Throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare explores the use of irony with the character Bottom, a mechanical with low intelligence, by giving him important lines that shows the difference between the older royalties and the young lovers.
Shakespeare uses Bottom to show the contrast of opinions on love between the older royalties like Theseus and Egeus and the young lovers. Under the love spell the elegant fairy queen, Titania, becomes madly in love with Bottom, here he explains why, “And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays;” (III.i119-121) Bottom describes how love can occur between anyone, and that love doesn’t need a reason. Older royals need a reason to love, and most of the time the reason
Shakespeare uses Bottom to show the contrast of opinions on love between the older royalties like Theseus and Egeus and the young lovers. Under the love spell the elegant fairy queen, Titania, becomes madly in love with Bottom, here he explains why, “And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays;” (III.i119-121) Bottom describes how love can occur between anyone, and that love doesn’t need a reason. Older royals need a reason to love, and most of the time the reason