Love is a timeless topic. It will forever be the theme of popular entertainment and source of confusion for men and women alike. No one understands this better than William Shakespeare, and he frequently explores this complex emotion in his writing of great works. In A Midsummer Night's Dream he cleverly reveals the fickle and inebriating aspects of love through his mischievous character Puck. Though Puck adds much humor to the play while tormenting and drugging the lovers in the forest, he also acts as a catalyst in redirecting their devotions among one-another, thus demonstrating the fickle nature of love....
no different in effect. Although Puck has had no part in their intoxicated judgment, they still are artificially confident.

Throughout the forest scenes in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare uses Puck as a device to provoke extremes in human emotion, proving that, indeed, "?óÔé¼?ªwhat fools these mortals be" III.ii.117. The reader is continually reminded that love is powerful, sometimes fickle, and on occasion intoxicating to the point of stupidity. Four hundred years after this play was first written it is still a common theme in movies and best selling novels, making Shakespeare timeless in his exploration of human behavior.