Puck in Midsummer Nigh Dream Shakespeare

[cacian]

After few reads I am just wondering if Puck could be compared to Lucifer in the bible before being ejected from heaven?

The audience is introduced to Puck in Act 2 Scene 1 when one of Titania's fairies encounters Puck and says:

Either I mistake your shape and making quite;
Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he
That frights the maidens of the villagery;
Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern
And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;
And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;
Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?
Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
Are not you he?

Are not you he? What does she mean by he? the devil?

To which Puck answers:
Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,

IS he saying he changes when he eat or drink something like Alice in Wonderland and the magic potion?

At the end of the play (Act 5 Scene 1) Puck delivers a speech in which he addresses the audience directly, apologizing for anything that might have offended them and suggesting that they pretend it was a dream:

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,

does ''serpent tongue'' here is refering to god?
and
''amends ere long''? means he remain here on earth to make up for the fact that he was dejected from heaven?

Thanks:)

[PeterL]

I think thast you are making too much of Puck. He is not comparable to Lucifer, but he exact nature was not spelled out in the play. It appears that he is one of the Fairies and a servant of Oberon. And they are shape changers.

Serpent tongue means that he is deceitful. The amends were for messing things up.

[cacian]

I think thast you are making too much of Puck. He is not comparable to Lucifer, but he exact nature was not spelled out in the play. It appears that he is one of the Fairies and a servant of Oberon. And they are shape changers.

Serpent tongue means that he is deceitful. The amends were for messing things up.
He did mention the word 'escape'from the serpent tongue.
Tongue means a speech or a lecture from the serpent.
here is quote for what serpent may mean here:


Serpent, derived from Latin serpens, a crawling animal or snake (Hebrew: נחש‎, nahash, (meaning whisperer and tanniyn) occurs in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. The symbol of a serpent or snake played important roles in religious and cultural life of ancient Egypt, Canaan, Mesopotamia, and Greece. The serpent was a symbol of evil power and chaos from the underworld as well as a symbol of fertility, life, and healing.[2] Nahash, Hebrew for "snake", is also associated with divination, including the verb-form meaning to practice divination or fortune-telling. In the Hebrew Bible, Nahash occurs in the Torah to identify the serpent in Ede
and them there is the line

Then the next line:

''If we have unearned luck.''

who is WE why if and of course what does he mean by 'unearned luck'?
Unearned luck I am thinking was when when lucifer got into trouble with god ie unlucky and got himself and dejected I am guessing.