Lesson Summary. Puck and
Oberon reprimands Puck for anointing the wrong Athenian with the love juice. To correct the situation, Oberon sends Puck in search of Helena and then squeezes the magic potion into the cold-hearted Demetrius' eyes.
While carrying out Oberon's instructions to relieve Helena's distress, Puck mistakenly puts the love potion into the wrong Athenians' eyes. Puck casts the love spell on Lysander instead of Demetrius, which sets off as series of mishaps.
Puck is jester and servant to Oberon, and most of his conversations are with his fairy lord. Oberon greets him in a variety of ways.
The mischievous, quick-witted sprite sets many of the play's events in motion with his magic, by means of both deliberate pranks on the human characters (transforming Bottom's head into that of an ass) and unfortunate mistakes (smearing the love potion on Lysander's eyelids instead of Demetrius's).
Puck is loyal to Oberon and follows his commands, but he is not afraid to argue with the King and defend himself. Puck uses very direct language here in repeating Oberon's instructions, that he would know the man by the Athenian clothes he was wearing.
Oberon, Titania and Puck in the 1970 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Puck is Oberon's servant. At the start of the play we find him showing off to another fairy about the mischievous tricks he's played on humans.
At one point, Light's Oberon seizes and manhandles Puck into a kiss. In both of these versions, Oberon's virility matches Titania's frankly carnal relationship with Bottom. But while Oberon and Titania exude sexuality, Puck remains playfully sexless: ethereally so, for the Globe; rebelliously so, for the Guthrie.
Oberon blames Titania; if she would simply relinquish the Indian boy, peace would be restored. Titania refuses to let the boy go because his mother was a close friend of hers, and when she died in childbirth, Titania agreed to raise her son.
Biography. Puck is over 4000 years old being the eldest son of Oberon and Titania and older brother of Mustardseed. He is heir to the throne of Faerie and so is given the title 'Crown Prince'.
2.1: Puck accidentally sprinkles the love potion in Lysander's eyes instead of Demetrius's, which causes Lysander to fall out of love with Hermia and in love with Helena. Whoops. Now Demetrius and Lysander both want Helena, and Hermia is left unloved.
Puck is supposed to make Demetrius fall in love with Helena, but he puts the juice of the magic flower in Lysander's eyes instead, causing chaos. He is certainly prone to mistakes, but he still greatly enjoys the tricks that he plays on others.
Oberon is an unfaithful husband. It is clear throughout the text that he has had multiple affairs. Moreover, he is devious in his pursuit of sexual gratification. At one point, in order to make a conquest of a shepherdess, Phillida, he deceived her by disguising himself as a shepherd.
Later in the play, Oberon sends Puck out to fix his mistake. The forest is magically plunged into darkness and Puck imitates the voices of the lovers to lead them astray. This time he successfully smears the love potion on the eyes of Lysander, who thus falls back in love with Hermia.
This is dramatic irony because the audience knows Puck is a tricky, mischievous character so his ''lord'' should fear for a task being completed. Another example comes in Act III when Bottom's head is transformed into that of a donkey.
Oberon orders Puck to find Helena and bring her back to where Demetrius is now sleeping and says he will put potion in Demetrius' eyes.
Oberon and Titania are the fairy king and queen in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. In their first scene together, it is clear that they are fighting: Oberon accuses Titania of having an affair with Theseus and Titania says that Oberon has had an affair with Hippolyta.
But their revelry is short-lived when they find out that Puck mistakenly used the love potion on Lysander. In a rare show of remorse for his mischief, Oberon tries to fix things. He sends Puck to find Helena while he uses the love potion on Demetrius.
Oberon decides to get his revenge on Titania. He sends his servant Puck to find a flower which has the power to make someone fall in love with the first living thing they see when they wake up. Demetrius chases Hermia into the woods, and is followed by Helena.
As a benevolent ruler of the spirit world, he also brings blessing of peace and health to the future families of the newlyweds. But his personality is not all kindness; Oberon shows a more malicious side in his dealings with Titania.
The name Oberon is both a boy's name and a girl's name of English origin meaning "noble, bearlike". The name of the king of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; could work just as well for your little sprite.
Oberon wants Titania's changeling child to serve him in his court instead of hers. He also wants to satisfy his own jealousy, as Titania and Oberon have accused each other of romantic dalliances with mortals: Titania with Theseus and Oberon with Hippolyta.
At the opening of Act 2, we discover that Oberon is jealous of Titania for a seemingly odd reason: she's stolen the male child of an Indian king and is keeping him as her attendant. Oberon, however, wants the child to spend more time with him.
puck, in medieval English folklore, a malicious fairy or demon. In Old and Middle English the word meant simply “demon.” In Elizabethan lore he was a mischievous, brownielike fairy also called Robin Goodfellow, or Hobgoblin.