Botom's Weave
The play A Midsummer Night's Dream presents a wonderful contrast between reality and fantasy. A Midsummer Night's Dream gives us insight into man's conflict with rational versus emotional characteristics of human behavior. The City of Athens represents the logical side, with its flourishing government and society. The woods represent the wilder, irrational side where nothing seems to follow a normal path. The character of Bottom the weaver directly reflects these two worlds. He brings the rational and irrational elements of the play together in many ways.Bottom is definitely one of the most memorable characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream. First introduced to us in the casting of "Pyramus and Thisbe" (I.ii). Ready to take one anything that comes his way, Bottom tries to play every part in the play which is easily displayed when Bottom says: "An I may hide my face, let me play Thisbe too. I'll speak in a monstrous little voice: 'Thisne Thisne!'-'Ah Pyramus, my lover dear, thy Thisbe dear and lady dear'" (I.ii). After demonstrating his spectacular ability to play Thisbe he moves on to the Lion as he bellows: "Let me play the lion too. I will roar that I will do any man's hear good to hear me. I will roar that I wi
Although a tyrant is what he wishes to play, Bottom has many more characteristics of a lover. However, Bottom does show that one can act a lover and a tyrant at the same time. When he transformed into the ass and shares Titania's bed, it shows his ability to adapt immediately to whatever life offers him. His energetic love of life, good nature, and innocence allows him to have this ability to adapt to the "other world," which varies greatly from his own. The way Bottom acts throughout the play give us the impression that Bottom is a weaver in more ways then one. Bottom helps weave the play together. He unites the two worlds of reality and make believe together all throughout the play. Perhaps not completely incapable of feeling, Bottom can understand love to a certain degree. The fantastically transformed Bottom becomes a big part of the fairy world in his incredible role as Titania's Lover. So we see that Bottom after all can, in some ways, be both a lover and a tyrant. Bottom realizes that this brief phase of love in his life will have to end and that some day, one must face reality again. When Bottom awakens from this "dream", he reacts to the experience with wander and awe, that s
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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