Conflict in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Within the play there are four contrasting groups of characters. These include the mechanicals, the courtiers, the lovers and the fairies; each of which contribute to making the play entertaining in very different ways.
Upon the mechanicals’ first appearance, conflict is used by Shakespeare to create humour as Bottom insists he should play more roles within the performance for the courtiers, whereas Quince, the person who appears to be the organiser of the event has his own ideas. Humour follows as Bottom tries so desperately to prove himself worthy of such roles; ‘let me play Thisby too. I’ll speak in a monstrous little voice, ‘Thisne, Thisne’.’ This is also funny because we are reminded of the fact only men performed on stage during that time hence the amusing high voice demonstrated by Bottom. It is also during this scene Bottom establishes himself as the loudest and most dominant member of the group. A further source of humour lies in the mechanicals’ misuse of words...