Conflict is the essence of drama

I see entertainment as something that engages its audience and captures their belief. This may be due to the dramatic qualities it encompasses; such as humour, romance and suspense. I feel Shakespeare has utilised conflict within the play, in many forms, to generate these dramatic qualities thus making the play entertaining.
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...