Bottom in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Bottom in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

'A Midsummer Nights Dream' is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.

It was written in 1595 so was one of his earlier plays.

Nick Bottom is one of the main characters in the play and is easily

the funniest and most well loved. By well loved, I mean that he is

well liked my other characters in the play and especially by the

audience. He figures in many of the scenes in the play and crosses

into the different 'worlds' within the play. He wanders into the world

of the fairies during the play and also into the Royal World! Both of

these worlds give Bottom a chance to show a bit more of his comical

character.

The play itself was aimed at an audience of Kings and Queens. It was

written just after the plague had swept through the country killing

thousands of people so this may have influenced Shakespeare into

writing a play with a touch of humour in it. Shakespeare is

undoubtedly the best play write that has ever lived and 'A Midsummer

Night's Dream' has always been one of his most popular plays.

There are many main characters in the play that all have an important

role within the play. Bottom may not be the main character, however he

is the character that the audience will remember the most about once

the play has finished. Bottom gets his slightly comical name from

being a working class weaver. During the play, Bottom constantly says

and does stupid things and is always making mistakes when they are

rehearsing for the play.

Throughout the play Bottom seems to be well liked by all the other

characters. During the play, you can see many different sides to

Bottoms...

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...s incorrectly, the audience of the play seem to

find this very funny!

This is the last part of the play in which Bottom figures and makes

comical mistakes! During the play, he is easily the funniest character

making many stupid mistakes and crossing into the 'worlds' of the

fairies and the Royals. He is very well loved by both the audience of

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and the other characters in the play such

as the mechanicals and the fairies.

Bottom is by far the funniest character both in 'A Midsummer Night's

Dream' and the mechanicals play 'Pyramus and Thisbe.' Throughout the

play Bottom shows so many sides to his character. All of which seem to

make the audience laugh or sympathise with him. These different sides

to his character combine to make him a greatly well loved character by

absolutely everybody!

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