Puck 🔒 Members

🔒 Members only: join for £4.99 a month

Age and build

The book is silent here, so we keep this plain and neutral.

Face and hair

The book is silent here, so we keep this plain and neutral.

Dress

The book is silent here, so we keep this plain and neutral.

Voice and speech

Speaks in rhyming couplets and verse with playful rhythm

“I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon, and make him smile” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 3)

Uses colloquial and archaic exclamations

“Ay, there it is” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 3)

Signature words

Robin Goodfellow

“Call’d Robin Goodfellow” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 3)

Puck

“Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 3)

Lord, what fools these mortals be

“Lord, what fools these mortals be” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 6)

Goblin

“Goblin, lead them up and down” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 6)

Gait and mannerisms

Moves with supernatural speed

“I’ll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 3)

Transforms into various animal shapes to trick mortals

“Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound, A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 5)

Hides and observes from concealment

“Enter Puck behind” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 5)

Strengths

Performs magical transformations and enchantments

“An ass’s nole I fixed on his head” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 6)

Moves with extraordinary speed across distances

“I go, I go; look how I go, Swifter than arrow from the Tartar’s bow” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 6)

Skilled at leading mortals astray and causing confusion

“I led them on in this distracted fear” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 6)

Flaws

Makes mistakes in carrying out orders

“Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook. Did not you tell me I should know the man By the Athenian garments he had on” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 6)

Takes pleasure in others' misfortune and confusion

“And those things do best please me That befall prepost’rously” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 6)

Traits

Merry and playful in nature

“I am that merry wanderer of the night” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 3)

Loyal servant to Oberon

“Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 3)

Observant and quick to act

“What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here, So near the cradle of the Fairy Queen” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 5)

Lines in their own words

Boasts of his pranks

“I jest to Oberon, and make him smile, When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 3)

Promises swift obedience

“I’ll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 3)

Mocks the mortals

“Lord, what fools these mortals be” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 6)

Taunts the young men

“Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars, Telling the bushes that thou look’st for wars” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 6)

Addresses the audience

“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended” (A Midsummer Nights Dream, part 9)