Analysis of Nick Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Nick Bottom, along with Puck, is one of the two characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream who are centrally involved with all three of the stories taking place throughout the play. He is a member of the Mechanicals, a group of fools who also work as craftsmen in Athens. They also perform plays for fun and are currently working on Pyramus and Thisbe, in the hopes that Duke Theseus would want to see the play on his wedding day, and be so moved by the performance that he would grand them sixpence each day into perpetuity. Bottom plays the lead ...