In Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night's Dream, he portrays the ideas of comedy [(incongruity, the balance of opposites, exaggeration) SP 7] to argue that all tragedies are actually comedies.
The first element of comedy that Shakespeare uses to argue what tragic plays really are is an incongruity. On line 85 of Act 1 scene 2, Bottom states, "We may rehearse most obscenely and courageously " The mix-up of obscenely and obscurely provides amusement and sets up for other examples of bottom inability to decipher what he wants to say later on in the play. His use of words also triggers emotion, in which he turns the pitiful play, Pyramus, and Thisbe, into something that resembles a tragedy. Using incongruity in Bottom's words, Shakespeare is able
The first element of comedy that Shakespeare uses to argue what tragic plays really are is an incongruity. On line 85 of Act 1 scene 2, Bottom states, "We may rehearse most obscenely and courageously " The mix-up of obscenely and obscurely provides amusement and sets up for other examples of bottom inability to decipher what he wants to say later on in the play. His use of words also triggers emotion, in which he turns the pitiful play, Pyramus, and Thisbe, into something that resembles a tragedy. Using incongruity in Bottom's words, Shakespeare is able