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Funny Ideas In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare written in the mid 1590’s aims to entertain his audience with his creative themes and funny ideas. While the play is a comedy which had many funny ideas put into it A few of Shakespeare's funniest, most iconic, and memorable ideas are Hermia and her fathers relationship and how shocking it was, when the mischievous Puck turns one of the Tradesmen Bottom’s into an ass, and the most iconic part of the play the Tradesmens play Pyramus and Thisbe that they put on for the Duke and Queen. During A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare had a lot of funny ideas he put into this comedy, one that really stands out is the relationship between Hermia and her father Egeus not for their jokes but for how …show more content…

Which was loved by the audience for many centuries and was one of the key moments in the play. One of the lines said during this part in the play said by Snout “O bottom, thou art changed” which Shakespeare used a Humerus Technique known as stating the obvious which catches us off guard which has a comedic effect on it as well as the use of visual comedy. This was amusing because it shows us how much of a trouble maker and comedian the character of Puck really is. This act of turning his head into an ass relates to the weird and embarrassing as well unexpected situations that people get in the real world which may be out of their control. This represents the experience as a human being which will feel vulnerable and foolish mostly likely at some point in their …show more content…

The reason that their play was so amusing is because of how terrible it was. One of the many reasons why it was so bad was because of the use of physical comedy which was their clumsy movements, as well as their awkward stage presences. But one of the biggest reasons for their play was because they barely had any acting skill. They were all amateur actors, they had very over the top interactions with their roles in the play which made it even more funny for the audience. The Humor is most shown in one of the lines from their play said by the Peter Quince “That I, one Snout by name, present a wall” this line had such good irony because of his name Snout referring to his noise and the fact that he was giving a non speaking role that was the role of the wall. This is also can be seen in the real world by the amateur actors in the world trying to make a start to their acting careers but not being the best at acting as well they too will most likely end up doing the same things the Tradesmen did in their play things like forgetting lines, clumsiness as well as many other rookie

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