Puck: The Harmless Devil

Robin Goodfellow, also known as Puck or Hobgoblin, is a merry sprite, represented as “a very Shetlander among the gossamer-winged, dainty-limbed fairies, strong enough to knock all their heads together, a rough, knurly-limbed, fawn-faced, shock-pated, mischievous little urchin”. Since Puck has no human feelings, he has no precise human meaning. He is strategic in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as he is seen not only as a spectator of the plays happenings, but as a commentator and interpreter of the plays actions.
Puck brings about the confusion of the young Athenians as he tries to carry out Oberon’s wishes; the king has taken pity on Helena and hopes to turn Demetrius scorn for her into love. Puck simply enchants the first male he sees, not realizing that it is the wrong person. Here is introduced the fact that just because he is a supernatural being...