Bottom In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Bottom is looked at as a blowhard, a bully and a fool while the craftsmen find him admirable. They shouldn’t find him admirable because what people see in Bottom is actually true. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Bottom shows his arrogance by thinking that he is best suited for all the roles in the play. He is greedy because he takes all the gifts that Titania offers him. He is doubtful about his friendships because they all ran away As a result of arrogance, greed and doubtful disposition, it is evident that Bottom is not a sympathetic character. Bottom shows that he has a little bit of an ego. He thinks that he can play all the roles in the production. This was shown when Peter Quince assigned the roles to the craftsmen, he wanted to play everyone’s role instantly thinking of how he can play their roles, instead of …show more content…
The craftsmen ran away from Bottom because of fear. They ran away from him because when Bottom came back on the “stage” during practice, they saw how scary he looked and instantly ran away from him feeling no sympathy that they left him. Making Bottom just stay there and wonder why they left because he was unaware of why they ran. This shows that his friendship is doubtful is that if they really like Bottom, and if they really do feel sympathy for him they wouldn’t run away from, they would’ve stayed there and told him that he looked really ugly or scary. Bottom isn’t a good friend either because instead of running after them, he just stood there confused. A good friend would of ran after them and wondered why they left and what was wrong with them. He could have asked them what was wrong, but he didn’t he just stood there and continued practicing by himself. True friends would stay by each other’s side no matter what. Bottom didn’t stand their side and showed the lack of character he had, make the craftsmen run away not feeling sympathetic at