Comparing Puck And Bottom In 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

Puck and Bottom: Different but Alike There are two characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Puck and Bottom. They are funny, and they bring a great amount of comic relief to the play. They do have their differences, however. Bottom is an artisan while Puck is a fairy. Being a fairy is considered higher than a job like Bottom’s. Being an artisan is just the same as being any old commoner. These two are virtually the same, but also different in the way they make the people of the audience think. Both characters have dreams that they wake up from. This makes the audience think they are in a dreamlike state. It is meant to make them question. It is also why the title of the play is named what it is. The dreams are meant to let the audience know that they cannot know everything because what happens in dreams is strange and cannot be explained.

He does not talk in a fancy way. He is a lower person because of his job and level of education, and he does not know how to speak properly because of that. Bottom does speak in a more serious tone. His words mean something. The audience knows that when Bottom speaks, they are to listen because his words are of the utmost importance. “The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man / hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his / tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what / my dream was” (4.1.213). The quote does not seem to make sense, but it can be interpreted in a way that means the audience cannot know everything. People simply cannot know everything, and they would need other worldly powers to understand all