William Shakespeare seems to have created A Midsummer Night's Dream from his own childhood. In Shakespeare's time it was believed that fairies and little people did exist. Fairies were said to be the reason why the unexplained happened. An unexplained bottle of milk toppling over, or a bucket in the stables was said to be the work of fairies, who avoided human interaction. Puck is the audience's key to the motives of the fairies. The movie version of a play gives the audience an advantage in the sense that mistakes are rarely seen, the use of visual effects, and the story is able to present multiple scenes. This production does well with the directing and stage presentation elements of a movie, about a play, that suggests that it is all a dream.
In this movie production of the play, Puck, compared to Oberon, King of the Fairies and Titania, Queen of the Fairies and
Puck's little job with a love potion and a young couple is perfect for him and he perfect for the job. Puck is a likable character who tends to create mischief around himself. The staging and direction are brilliant in the scene with Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius. When Puck mistook Lysander for Demetrius (The director conveniently had the characters look alike) and dropped the love potion into Lysander's eyes and then realized what he had done he knew he had to fix it. The movie conveniently portrayed Puck as a light-hearted, amusing jester to relieve the stiffness of the royal fairies. He also adds some probability to the play, which is needed in presenting this play to today's audience. The typical audience today, does not believe in fairies and little people, but Puck and his antics are convincing. It is possibly, even today, more plausible to have a little fairy running around causin
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