Did you know that almost every movie based on a book is always exaggerated in some way? The story/play A Mid Summer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, is about a king who is about to get married and he wants a play for his wedding ceremony. A group of craftsmen decide to prepare a skit for the ceremony altogether. During their practice, One of the characters gets transformed into a donkey man and scares his entire group. Then a fairy queen was placed under a trick which made her love the Donkey man. Bottom is the character that becomes the donkey man and plays an important role in the story. Although both the text and the movie portray Bottom as a comic relief; the audience shows more sympathy to Bottom from the movie than from the text.
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For instance, the first encounter the audience has with Bottom when he meets up with his group to assign roles for a play. Bottom tries to convince Quince to give him all of the roles in the play. This is evident when he states, "And I may hide my face, let me play Thisbe too..." (I.ii.44-47). Bottom's desire to play every character for a play shows him as a comical character because it is almost impossible for one person to play every character in a play and his desire for it proves to be funny. Another example of Bottom as a comical character is when Bottom is transformed into a donkey in the movie. Similarly to the text, Bottom plays a comical character in the movie. He amuses the audience when his head is turned into a donkey's head which occurs in act 3, scene 1. Bottom's appearance and his voice is very similar to a donkey because of his fur and his laughter is the sound of a donkey's bray. Bottom's acceptance of the life of Queen Titania's donkey is amusing to the audience because he is enjoying the life of a creature which is looked down upon by many people. Bottom's character as a comedic relief is expressed through both the text and the movie of A Mid Summer Nights Dream in very unique
For instance, the first encounter the audience has with Bottom when he meets up with his group to assign roles for a play. Bottom tries to convince Quince to give him all of the roles in the play. This is evident when he states, "And I may hide my face, let me play Thisbe too..." (I.ii.44-47). Bottom's desire to play every character for a play shows him as a comical character because it is almost impossible for one person to play every character in a play and his desire for it proves to be funny. Another example of Bottom as a comical character is when Bottom is transformed into a donkey in the movie. Similarly to the text, Bottom plays a comical character in the movie. He amuses the audience when his head is turned into a donkey's head which occurs in act 3, scene 1. Bottom's appearance and his voice is very similar to a donkey because of his fur and his laughter is the sound of a donkey's bray. Bottom's acceptance of the life of Queen Titania's donkey is amusing to the audience because he is enjoying the life of a creature which is looked down upon by many people. Bottom's character as a comedic relief is expressed through both the text and the movie of A Mid Summer Nights Dream in very unique