If you like acting and plays, then you should read A Midsummer
Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream,
as well as many other Shakespeare novels, is famous for it's gradual
but extensive character development, complicated plot, and
interesting descriptions. A Midsummer Night's Dream contains all of
Shakespeare's tricks of story and character development.
Shakespeare is even now considered the best playwright ever. He
always used complex English to make his plays have artistic value;
even though it was not the way people talked back then.
Character development always plays an important role in a
novel, play, or story. Shakespeare was recognized as the best there
was at developing characters when he was writing his plays.
Currently, he is still considered the best. He made his characters
interesting by making them very realistic and human with problems
and faults found in everyday common people. In A Midsummer
Night's Dream, there is powerful character development just by what
the characters say, since the whole play is dialogue. For instance,
Shakespeare symbolizes that Bottom is a comical character by saying
"Methinks I have a great desire for a bottle of hay" instead of a
'bundle of hay'. Shakespeare also demonstrates Bottom's devotion to
the theater by the way he always wants every part in the play
"Pyramus and Thisby". For example, Bottom is first developed as a
common man, then shows his love for theater, next he is egocentric,
then he feels powerful when Titania is in love with him. Bottom has a
lot of character growth. Puck, on the other hand, does not have too
much character growth. Puck's character tells us he is not too
interested in love and he likes to joke around with mortals and love.
Puck is also a comical character because of all the mistakes he has
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