Examples Of Comedy In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Puck manipulates Titania and Bottom through magic. Titania loses all free will, while Bottom is changed into a donkey against his will. For example, “And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee (3.1, 140-41, Shakespeare). Titania loves Bottom, who has the head of a donkey, against her free will. Oberon placed a love potion on Titania’s eyes, which resulted in Titania loving Bottom. Furthermore, Bottom was changed into a donkey by Puck. The lines, “I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me; to fright me, if they could” (3.1, 119-20, Shakespeare), allow the reader to know Bottom has the head of a donkey. In Scene Two, Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius have conflict. In the lines, “Now she holds me not; Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right, of thine or mine, is most in Helena” (3.2, 336-37, Shakespeare), Lysander begins to argue with Demetrius about Helena. Lysander’s loss of free will results in conflict. In the lines, “I will not trust you, I, nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, my legs are longer though, to run away” (3.2, 341-44, Shakespeare), Helena is attempting to run away from the situation because Hermia was upset with the situation. Act Three summarizes the conflict. Shakespeare uses the loss of free will to spark conflict

Not only this but the humorous, light-hearted tone of the workers as they prepare for their play serves as a refreshing contrast to the more dramatic― yet still comic― circumstances between Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena, as well as the other plot involving Titania, Oberon and the other fairies. Everything about the workmen is rather humorous, from their superficial traits to their deeper, less apparent traits, including their habits of mispronouncing words in a way that makes their entire sentence comically misconstrued, such as when Nick Bottom, at the time playing Pyramus says “Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover’s grace. / And like Limander [actually Leander] am I trusty still.”(Shakespeare 5.1.189-190)”. Not only does this provide the audience with some form of comical relief but these characters raise questions about the topics and themes most present in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, an observation confirmed with every new piece of information that the reader discovers about the tradesmen. For example, Nick Bottom, like his

In the comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the plethora of comedic styles used by Shakespeare illustrate his intention to poke fun at love throughout the play. The play is notorious for its intricate and irrational plotline, mainly due to the constantly shifting love triangles. Once the powerful fairies become involved with the fate of the naive lovers – Demetrius, Helena, Lysander and Hermia – matters are further complicated. The complication inflicted by the fairies is credited to the powerful love potion that Oberon, King of the Fairies, hands over to Puck, a mischievous fairy, to use on his wife Titania, with intentions to embarrass and distract her. This spiteful attitude is due to Oberon and Titania’s argument over the custody of an

As the blurring of reality and illusion progresses, Oberon uses the unreliable Puck to spread the love potion, which completely upends all sense of reality for the wayward couples. Throughout this confusion, real emotions are being affected. As Dorothea Kehler suggests in A Midsummer

Titania falls madly in love with Bottom after she was anointed with a love potion and Bottom's head has been turned into that of an ass. He thinks nothing out of the ordinary about a fairy queen that has fallen in deeply in love with him. His inability to perceive the fact that his head had been transformed and a fairy queen has fallen in love with him parallels how absurd he is.

     In the movie version of A Midsummer Nights Dream, Puck has a more overt sense of humor. Although the dialogue is purely Shakespeare, the actions and direction of Puck’s character bring a new perspective to the story. When we are first introduced to Puck in the tree, he plays some jokes, such as vanishing, and turning up in a goblet of wine. He is speaking the same lines as in the play, but the addition of visual humor adds to the appeal of the original play. One is again exposed to this when Oberon and Puck discuss the flower while lying in the forest. Puck imitates Oberon’s position, adjusting himself in a friendly mocking manner towards his master. One also gets the impression from Puck’s body language that, although he

Misunderstood Intentions? Puck a scheming, troublesome and mischievous servant fairy of Oberon who is not that good at listening. All throughout William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Puck seems to be at fault for most of the characters' problems. However Oberon is the person who requested for Puck to carry out most of these tasks, Puck is the character that blatantly mistakes Lysander for Demetrius, puts the Ass's head on Nick Bottom, and forced Lysander to hate Hermia for a while.

