Snug Starvelling And Snout

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In our act which our group presented we played Act 1 scene 2 on page 19 - 24. In this part of the play the mechanicals are being assigned their roles. There are six people in the discussion five being assigned roles. The most active person in this scene was Bottom. He was very enthusiastic about every part and was trying to have all of them but Quince ruins his fun... I have three characters in this play, Snug,Starvelling and Snout. The reason why i have these three characters is because they are all very small and even together they dont talk much, also some one has to take them right?
All my characters dont have much emotion they just accept their fate and dont talk much, only Snug had an intrest to take a part with less talking as

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