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 ways. The movie gives Bottom the same dialogue mentioned in the text but the audience gives more solicitude to Bottom from the movie than from the text. Take the case of Bottom and the craftsmen assigning lines to one another. At the end of this scene in the movie, as Bottom leaves after he was asigned the line of Pyramus in act 1, scene 2, he returns to his house where his wife looks to be unpleased with him and Bottom seems to feel some regret or remorse. The audience shows sympathy to Bottom here because Bottom's home life is not enjoyable and peaceful which gives the audience a sense of feeling for him and empathy for his life, hoping it will become better. Another example that can be taken into consideration is near the end of the play when Theseus allows the craftsmen to leave the stage after their performance. Although the scene comes to an imediate close in the book, the movie shows what the craftsmen do after the play is done, specifically Bottom. He returns to his house and he seems to ponder upon his day. He looks at a ring he had found and he seems to ponder about it. In the same scene, fairies come and
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 ways. The movie gives Bottom the same dialogue mentioned in the text but the audience gives more solicitude to Bottom from the movie than from the text. Take the case of Bottom and the craftsmen assigning lines to one another. At the end of this scene in the movie, as Bottom leaves after he was asigned the line of Pyramus in act 1, scene 2, he returns to his house where his wife looks to be unpleased with him and Bottom seems to feel some regret or remorse. The audience shows sympathy to Bottom here because Bottom's home life is not enjoyable and peaceful which gives the audience a sense of feeling for him and empathy for his life, hoping it will become better. Another example that can be taken into consideration is near the end of the play when Theseus allows the craftsmen to leave the stage after their performance. Although the scene comes to an imediate close in the book, the movie shows what the craftsmen do after the play is done, specifically Bottom. He returns to his house and he seems to ponder upon his day. He looks at a ring he had found and he seems to ponder about it. In the same scene, fairies come and