Puck decides to make Bottom an ass (donkey), which he can do because he's magic. Puck does this to Bottom because he loves to make mischief and because he has a poor opinion of Bottom as an actor and wants to make fun of him. Because Bottom acts like a jackass, Puck thinks he ought to look like one.
The information given is sufficient only to determine the areas of the top and bottom of the puck. The area of the curved side depends on the width (or height) of the puck, which is not specified.
No. It was actually a tennis ball. The first "puck" was a ball with the top and bottom chopped off.
Puck uses a magic flower to make Titania fall in love with Bottom, who has been transformed into a donkey by Puck's mischief. This causes a comedic chaos in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
He magically turns him into a donkey.
Puck doesn't get transformed into a donkey.Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, doesn't get turned into a donkey. He, in his characteristic mischeviousness, transforms Bottom's head into a donkey's. Bottom is in the woods rehearsing a play (Pyramus and Thisbe) that will be presented for Theseus and his wife's wedding. Puck isn't impressed and instead, bored, so he changes Bottom's head into a donkey's and leads the poor weaver senselessly around the woods and into where Titania is. Then Titania wakes up and falls in love with Bottom the Weaver, in this case, Bottom the donkey. She falls in love with him because she has some flower-love-potion type rubbed on her eyes by her angry and annoyed husband, Oberon. In the end, Bottom returns to his troupe of actors and perform the play for Theseus' wedding day.
Puck transforms Bottom's head into that of a donkey as part of a prank orchestrated by Oberon in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Bottom is then seen by his friends, who are terrified by his new appearance.
Puck changes Bottom's head to that of what they refer to as an "ass". No, this doesn't mean a butt. It's the Elizabethan word for "donkey". However, it is ironic that Bottom gets an ass's (donkey's) head because 1) He's been acting like an ass. 2) His name is Bottom, as in the polite term for butt.
Bottom, a character in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," gets transformed into a donkey by the mischievous Puck as a result of a spell cast by Puck on behalf of Oberon, the Fairy King. This transformation is part of the magical mischief and chaos that occurs in the play, adding to the comedic elements and misunderstandings that drive the plot.
Bottom is vain and full of himself, and so we enjoy him being taken down a peg and exposed for the ass he is.
So when Titania awakens, she'll fall in love with a man with a donkey head.
Puck is a mischievous fairy and he turns Bottom, a working class Athenian Actor into a form that makes him the butt of most of the jokes in William Shakespeareâ??s â??A Midsummer Nightâ??s Dreamâ??. Also on the receiving end of mischief is Titania, Oberon's Fairy Queen, who suffering from a love charm, falls in love with the donkey-headed Bottom.