Who Is Puck In A Midsummer Night's Dream

What if you were tricked into no longer loving your true love. In Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare a shakespearean comedy, Puck is a fairy who’s profession is serving Oberon the king of the fairies. Puck also is a known jokester who always is getting himself in trouble. He is also a very static character throughout the play. Puck is a three dimensional and complex character because of his difference in traits from mischievous to loyalty to compassion.
The first and main trait that characterizes Puck is mischievous. Puck has done mischievous acts ranging from turning Nick Bottom's head into that of an ass to something as simple as scaring the maidens in the village. We know very early on into the play that Puck is a bit mischievous when his fellow fairy makes this statement "that shrewd and knavish sprite Call'd Robin Goodfellow"(Shakespeare-37). “Shrewd” means malicious while “knavish” meaning is mischievous. Another quote that expresses his mischievousness is “Follow my voice, we’ll try no manhood here”(Shakespeare-). In this quote Puck is trying to trick Demetrius and Lysander over to him by disguising his voice. He does this so he can fix what he messed up and get the love potion in the eyes of Lysander. The second
When Oberon tells Puck to enchant Demetrious with the love potion so he falls in love with Helena who Demetrius has been ignoring. Puck feels great pity for Helena because the way she is being treated. He expresses sympathy towards Helena when he says the following "Pretty soul! she durst not lie. Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy"(Shakespeare-59). Puck is basically saying he doesn't understand why someone would ignore someone as beautiful as her. We also see his compassion and sympathy for Helena when Puck calls Demetrious a villain(churl) for ignoring her in the following statement “Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth