A mid Summer Night's Dream

In a Mid Summer Night's Dream the character Nick Bottom is given a rather prominent role in the several scenes that he appears in, although he is not a lead character in the play. Bottom is unique from all other characters in the play because of the considerable contribution his character brings to the comedic value of the play and he is the only character able to enter fully in to both the human world …

…so gentle, lovable and admirable. The comedy lies in the disjunction between himself and the circumstances in which he finds himself, his existence beyond the bounds of his own competence."(81) Although he is naive, dumb and almost ridiculous he still is a character that the audience accepts and enjoys watching because of the comic relief he provides continually throughout the play.Works CitedShakespeare, William. A Mid Summer Night's Dream. Ed. Peter Holland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.