Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream

In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Puck serves as Shakespeare’s voice in the play. He is no ordinary character, shown by the fact he is the only singleton in the play, taking him out of both the fairy and mortal world. Puck not only wields the characters to his liking, but also his audience. When Puck causes both Lysander and Demetrius to fall in love with Helena, he says, “Shall we their …showed first 75 words of 465 total…

…showed last 75 words of 465 total…audience too. This is revealed by the sleep motif that rises again here, for Puck works his mischief on his characters while they are asleep. When Puck says he “jests to Oberon and makes him smile,” in truth it is Oberon, the fairy world, the mortals, and even the audience who are jesting to him. To Shakespeare, the whole world is his stage, as shown through Puck, his voice in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.