Abstract
Remembering their previous apparition, a comic and ridiculous situation is expected. Indeed, once again, it turns out that they are poor actors. Their play is supposed to be tragic and to trigger the pity and compassion of the audience while their acting keeps getting worse like the use of malapropism, that is to say a wrong use of a word: line 65 'odious' instead of 'odorous'. However hard Quince tries to help Bottom by picking him up and demonstrating how the correct adjective is formed, Bottom's response is to get it wrong again. Flute is corrupting 'Ninnus' into 'Ninny' that is to say, a fool. Moreover, they do not even manage to give the line at the proper moment. It adds to the burlesque tone, slap-stick comedy, as they are ludicrous. Bottom is convinced that he means the world to them, and that he is the center of attention.
