How Does Shakespeare Use Insults In A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare wrote on his novel A Midsummer night’s Dream “Lord, what fools there mortals be!”(3.2.116). This is one of Shakespeare’s most famous insult lines. This quote comes from the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck is conversing with Oberon about the Athenian peasants, and how ridiculous they look when they are fighting for each other’s love. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare is a comedy play, in which Shakespeare incorporates magic to the everyday life. Shakespeare also incorporated comedy to the play in a series of different ways, one of them is Language. This can be found when there is a series of misuse of words or meaning, clever use of insults, and a complex imagery. By creating a comedy play he included many insults to entertain the public.
An insults is when someone behaves with pride or
Shakespeare used insults in many ways, from characters directly having a conversation or indirectly in which a character talk badly about a different character without them knowing, characters who made fun of others appearance, or dreams, even characters who insulted themselves. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare used insults as a form of comedy, in which the characters use insults to make the audience laugh. In the olden times, men had always been convinced that women were less and for the same they had to follow mans rules and demands. Insults are used in Act Ⅳ Scene ⅰ, after Theseus, Egeus, and Hippolyta found the four lovers laying on the floor after Puck tricked them. The four lovers try explaining the reason they were sleeping on the floor, and who they all came to their senses in who they wish to marry. After hearing their story Theseus, decide to overrule Hermia’s father’s demands, and let her marry Lysander, while Demetrius is to marry Hermia.