Puck calls Bottom the shallowest thick skin of that barren sort Does Bottom deserve to be
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In A Midsummer Night's Dream, which is set in Athens, there are two kinds of worlds: The fairy world and the mortal world. The mortal world is also split into two: the rich sector and the poor: the workman. The mortal king, Theseus is going to marry Hippolyta, and for their wedding, Philostrate the master of the revels to Theseus has issued a competition amongst the workman, they would bring together plays and the best one will perform in front of the king and queen on their Wedding Day and as a reward, they receive a chance never to work again.
Shakespeare gives us a group of these workers; they have grouped up and are going to prepare a play 'The most lamentable comedy and the most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby's'. These people are: Flute who will be playing Thisby, Quince Thisby's father and the director, Snout would be playing Pyramus' father, Starveling playing Thisby's mother, Snug is going to be the lion and Bottom playing Pyramus. When these characters are introduced, it clearly is put into the open that Bottom has a dominant personality and can see himself playing each and every role in the play. "Let me play the lion too."
During this time the fairy land was going through a crisis: the fairy queen and king were fighting over a changeling boy that was in the queen's possession, the king wanted him as his own, because of this the seasons altered. The queen refused and so they are fighting. The king seeked revenge and remembered a flower called love in idleness...