Puck:
Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 3, scene 2, 110-115
The mischievous fairy Puck brings his king Oberon to view a spectacle-what he calls a "fond [foolish] pageant." Four Athenian lovers, lost in the fairies' forest, have lately been acting very strangely, and Puck is partly responsible. Where Oberon had hoped to reconcile, with the aid of a love potion, the bickering lovers, Puck applied the potion to the eyelids of the wrong man. Before, Helena had pursued Demetrius, who had pursued Hermia, who was in love with Lysander. Now, because of Puck's mistake, Lysander pursues Helena, and in the meanwhile Oberon has fixed it so that Demetrius pursues Helena too-the result he originally intended.
All this fairy meddling doesn't prevent Puck from blaming the lovers' behavior on their own foolishness. As far as he's concerned, their actions amount merely to a performance put on for the fairies' enjoyment, while the lovers themselves treat the whole affair with deadly seriousness. Shakespeare's judgment seems to be that love is a form of madness that prompts the lover to act in very foolish ways, indeed. As Duke Theseus says, lovers, like madmen and poets, are fantasists, "of imagination all compact [composed]" (Act 5, scene 1, 8). Though their fantasies are irrational, however, they are also acts of creation that produce "More than cool reason ever comprehends" (line 6). Theseus doesn't wholly approve of the frantic delusions of lovers and poets, but the poet Shakespeare is implicitly more tolerantand in the meanwhile Oberon has fixed it so that Demetrius pursues Helena too-the result he originally intended.
All this fairy meddling doesn't prevent Puck from blaming the lovers' behavior on their own foolishness. As far as he's concerned, their actions amount merely to a performance put on for the fairies' enjoyment, while the lovers themselves treat the whole affair with deadly seriousness. Shakespeare's judgment seems to be that love is a form of madness that prompts the lover to act in very foolish ways, indeed. As Duke Theseus says, lovers, like madmen and poets, are fantasists, "of imagination all compact [composed]" (Act 5, scene 1, 8). Though their fantasies are irrational, however, they are also acts of creation that produce "More than cool reason ever comprehends" (line 6). Theseus doesn't wholly approve of the frantic delusions of lovers and poets, but the poet Shakespeare is implicitly more tolerant
"The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" (Hamlet) "For never was there a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (Romeo and Juliet) "Shall we this fair pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!" (Midsummer Night's Dream)
One of Puck's most memorable lines is: Lord, what fools these mortals be. But puck also has the last lines of the play: If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.
beauty of this daughter
A number of the comedies do. Costard in Love's Labour's Lost, Feste in Twelfth Night, Touchstone in As You Like It, Lavatch in All's Well That Ends Well, are all professional fools, as is the Fool in King Lear. However, even when there is not a person who is a professional jester, there are characters who are funny or stupid or witty in most of the plays. The reason for that is that there were funny men who were a permanent part of The Lord Chamberlain's Men and The King's Men (Will Kempe and Robert Armin) who had to play something in any play they put on. In comedies, they had rather up-front roles, either the fools listed above or characters like Nick Bottom. In the tragedies, they ended up playing the gravedigger in Hamlet and the Porter in Macbeth.
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"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" -- Puck, Act 3, Scene ii.
Some famous quotes from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare include "The course of true love never did run smooth," "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind," and "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
The line "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" is spoken by Puck in William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Puck says this in Act 3, Scene 2.
Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
It is from Act three, scene two of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and sums up the general attitude of the play.
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