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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is concerned with the characterization
and the writer concentrates on Puck, the main character
in Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill. The role of his
existence in the fiction is the main thing she presents
in this study. Through the analysis, the writer shows
that Puck is a kind of spirit who is able to make
himself visible and invisible. Furthermore, he has a
special ability to enable people of two different
generations to meet. The "old Englishmen" or the " old
people" are from the 17 th Century while the two
children named Dan and Una live in the present
generation.
Puck, who has been living in both generations, has
a duty to keep the history of England going on. So, he
makes the knights who had lived in the past come back
to their land in the present time to tell the children
of this generation about their adventures. Through
Puck's magic power, Dan and Una are able to carry on
conversations with the old Englishmen thereby learning
what happened in England three centuries ago.
As the writer ends her analysis, she finds out that
the existence of Puck in the fiction is significant.
She comes to this conclusion because she sees that by
Puck's magic power, the two generations can be unified
and the atmosphere of the adventures in the past can
also be felt by the young generation which makes the
history of their country becomes alive again in the
present time. So, the role of Puck's existence is very
important in the novel since it leads the reader to get
the idea of the continuity of English history which is
also the theme of Puck of Pook's Hill.