Humor in A Midsummer Nights Dream :: Midsummer Nights Dream

Humor in A Midsummer Nights Dream  Shakespe be uses m some(prenominal) ways to delineate humor and make his plays a successbecause of it.  He created a careful mix of love with humor to create a successcalled A Midsummer Nights Dream.  The focus of this paper is to describe howShakespeare uses humor in his play. One way that Shakespeare uses humor in this play is by using plain humor thatneed not be interpreted in any way.  He did this by creating the artisans.  Theartisans, obviously are not intelligent at all, but try to be.  They mess upgrammar, spelling, and e reallything that the author of Pyramus and Thisby hadwanted for his play.  For instance, when Bottom says Thisbe, the flowers of terrible savors sweet,82  he was supposted to say odors instead of odious inthe sentence.  Odors means fragrant smells, while odious means repulsive.  Asimple mis invade by individual that is low in the society, but totally changes themeaning of the s entence.  This humor is obvious to everybody watching thatBottom had made a mistake.  This type of humor, while obvious, sometimes doesntportray the meaning correctly.  Inferred humor is sometimes more suited for this.  Shakespeare used something like inferred humor to get across some othermeanings that added to the play.  One good exercising is the character of puck.Puck is a hyperactive child that gets into a lot of mischief.  His attitudetoward his tasks is sort of a light and airy one.  He does not take lifeseriously, he only does what is fun.  This type of character is totallydifferent than everyone else in the play they are in a serious tone, while Puckis that dancing around pulling pranks on everyone.  One good example of a prankthat Puck created was putting an Ass head on Bottom.  It was unnecessary, justfun.  What made him funny was these sort of pranks, and the contrast of hisattitude toward the other ones in the story.&nb sp For example, Lysander is bound upin love for Hermia and Helena, depending on what part of the play.  He is veryserious and sad because Hermia is being forced to marry Demetrius.  Sort ofequivalent to a tragedy.  Puck is just creating mischief and having fun. Another way that Shakespeare uses humor is that he uses examples that wouldnever happen in real life.  For example, after Lysander and Demetrius had beenled around the kings oak for a long time, they fell down and went to sleep.This contains no logic whatsoever, because they are trying to kill each other,