The play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare offers a wonderful contrast in human mentality. Shakespeare provides insight into man's conflict with the rational versus emotional characteristics of human behavior. Athens represents the logical side, with its flourishing government and society. The fairy woods represents the wilder, irrational side where nothing seems to follow any sort of structure. The character of Bottom the weaver is a direct reflection of these two worlds. He brings the rational and irrational elements of the play together in several ways. Nick Bottom is indeed one of Shakespeare's most memorable creations. He is first...
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Bottom conducts himself with such sobriety and yet such grace, with his own good sense and yet with such enjoyment that we see that he is a weaver in the deeper sense too-Bottom is supremely capable of uniting these disparate worlds. He is indeed the reel on which the thread is wound and his very person embodies the union of reality and illusion, carrying as he does Puck's trick on his real, sturdy shoulders. His love of life enables him to engage in it to the fullest, which is what unites these two experiences.