AMND22 The play within the play in A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Patricia González and Lorena Álvarez. IES Pedro Floriani, Redondela, Interdepartamental Project 2015-16. Department of Philosophy, Department of English

1. The play within
the play

2. Why is there a comedy into a tragedy?
 The comedy: reflects the human life from a happy and unconcerned point of view.
It usually tries that people laugh until one cries. In the comedy the human and
world imperfections are expressed, but also are expressed the posibilities of
exceed the limitiations and feeblenes. That´s why the comedies always finish with
a happy end.

3.  The tragedy: it shows terrible conflicts between the characteres that makes
surprise, horror and pity in the people. This is because the solution of the tragical
problem uses to be very painful and in a lot of cases is very bloody.

4. The tragedy front of the comedy
 It is a tragedy because of the events in the play for the play
for example, the two characters fall in love the very one
carácter, but while the action is passing appear scene that
you can laugh and have a good time in the comedy.
 This is a contrast characteristic of the work and what makes
this attractive and capture the attention of the recipient, either
reader or wiewer of the work.

5. Characters belonging to the tragedy
 BOTTOM:
The overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s
marriage celebration. Bottom is full of advice and self-confidence but frequently makes silly
mistakes and misuses language. His simultaneous nonchalance about the beautiful
Titania’s sudden love for him and unawareness of the fact that Puck has transformed his
head into that of an ass mark the pinnacle of his foolish arrogance.

6.  PUCK:
Puck is Oberon’s jester, a mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals.
Though the work divides its action between several groups of characters, Puck is the
closest thing the play has to a protagonist. His enchanting, mischievous spirit
pervades the atmosphere, and his antics are responsible for many of the
complications that propel the other main plots: he mistakes the young Athenians,
applying the love potion to Lysander instead of Demetrius, thereby causing chaos
within the group of young lovers; he also transforms Bottom’s head into that of an ass.

7.  Apart from Puck and Bottom there are more related with comedy characters but
are not so important.

8. Bibliography
 http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/characters.html
 http://patchworknotebook.blogspot.com.es/2011/04/tragedy-vs-comedy-in-
midsummer-nights.html

9. MADE BY:
 Patricia González Fontán.
 Lorena Álvarez Iglesias.