Use of Puck to Explore Love in A Midsummer Nights Dream Essay

Love is a imperishable topic. It will forever be the theme of popular entertainment and beginning of confusion for men and women alike. No one understands this better than William Shakespeare, and he much explores this complex emotion in his plays. In A Midsummer iniquitys Dream Shakespeare cleverly reveals the fickle and inebriating aspects of love through his perverting character Puck.Though Puck adds much humor to the play plot tormenting and drugging the lovers in the forest, he too acts as a gas pedal in redirecting their devotions among one-another, thus demonstrating the fickle nature of love. For example, Lysander, who in one nictation is blindly in love with his fair Hermia, will suddenly invoke to find himself obsessed with Helena. Without questioning this drastic alteration, he boldly proclaims to Helena, cloy with Hermia? No, I do repent /The tedious minutes I with her need spent. /Not Hermia, but Helena I love. /Who will not change a raven for a dove? (II.i i.118-21). Lysanders drugged enunciate (courtesy of Puck) was the source of his apparent change of heart, but even to this day this blunt transformation happens more often than the average person would care to admit. medicine or not, it is in the human nature to desire what isnt ours, and honor the greener grass that our cute neighbor seems to have growing. The reader can also relate to Demetriuss statement, Lysander, keep thy Hermia. I will none. /If eer I loved her, all that love is gone (III.ii.172-73)...