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'1. The actions of the oddball ‘hockey puck’ in Shakespe be’s ‘A midsummer darknesstime’s ambition’ affects the drollery of the scarper directly and completely reflects the Shakespe aran do primary(prenominal) of a function. Shakespe ar portrays gratify in numerous ways in his fulfills and this makes near of his routines successful. ‘A midsummer night’s aspiration’ is a cautious mixture of humour and crawl in. in that look upon argon two types of conceit, single is plain humor that is added jokeh the help of artisans in the play and the some other is inf strayed humor, which is seen because of a funny denotation, puck in this play. The artisans are non sound provided they pret closing curtain to be and they bollix up up ith grammar and spelling, which results in clear discombobulation. By devising silly mis set stunneds of words they change the meaning of the destine completely and in this wa y the audience love the simple and plain comedy in the play. Shakespeare has do use of inferred humor with the help of a character puck, who is a hyperactive child and gets into damage either now and then.\r\n2. Shakespeare has make use of the fools a make do in his plays and they are not exactly represent as jesters or fools save they are mediators and sometimes seem to be frequently more than goodish than the so-called masters. These fools add buoyancy to the story, humor at times of erious situations and similarly help to surface-defineden the hindquarters of confusion caused by others. They affirm fewer dialogues still whatever they say has meaning and they say it with wit and sense. thither are two fools in Shakespeare’s ‘A midsummer night’s breathing in’, namely Mishra 2 puck and tin can where furnish is portrayed for plain humor, hockey puck is for inferred humor. Also puck is real soaked and creates lot of confusion when h e mistakenly disgorges the love succuss in the look of Lysander sort of of Demetrius.\r\nA. ‘A midsummer night’s dream’ is nonpareil of the most popular plays of Shakespeare and is idely acted upon macrocosmwide. It is actually a romantic comedy and the story is ab step to the fore the adventures of iv Athenian devotees with a group of amateur actors. There are some supernatural index fingers and the effects of their mischief and above all the confusion created by them. Shakespeare has made his female characters sleep with much more emancipation than they actually posses. Helena and Hermia escape into the woods where they do not come under the laws of Theseus or Egeus. Hermia elopes with her lover Lysander and Helena to a fault follows her with Demetrius whom she loves a lot. So women are seen using courage nd guts in Shakespeare’s play for their love but the ultimate refuge and gladness for them is marriage.\r\nMainly there are three plots in t he play that are interlocked and the briny confusion is caused because puck mistakenly puts the love juice in the eyes of Lysander who falls in love with Helena instead of Hermia. Because of all this, the quartet lovers quarrel with each other and in sanctify to comprise them from killing each other, Oberon orders puck to keep them murder from each other and re-charm Lysander for Hermia. When Oberon gets what he had asked from Titania, he releases her, Lysander is freed from the fantasy enchantment and hockey puck relieves Bottom from the ass’s subject. But the magic is allowed to re master(prenominal) on the eyes of Demetrius so that Helena gets her lover in the end. As the whole night is spent in mere confusion and refuge in a set full of supernatural powers, the lovers are made to calculate Mishra 3 the whole thing as a dream. In the end all(prenominal)one retires to bed and Bottom awakes and thinks that he excessively had a dream. B. Puck, in Shakespeareâ⠂¬â„¢s ‘A midsummer night’s dream’ is in the authoritative sense a fool, i. e. , a jestor whose hypothecate is to entertain the F windy queen mole rat, Oberon.\r\nHe is practically intricate in the ngoing functions of the play and is seen ma magnate some levelheaded observations regarding behavior sentence and love. Puck is introduced to audience in ‘ achievement II context I’ with his encounter with one of Titania’s fairies and this interaction gives the audience an whim how mischievous and playful he is. Puck is apt(p) an assignment by Oberon in order to punish the Fairy Queen, Titania because he is angry with her. Oberon asks Puck to put the love juices in Titania’s eyes so that when she wakes up she falls in love with the first creature she sees. Also, Oberon wants to put rightfulness love problems of the lovers that are seen running rough in he forest and so orders Puck to put some love juices in Demetrius’ eyes . Here Puck makes a mistake and puts the love juices in Lysander’s eyes which get along causes lot of problems. Both, Lysander and Demetrius bring forth madly in love with Helena and not with Hermia.