Bottom’s Weave The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents a wonderful contrast between reality and fantasy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream gives us insight into man’s conflict with rational versus emotional characteristics of human behavior. The City of Athens represents the logical side, with its flourishing government and society. The woods represent the wilder, irrational side where nothing seems to follow a normal path. The character of Bottom the weaver directly reflects …showed first 75 words of 832 total…

…showed last 75 words of 832 total…a joke of his own name when he says that men are fools to love as he says to Titania in this line: “reason and love keep little company together nowadays”(III.i). The way Bottom acts throughout the play give us the impression that Bottom is a weaver in more ways then one. Bottom helps weave the play together. He unites the two worlds of reality and make believe together all throughout the play.