On the other hand, Oberon’s kindness is depicted when he sympathizes the abused Helena. After witnessing Helena profess her love to Demetrius and once again be rejected, Oberon orders Puck to find an Athenian boy- Demetrius, and sprinkle the love potion on his eyes. Puck, however, mistakenly takes Lysander’s sleeping figure near a woman’s body- Hermia, and accidentally sprinkles the love potion on his eyes instead of Demetrius’. Subsequently, Lysander wakes up, lays his eyes upon Helena, falling in love with her and out of love with Hermia. Oberon pity’s the abandoned Hermia, for Lysander no longer loves her, and also pity’s Helena, who believes that both Lysander and Demetrius are mocking her with their new found love. Ultimately, Oberon’s role as the King of the Fairies influences the plot of the play, as he is the cause of the chaos and conflicts brought upon by the love potion. In conclusion, Oberon possesses a merciless trait, portrayed through his act of discrediting and deceiving Titania but is also sympathetic, which is demonstrated through his act of providing a blessed future for all the

In literature, a great deal of humor can come from unwise characters, or fools. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a fictional play by William Shakespeare, two themes are present, love and humor. These themes both create and dismantle relationships throughout the story. As three different groups of characters, the nobles, fairies, and actors interact, romance and comedy are displayed. A fool is a person who makes poor decisions, and lets other people take advantage of them easily.

Based off of what a protagonist is Puck does things that a protagonist would such as trying to fix things but doing it wrong, and casting spells trying to be funny and take words literally, he also makes a mistake by making Titania fall in love with bottom because he took Oberon words seriously when he said he “doesn’t care if she was in love with a ass”.This tells another situation that Puck tries to fix but at the same time takes the king's word literally of him saying I don't care if she fall in love with an “ass”, and going on to make her fall for a donkey headed Bottom.

Tait Simpson Miss Smith Literature 7 7 May 2018 The Foolish Escapades in A Midsummer Night's Dream If these people had read Romeo and Juliet they would have known that running away to get married is a terrible idea and usually ends in two people stabbing themselves in a crypt. In the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream,  the main plot is that four people go into the woods and get magical love juice sprinkled in their eyes so that no one loves who they are supposed to love. While this is going on, the king and queen of the fairies are fighting over a small Indian child. There are actors, with no imagination, trying to put on a play within the play.

The audience is intrigued by the humorous dispute and will concentrate more on the play. During act 4, Oberon gives Titania the juice from the magical flower for her to fall in love with Bottom who is given the head of a donkey, or ass. This is so Oberon can make Titania look foolish being in love with an outrageous creature. Later on, Oberon is over the joke and reverses the love potion and Bottom’s donkey head. Titania wakes up shocked and believes it was all a dream. She sees Bottom a few feet away from her, still asleep, and says “How came these things to pass? / Oh, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!”(4.1.78-80). Titania’s statement translates to “How did this happen? Oh, I hate looking at his face now!” Titania insults Bottom in

Puck creates chaos, he’s a big mischief maker who he admits so. In this play Puck states “I jest to Oberon and make him smile”(2.1.45). Puck states that his master being Oberon commands him his orders, and he follows as said. Also stating “what kinds of demands” as in very mischievous. Then he say’s “And “tailor” cries, and falls into a cough.

(II, I). He did this so she could be so in love that she wouldn’t notice Oberon tricking her into giving him the Indian boy. Titania wakes up after Oberon put the spell on her and ended up falling in love with Bottom, who looks like a donkey. “ I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:/ Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note;/ So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;/

Thanks to Puck, the reader can appreciate the complex story arc involving Lysander, Demetrius, Helena and Hermia. Were it not because of Puck mistakenly squeezing the “love-in-idleness” flower on Lysander’s eyelids instead of Demetrius’, the story would have been completely different. Puck also provides the audience a chance to enjoy the comedic transformation of Bottom’s head into that of an ass, as well as his brief affair with Titania, Queen of the fairies. However, Puck’s strongest relationship is with Oberon, King of the fairies. In fact, Oberon is the only character who addresses Puck as “My gentle Puck,” which seems to reveal that before Oberon’s eyes, Puck is not just a mere mischievous spirit, but also a genuinely and positively gentle being. This particular relationship is the one that sets the whole story in motion. Daniel Derrin further defines Puck and Oberon’s relationship as complementary, by pointing out that “Other fairies in the play recognize Puck as one who can laugh at the harm of misled “night wanderers,” but that representation is balanced by his subordinate relationship to an Oberon who can step in and fix things before they create permanent harm” (Derrin