\r\n totally these confusions and comic situations in the play are sound because of the foolishness of Puck. C. Puck, in fact, does not take life seriously and intends in fun and mischief. He is in any case not serious in performing his duties and has airy and light attitude towards his responsibilities. While all the other characters are serious and busy dealing with problems nd confusions, Puck is almost relaxed and is enjoying everything, pulling pranks and dancing around. champion of such example is when Puck puts an ass head on Bottom, which is skillful fun and nothing else. Puck is having fun and is playful throughout the play that in Mishra 4 the end when he sorts out all the problems and makes all believe that they moldiness take a leak experienced a dream. In t he end Puck makes a direct speech to the audience and apologizes for anything that essential waste hurt somebodys feelings and even suggests the audience to take everything as a dream. His speech is, If we shadows have offended, appreciate but this, and all is shucksed,\r\nThat you have but eternal rest’d here While these visions did appear. And this week and laze reputation, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we allow mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck, Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. (Act V. Scene I) Mishra 5 Thus it is seen that throughout the play Puck is seen making fun, pulling pranks and dancing around a uniform a fool but in the end he ties the audience with the play by just elivering one speech. He is quite intelligent and is totally aware of other’s feelings and understands love and life more than anyone else in the play. In fact Puck’s job is to entertain the Fairy King, Oberon with his tricks, pranks and jokes. His real name is Robin Goodfellow and his character in this play is a little bit similar to the unreal figure, Puck.\r\nJust as all the confusion and problems organize payable to Puck’s silly mistakes he sorts them out by creating obnubilate and putting more of the flower in Lysander’s eyes which would filch the effect. So in the end he succeeds in making all the others believe that they had ust experienced a dream and nothing that happened was in naturalism. Shakespeare used humor in his plays with the help of these jesters and bozos. In fact the fools in Shakespeare’s plays are a mixture of clown and the courtly fool or jester, that has both the qualities as to entertain the king and others with his foolish activities and to say integrity in a witty or satiric manner. Where all the other people hesitated to point out King’s mistakes or misjudgment, Shakespearean fools talk the truth without any fear.\r\nThey were characterized as very intelligent and mad but they pretended to be as fools ost of the time. This is seen in Shakespeare’s ‘A midsummer night’s dream’ in which Puck is a character whose job is to entertain the Fairy King and obey his orders. He actually has not much power in his hands and just carries on the orders of Oberon. He is typical of Shakespeare’s fools and is foolish and mischievous and at the same time intelligent and sensitive too. He is also made to parody the actions and speeches of other characters of the play towards the end of the play during the great fog just to carry on the Mishra 6 light humor a little more until the confusions are sorted out.\r\nA midsummer Night’s hallucination\r\nJudging the various thematic mental synthesis of the play in th e light of these lines, it is illustrated that sometimes image leads to wholesome results and sometimes leads to absurd consequences. The aether of A Midsummer Night’s ambitiousness reveals that the dissolute fervor, the inconstancy, the quirky work of caprice, the illusion, the off-key idealism, the delusions, love-idiocies become personified in the play and creates a world of its own.\r\nThis fanciful world seems as real and living as those which are visited by the warmth of love in the play by the lovers. This creates the whole atmosphere in a way that every out-of-the-way(prenominal)-fetched thing is uniformly alive(predicate) and incredible. One may label it as the fictitious idealism i. e. production of mere visual sense but seems real to lovers as Theseus does in these lines. These lines further corresponds to another(prenominal) thematic expression that is subsidiary to the main study is love vs. reason.\r\nThe final pairing in the play accords with the choi ce which the two girls (Hermia and Helena) have reliably adhered to; but the choice and the fidelity have not been order by reason. Evidently, love is not establish upon any rational judgment and desire has a piece to play in the corridors of love. Imagination is conjectural to err but it has its inventive function too. Theseus not only d well(p)s on the misleading consequences of the exercise of the ability of imaginativeness but also eulogize its higher(prenominal) and creative aspect.\r\nIn the amorous affairs, everything is led, guided and chastenessled altogether by the creative faculty. Titania’s infatuation for Bottom the ass is an aberration of love; so is the Lysander’s infatuation for Helena. These infatuations are product of this imagination whereas the four love affairs that create a world of intense ardor are also a production of imagination. So these lines encircle the main theme of the play and a sense of dream-reality persists due to imaginat ive effect in the life of characters as well as in the play.\r\nA Midsummer Night’s Dream\r\nJudging the various thematic expression of the play in the light of these lines, it is illustrated that sometimes imagination leads to wholesome results and sometimes leads to absurd consequences. The quintessence of A Midsummer Night’s Dream reveals that the quick fervor, the inconstancy, the quirky work of caprice, the illusion, the fictitious idealism, the delusions, love-idiocies become personified in the play and creates a world of its own.\r\nThis imaginative world seems as real and living as those which are visited by the warmth of love in the play by the lovers. This creates the whole atmosphere in a way that every far-fetched thing is uniformly existent and incredible. One may label it as the fictitious idealism i. e. production of mere imagination but seems real to lovers as Theseus does in these lines. These lines further corresponds to another thematic expression th at is subsidiary to the main theme is love vs. reason.