Who Is The Protagonist In A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of his most popular plays involving fairies, mischief, and love. The play features a play-within-a-play that has an eccentric acting troupe playing the parts. Together, they hope to perform “‘The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe,’” (1.1.10-11). Of all the characters in the play and movie, Francis Flute, a member of the acting troupe, is the most rounded character because the audience can see him grow, he exhibits traits of comedy and drama, and he ultimately has an inconsistent personality that makes him seem real.

Titania gets deceived by Oberon because he ordered Puck to put a love potion into Titania’s eyes.He did it because he wanted her attention and wanted the child for himself. “I'll watch Titania when she is asleep, And drop the liquor of it in her eyes” (II,1,551-552). Titania was busy with the child and never payed attention to Oberon. “Give me that boy, and I will go with thee” (II,1,513). Oberon deceiving Titania wasn't the only deception, the second deception was the love potion. The love potion made Bottom to appear handsome, but in reality Bottom had a face of an ass (donkey). “I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing

by the Athenian garment, he had on?” The use of dramatic irony here is effective because it creates comic relief thus helping both characters amuse the whole audience. Puck is known for his notorious pranks and skits constantly making it harder for everyone else in the play. On that note, Bottom (unconsciously) makes the audience laugh as he too makes it harder for everyone else, with his arrogance and stubbornness. In addition, Puck and Bottom both have many things in common including their similar lines of comedy, constantly making life harder for others and both being arrogant at

Puck, one of the main characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, exclaims, “Lord, what fools these mortals be” (III.ii.117)! In this quote, he is speaking to Oberon, his master, about the silliness that he sees displayed by Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius due to the petty squabbles that continue to take place between them. However, while Puck laughs on in amusement about the stupidity of the mortals, he fails to acknowledge his role in that matter. Puck is the clear root of all problems in A Midsummer Night’s Dream because he causes the disagreements and confusion between the lovers and he fails to show remorse or regret following his wrong doings.

The production team also emphasizes Bottom’s singularity though several visual cues. When we first meet Bottom, he is wearing a white suit, unlike that of any of his fellow mechanicals and the color choice stands out against the brown-toned townscape. Furthermore, screen-time-wise, he gets a longer introduction than the other mechanicals, which audiences may or may not recognize from the townscape when they begin their dialogue later. At the end of the film, there is a short scene in-between lines of Puck’s epilogue that reveals Bottom staring into the night, thinking of his Titania tryst, when he sees the fairies. The fact that the scene occurs at the very end of the film, when Bottom has disappeared from the story according to the text, shows the film’s emphasis on his character as the center stone of the plot. Since the audience leaves the story with Bottom, the filmmakers lead us to believe that we were following his point of view all along.

Through looking at this Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a better understanding can be grasped by looking specifically at the surfacing of our true selves, what is deeply inside will always rise. Not only does Nick Bottom serve as comic relief in the play written by William Shakespeare, but also along the way

Oberon tells Titania that he wants the changeling boy as a servant (Shakespeare 2.1 120 ). Oberon causes this because he wants a henchman and who he wants as this henchman is the changeling boy. The reason Titania does not want to give this child up is because it belonged to a friend and she feels enditted. Oberon makes Titania fall in love with Bottom dressed like a donkey. (Shakespeare 4.1 1-10)

And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me // on the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.” (65) This quote makes use of imagery. The potion that was put into Titania was a love potion, which made her fall in love with the first person who she lays eyes on when she awakes, who in this case, is Bottom, who has taken the form of an ass. Titania adds: “Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.” (65) Which signifies that she either already has, or soon will fall in love with Bottom.

They are real people in the whole plot, but are merely actors and characters in Bottom’s mind. Right before Bottom is about to wake up Demetrius announces the ending of the crazy dream. He ends a conversation with the other lovers by saying, “Why, then, we are awake. Let’s follow him/ and by the way let us recount our dreams,” (4.1.208-209).

Now part of a forced love affair, Queen Titania has become magically obsessed with an actor named Bottom who ironically has a head of an ass. Not only has Titania been forced to love such a hairy creature, although now Bottom is being forced to love Queen Titania by the works of herself. “Out of this wood do not desire to go. / Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no”

Throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there are many characters who are involved in the main conflict. Even those who are not part of the main cast of the story still play pivotal roles to the events of the story. Some of the most pivotal characters that set most of the events in action are the royalty of the story. Theseus, the duke of Athens, and Oberon, the king of the fairies, not only cause most of the actions of the play, but they also set a duality that spans the entire story. Theseus is a symbol of order throughout the play that offset the madness of the world of the fairies.

Nick Bottom, or Bottom as he is commonly referred to, is a focal character of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare that plays a part in all three storylines. Several times throughout the play, Bottom’s arrogance is highlighted. Bottom believes that he is a very good actor and director, even better than the others performing and directing the play as can be seen when Bottom tells Quince to let him play more characters in the play and when he says that the play has “things that will never please […and has] a device to make all well” (III. i. 5-8). Shakespeare also portrays Bottom as being very foolish. He even makes it a point to have Puck turn Bottom into an “ass”. Bottom’s foolishness can be seen when he is overconfident about

Titania lovingly expresses to Bottom,“thou art wise as thou art beautiful “(III.i.140). Titiania indicates how in her mindset, Bottom is a very enticing and intriguing person .She sees both, the unappealing and alluring side of him yet, still chooses to love the good in him. Additionally Titania says, “Our of this wood do not desire to go : thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no. And I do love thee : therefore, go with me” ( III.ii.20).

In this moment, Bottom returns to reality. What he believes has occurred while sleeping at night has obfuscated him (his affair with Titania). He concludes that he has had a

The magic relationship between Titania and Bottom are also caused by the juice of the magic flower, and when she wakes up, she falls in love with Bottom, who has an ass for a head, “What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?”