for the entire play as well. Both of the fools were necessary in this play. Puck's tricks and loyalty makes Oberon's goals and the happiness of the lovers possible. Bottom's foolishness provides for comedy for both the characters in the play and the audience, and it’s his transformation which enables Oberon to obtain the boy from Titania. Puck, Oberon's fool, and Bottom, the fool of the play, both provide comedy and some-what intelligent observations, which make them an important part of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
...Anybody can relate somebody to Bottom as there is a tendency for some people to have his characteristics such as, overconfidence. On the other hand both characters have important roles within the play as Bottom’s profession is a weaver and how he comfortably merges both human and fairy world together and is the only character able to do so. Bottom shows the readers that he shouldn’t play by the rules all of the time and he takes advantage of any opportunity he gets –this blurs out the sectors between each social class in reality. Puck makes sure that the viewers have good time whilst creating chaos with various characters, especially the lovers. Puck is the one to end the play which he states it is unreal and is like a “dream” which is amusing because he is a supernatural character as if we are being hypnotised or brainwashed into forgetting about what had happened.
The fairy world then comes into contact with the world of the young lovers. Mischievous Puck causes further complications when he uses magic to anoint a young Athenian male’s eyes, who is in fact the wrong Athenian that Oberon assigned Puck. Puck misuses magic when he plays a silly prank on Bottom who is one of the Mechanicals, by giving Bottom a head of an ass. Strangely Titania falls in love with the creature that Puck has created. This results in Oberon becoming extreamly fu...
Puck causes the disruption initially, when he intervenes in the lovers' business. Jester and jokester, Puck, otherwise known as Robin Goodfellow, is like a wild, untamed memb...
Out, cur! Thou dravest me past the bounds Of maiden’s patience. Hast thou slain him, then? Henceforth be never numbered among men. O, once tell true! Tell true, even for my sake! Durst thou have looked upon him, being awake? And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O brave touch! Could not a worm, an adder, do so much? An adder did it, for with doubler tongue Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.Puck enchants the four lovers with the love potion while they are sleeping when they wake up Helena and Hermia are confused from Lysanders and Demetrious behavior .If puck wouldn't have abused his power in magic this wouldn't have happened .Puck puts potion on Lysander’s eyes (Act II.scene ii. 78-80) and in this one action turns these relationships upside down.THis is evidence that Puck and Oberon obuse magic and thereby Impact the four lovers.In conclusion Magic has impacted many people in the play but comparte to everybody else the four lovers are the most affected by this .
She groaned as the sharp pain rose to the side of her head. The hockey ball had hit pretty hard as she slowly felt a slight blankness in her mind. From afar, she noticed people staring with worried faces, making her more embarrassed than she already was; a flush of red glowing on her cheeks. Her friends had called her name out but a sudden low tone nearly made her jolt.
Fairy Tales are made of many different ideas. There is no exact author because there are many versions. The beauty about Tales is that anybody can make it their own. Because ones imagination is unique, many come up with ideas to slightly alter the tale to make it their very own. very always leave the readers thinking, and leaves the reader to interpret a moral. There are many different lessons an audience can take from just one tale. However, Different versions of “Snow White” are comparable to each other because they all show the positive and negative aspects of the expectations that society has on each gender.
Once back at the bar, Rapunzel placed her hand against the counter, her fingers tapping against the counter. Her head bobbing along to the tone of the music. Her eyes studied the crowded dance floor, she watched as more and more people squeezed their ways out onto the dance floor. She shook her head from side to side, she wondered just how many people were going to try and squeeze their way onto the dance floor. She was for sure this party was going to last all night, which meant a lot of business for the club. She tilted her head from side to side, a sigh escaping her lips.
Fairy tales have been read to children for many years by parents hoping these tales of heroines and heroes would provide a fun and interesting way to teach moral and values. Fairy tales provide children with a fun and entertaining way to deal with strangers. Children learn that when you don’t follow the rule and talk to mysterious strangers you’re put into situation that can cause pain or suffering to others.
...slapshot from the point. Two minutes later the puck broke loose from one of the other team's defensman and landed on our most talented player’s stick. He is not only as fast as lightning but can also stick handle around any NHL team blindfolded. He made a quick move to the left, and then to the right. He took the shot which went top shelf on the right side. The second I saw the net move I knew we had done it. The underdog team defeated the 1st ranked team in the state championship game for Missouri high school hockey. An uproar from the mob of people could have been heard from two miles away. I couldn’t believe we had done it. We beat the odds, and took the cup. I felt shivers travel down my bruised and cut body. The hard work did pay off, for we had done it. The tears were flowing like the water dropping from the Niagara Falls. We were State Champions.
To emphasize, in Act III, the reader is presented with the play’s most extraordinary contrast, the relationship between Titania and Bottom. “What wakes me from my flow’ry bed?” (III.i.131). Titania is awoken by the so-called melodic singing of Bottom. In the present scene, both characters are under some particular sort of spell. Titania’s eyes were anointed with the nectar of the love flower, thus causing her to fall in love with the next living thing she encounters. In the meantime, Puck pulled a prank on Bottom, turning his head into that of an ass. Both characters of the play are interpreted as complete opposites. Titania, characterized as the beautiful, graceful fairy queen; Bottom is portrayed as overdramatic, self centered, and as of now, not keen on the eyes. However, the love nectar never fails and seems to bring the two into a state of lust. The contrast between the two is overwhelming. An important scene in the pl...
Over centuries, fairy tales were passed down by word of mouth to portray a story with a hidden meaning. As these fairy tales were passed on they traveled to different destinations and were modified to conform to other cultures. One example of this is the story of Grapnel. Most people are familiar with the Brothers Grimm version of Rapunzel; however, an earlier variant that comes from Italy was the forerunner to the Grimm version. The Italian version, Petrosinella, written by Giambattista Basile, is an example of how culture has an influence on literature. Although this is the case, both fairy tale versions portray jungian archetypes that are often misinterpreted by mainstream portrayals of these fairy tales.
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is often read as a dramatization of the incompatibility of “reason and love” (III.i. 127), yet many critics pay little attention to how Shakespeare manages to draw his audience into meditating on these notions independently (Burke 116). The play is as much about the conflict between passion and reason concerning love, as it is a warning against attempting to understand love rationally. Similarly, trying to understand the play by reason alone results in an impoverished reading of the play as a whole – it is much better suited to the kind of emotive, arbitrary understanding that is characteristic of dreams. Puck apologises directly to us, the audience, in case the play “offend[s]” us, but the primary offence we can take from it is to our rational capacity to understand the narrative, which takes place in a world of inverses and contrasts. The fantastical woods is contrasted to the order of the Athenian law, and Elizabethan values of the time are polarised throughout the narrative, such as Helena’s feeling ugly even though she is tall and fair. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is thus not solely a comedic meditation on the nature of the origin or meaning of love, it also cautions against trying to rationalise the message of the play. Puck, who by his very nature cannot exist in rational society, propels the action of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is a manifestation of mischief and the unpredictability of nature, which governs not only the fantastical woods outside of Athens, but also the Athenians themselves when it comes to love. Yet, it is Puck, and thus nature, which rectifies the imbalance of the lovers in the beginning of the play. Rationalising, o...
Fairies and the remaining fairies of the play, Puck does not seem to fit in as