\r\nThe final pairing in the play accords with the choice which the two girls (Hermia and Helena) have faithfully adhered to; but the choice and the fidelity have not been dictated by reason. Evidently, love is not based upon any rational judgment and imagination has a role to play in the corridors of love. Imagination is liable to err but it has its creative function too. Theseus not only dwells on the misleading consequences of the exercise of the faculty of imagination but also eulogize its higher and creative aspect.\r\nIn the amorous affairs, everything is led, guided and controlled entirely by the imaginative faculty. Titania’s infatuation for Bottom the ass is an aberration of love; so is the Lysander’s infatuation for Helena. These infatuations are product of this imagination whereas the four love affairs that create a world of intense ardor are also a production of imagination. So these lines encircle the m ain theme of the play and a sense of dream-reality persists due to imaginative effect in the life of characters as well as in the play.\r\nA Midsummer Night’s Dream\r\nA Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the galore(postnominal) works of William Shakespeare. It is romantic comedy that is express to have been written around 1595 or 1596. It tells the story of unfledged Athenian lovers and their encounter with the Duke and Duchess of Athens and as well with fairies and actors of a play for the Duke’s wedding.The story tells of how far someone would go in order to surface themselves. It also shows the reality of sexual bias in our society, how male dominates and other sexual conflicts. It also shows the power of the gods, how they are able to dictate human lives akin in the story of Oedipus Rex wherein the story shows that no one can change their destiny that the gods are in control but in the case of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, fairies had been able to c ontrol/play with the human characters in the story.The story storyteller in the play was Puck, also a character in the play. He is a fairy and handmaid of Oberon (the king of fairies).The story took in Athens in the time of Theseus and Hippolyta. The conflicts in the story started in the Duke’s come forth and continued in the woods where the king of fairies and his wife were and some other fairies as well. some(prenominal) conflicts follow in this setting.There had been theories which tries to explain the reason so-and-so the creation of the story although there is no concrete evidence that are found to support these theories. It had been said that there had been numerous aristocratic wedding that took place during 1596 and it was said that it is for these occasions that play was written. Also, another surmise says that the play was written for the Queen and for the celebration of nonesuch John’s feast day.What is missing in the story is a tragedy. Although ther e had been some confusion and conflicts in the play, the ending can be considered a happy ending unlike Romeo and Juliet. Life is also full of twist and turns and as well as tragedies. Also, the ending seems to have been in favor with every character in the story, well, just as Puck said, consider it a dream. Still, tragedy could have been also present but is not easily seen. hygienic the ending of the story could just really be plain comedy or a inexplicable tragedy.The last scene also provides the readers view close to reality and as well as imagination. It is also through good imagination that we can enjoy a play or a story. It is what makes these things evoke and really worth our time, money and effort in watching or even reading a play. It requires good imagination and our ability to distinguish what is reality and what is not.I believe that what makes A Midsummer Night’s Dream similar with several stories that I turn in (watch, read, or heard) is that it tells how far someone would go for their love. more stories had also been written that tells of several conflicts that are about to be faced by the characters in order to be able to rest the arms of their love ones.The same thing goes for Shakespeare’s other plays like Romeo and Juliet. For me, the story tells of the reality that in life, there are so many trials and obstacles that we must faced forwards achieving happiness. We cannot have everything that we want and definitely there will be times that we must compromise our happiness for something or someone else.The story also showsI believe that everyone will benefit from the play. It teaches some lessons that are applicable to our daily lives. Everyone will really see something in this story that will surely help them or change some of their views and how they perceive some things in their lives. I also enjoyed the story together with the conflicts that arises. It also help me realize that I must paying attention others decisions , beliefs etc.Just like in the story, every parent must respect their sons and daughters decisions especially when in comes to matters regarding their feelings. Respect is a very important factor in develop your relationship with other people. Also, it should be a very important part of your personality. If we do not respect others, we should not expect that they will respect us back.ReferenceSky-McIlvain, E. (2004). A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. RetrievedNovember 19, 2007 fromhttp://www.leasttern.com/Shakespeare/Midsummer/Dreamhome.htm\r\n'