Thursday, April 14, 2016
Protagoist in A Midsummer Night's Dream
I find the protagonist in this play to be Puck. Puck is basically the servant to Oberon who is the king of the fairies. Puck is the person in charge of retrieving the magical flower in order to get the juice that is to be spread on the eyes of Titania so that she falls in love with the first person she sees when she wakes. Puck is also ordered to spread some on Demetrius' eyelids after he was seen being rude toward Helena. Puck would mess up these orders however and place the juice from the plant on the eyelids of Lysander thinking that he was the man that Oberon was talking about. This leads Lysander to fall in love with Helena, who Demetrius is also in love with. So this introduces the conflict between Demetrius and Lysander. Anyway, Puck has to make things right and fix this which he eventually does by placing more juice on the eyelids on Lysander which then makes him fall in love with Hermia. I believe Puck to be the protagonist because after he's introduced in the play it becomes about him putting the juice from the flower on certain peoples eyelids and he messes that up so it becomes about him making things right again. For me, the play focused more on Puck trying to fulfill the orders of Oberon and then fixing his mistakes which lead me to believe that he is the protagonist.
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