This improbable situation leads to a number of absurdities, ultimately leading to the main characters realization the he shouldn’t be in love with a washing machine, with a number of laughs in the process. “Soap Opera” meets all the criteria involving a farce comedy. It has an extremely far-fetched plot that is very fast paced, as well as a vast variety of humor. From the very first line
Mike Judge Highlights Absurdities in Words, Words, Words Words, Words, Words by David Ives is a comical play casting three monkeys in an experimental setting whose task is to type Hamlet in attempt to prove a certain theory correct. The theory is that “three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet” (Ives 1633). This play reminds me of a favorite movie of mine called Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Office Space is a comical satire which points out the asinine mundane tasks associated with cubicle office work. Mike Judge fantasticly highlights the absurdities through his use of characters and blatantly obvious situations of pointless office work.
Even when he thinks the TV is one of the greatest inventions, he means that it is so great that it is an ad-plastered, brainwashing, individuality bleaching, stereotyping, couch-potato making tool of society. When Trubey explains the TV like that, he is saying the TV was one of the worst inventions in history and backing up his argument with the use of harsh words. “We are all unique individuals capable of free and creative thought”. Everybody wants to be on TV because you can watch famous people have fun. Adults love talking down on teenagers, and Trubey shows subjective language in the article.
Chief Bromden’s perceives the Combine as an all-powerful, spying and secretive commune that watches and controls everything around the ward and identifies the Big Nurse as the head of the Combine. “She’ll go on winning, just like the combine, because she has all the power of the Combine behind her”. Bromden observes the Combine as a machine that seeks to harshly repair the mentally damaged, inoculating fear into the patients and eliminating any form of anti-establishment. This relates to the “Red Scare” during the 1950’s and the ‘domino theory’ put into America’s idea of communism. It was feared that communism would grow so large and overpowering that if anyone were to challenge the system, they would be punished, which is displayed in “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest” by McMurphy’s demise.
To what extent is ‘The History Boys’ a comedy of Tragicomedy? Comedy is a subjective genre, one which can be light and humorous or satirical in tone, and usually contains a happy resolution in an attempt to uplift the audience. Due to being subjective, comedy can be split into many different types; black comedy, tragicomedy, spoof comedy or arguably found in this play, satirical comedy. Comedy is created by Bennett throughout The History Boys through several techniques including the contrasting of characters, clever juxtapositions and intelligent metaphors. Although I am convinced about this play fitting to the genre of Satire, tragicomedy is my main focus of which The History Boys fits in as it contains a lot of it, maybe to appeal to a wider audience.
Many episodes are based off of real-world problems, and are solved through extensive use of satire. The show creates a stage where the problem in question is so exaggerated that people understand the sarcasm beneath, and can unravel the true meaning of the episode. One episode of South Park has Cartman, a rude little boy who has many troubles about him, arrest a group of Eastern people who are new to South Park because he is afraid of a terrorist threat. In the end, the Eastern people had nothing to do with a bomb threat of course, but a real bomb threat was discovered because of his stereotypical judgements. From this, the morally sound character, Stan, tells the audience that stereotyping people is wrong, but it is also good to be cautious of certain things.
However, it is difficult to believe that Cathy chose to be evil to the extreme that Steinbeck depicts. He described every moment of her life as being devoted to bringing other people down, and pulling herself up. She achieved this through devious schemes that trapped many important men in compromising positions, and also by clever plots that allowed her to take over one of the most successful whore houses in Salinas. Cathy was a secretive person who went to great measures to cover her past and her feelings. In turn, chosen isolation combined with the lack of love is a clear identification of the source of her evil, which is
This can be seen in Scene 1, where Rita is struggling to get in past the worse-for-wear door. When she eventually makes it in she says 'It's that stupid bleedin' handle on the door. You wanna get it fixed!'. This creates comedy because she is putting Frank in his place, telling him exactly what she thinks of the door and giving him orders like a teacher would do. What makes this more comedic is the fact that this is the first time she and Frank have met; these are the first words Rita says face to face with Frank.
As the play “King Lear” is a well-known play to the reader, adjustments to its normality gives the reader a joyful experience. The “get ready man”, whose name himself is already funny, interrupts the play and presents himself as a lunatic. His hyperbole of “the world is coming to an end” is of course absurd and incredulous to the reader, but it arouses the reader’s unexpectedness, which is relieved through the form of humor. Furthermore, his ridiculous shouting fits well in the dialogue and special effects of the performance, which adds dramatic effects to the story. All of this adds to the humor of the play.
The sentimental elements and the unsentimental malice a livelier, more dramatic impression from their contrast: and the contrast itself makes the dolling life of the play more interesting to an audience. There is plenty in the play to interest men and women of a refined and idle society and plenty more to amuse men and women of a coarser type and as for the idealist and the dreaming lover – they have food enough and to spare. Music and love and high courtesies interchanged in courtly gardens are jollity and practical jokes and a riot of laughter. Although there are a few blemishes in the dramatic technique of Twelfth Night, it is superior in the point of delight and in its comic aspect to the other comedies of Shakespeare. The platonic love is consummately represented in the Derke.