A Midsummer Night's Dream Compare And Contrast Essay

The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare was a wild ride from start from to finish. Everything that happened in this play was very entertaining; from the conflicted love triangle, the performance of a play within a play, to the unique characters within the story. The most intriguing relationship was between the characters, Puck and Bottom, as there were similarities and contrast between the two of them. For one, They are both comical characters, as well as the comic relief within the story. Both have an identical role, but how are they different and similar? How are they like the character groups they represent? To delve into: the first point on how they’re similar. As said before, they are both similar in a way as both being the comic relief of the story; they were designed to be humorous characters. They both behave very much alike, and have similar roles for different characters within the story. There are common traits within the two characters, such as their lighthearted nature and the way they behave throughout the story. …show more content…
Bottom states, “God’s my life! Stolen hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,” Act IV, Scene I, while Puck says, “While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream,” Act V, Scene I. The purpose of these two statements is to correlate and to kind of “validate” with the title of the play: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” They both use these statements to recollect the events through the explanation of sleep, dreams, and visions, while trying to explain to the audience that these surreal events are a mysterious reckoning force and that they’re unexplainable. These speeches help educate the audience to say that people don’t know everything, even if they think they