Midsummer's Night Dream Character Analysis

In works of literature and television, most artists have a tendency to employ a minor character that not only serves in the plot’s general progression, but also to create one or more memorable situations in the story that regains the observer’s attention. In John Steinbeck’s famous novella Of Mice and Men, Curley’s wife is a minor character; she serves a purpose to the plot by creating a constant raucous amongst the ranch workers, but eventually leads to her spilling herself wide open about her utter misery within her nuptial arrangement to Curley, which is news to the reader. On Seth MacFarlene’s Family Guy, after a dramatic speech made by Brian to Chris and Peter, a character known as “greased-uped deaf guy” may run through the Griffin’s

Depending on one’s viewpoint, fantasy and reality can be uncovered in different ways in “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”. Bottom is first seen unifying reality and fantasy by being the one who holds the “Mechanical Play” together within the play as a whole. Bottom is selected for the lead role of the play because of his rather flattering attributes that best are fitting to the role of Pyramus, which according to

Wilderness and civilization are polar opposites; People normally associate “wilderness” with the words “nature” or “ wild animal,” and “civilization” is normally associated with the words “city” and “urban”. Bottom is able to make a connection between these two words through his experience as a Native of Athens but also through the Night spent in the forest. In the play, it is mentioned that Bottom lives in Athens, leaving it safe to assume that he is housed, educated, and a working member of society. The night he and a group of his friends traveled to the forest to rehearse the mechanical play, his head was unfortunately turned into the head of an ass. It is understood that Bottom’s transformation brought out his animalistic nature in him in Bottom’s lines, “Truly, a peck of provender. I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay. Sweet hay, hath no fellow.”(IV.i.31-33) His of desiring of oats and hay exemplifies Bottoms ability to display his animalistic nature of craving foods of animals. Bottom is able to portray his humanistic nature through his role of being a member of society, but also shows his animalistic side the night he spent in the forest, which makes him the connecting point between wilderness and