Do people recall their dreams after waking up? Are they able to distinguish the difference between dream and reality? In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nick Bottom expresses his comprehension of dream and imagination. His awakening speech with garbled recitation of 1 Corinthians 2:9 demonstrates that the imagination he experiences is beyond a human being’s reason. It is suggested in the play that he cannot either clearly recall the dream or understand it, and he recites St. Paul’s lines in order to describle his feelings.
Once he return to reality, Nick Bottom cannot real off the imaginative adventure he has had, and he goes, “I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.” (4. 1. …show more content…
Says Bottom, “The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tougue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.” (4. 1. 216-219) He recites the writing of St. Paul becase he is not able to comprehend the significance delivered by Titania as a goddess in the play. The love Bottom receives from her goes beyond reason of human being. According to the gospel, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:9-12) It reveals that the love of God given to us transcends the reason of the world and reaches the spiritual realm. Combining with the former plots, shakespeare intends to suggest that even though someone is as an ass as Nick Bottom, he receives God’s love indiscriminately. In the daylight, Nick Bottom converts back into a rational man so that he cannot express the vision he has at night. His awakening from the imaginative world takes him back to the reality in which he is transformed into an spirutual creature.
Once he return to reality, Nick Bottom cannot real off the imaginative adventure he has had, and he goes, “I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.” (4. 1. …show more content…
Says Bottom, “The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tougue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.” (4. 1. 216-219) He recites the writing of St. Paul becase he is not able to comprehend the significance delivered by Titania as a goddess in the play. The love Bottom receives from her goes beyond reason of human being. According to the gospel, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:9-12) It reveals that the love of God given to us transcends the reason of the world and reaches the spiritual realm. Combining with the former plots, shakespeare intends to suggest that even though someone is as an ass as Nick Bottom, he receives God’s love indiscriminately. In the daylight, Nick Bottom converts back into a rational man so that he cannot express the vision he has at night. His awakening from the imaginative world takes him back to the reality in which he is transformed into an spirutual creature.