Midsummer Nights Dream

        An Essay on William Shakespear's A Midsummer Night's Dream         The role and character of Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, is not only entertaining but quite useful.         William Shakespeare seems to have created the character of Puck from his own childhood. In Shakespeare's time it was believed that fairies and little people did exist. Whenever something went wrong around the farmyard or house or village, incidents such as buckets of milk 'accidentally' …

…fate and destiny were the cause of all the joy, sadness and badluck.         When William Shakespeare created 'Puck' it seems as though the play got much more out of the character than intended. This is nice however, as the audience we tend to like Puck and follow him in a light-hearted, amused manner. The character of Puck keeps the play rolling and everything turns out well in the end, unlike many other plays of Shakespeare.