Explain why or why not. I think there are many reasons a person will laugh at a joke that will put down other people. One such reason is immaturity. Having worked with teenagers I think that this is their favorite way to joke around. I think it makes them feel better about themselves.
Yu 1 Eric Yu Ms. Dunlop ENG 1DY 20 September 2013 Alan’s Flirtatious Attempt Creepy and flirtatious, are some words that describe Alan from the story, Loathe At First Sight by Ellen Conford. At first sight, Alan appears to be a joyful typical teenager, but upon further inspection it is revealed that he is far from “typical”. Alan seems rather creepy in the story, especially when he says, “I was admiring you from afar, and I wanted to admire you from a-near.” (Conford 1). He is also a quite humorous person, which he reveals to the readers when he says, “Oh, boy, this whole conversation has gotten off on the wrong foot. Wrong foot---ha!
The Friar responds with, “Young men’s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts but, in their eyes jesu maria, what the deal of brine/ Hath washes thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!”(2.3.68-90). In the first act, Romeo thought himself to be in love with Rosaline. Romeo had been distraught over the fact that his beloved Rosaline was going to become a nun. Romeo would never be able to love Rosoline, or be with her. Friar Lawrence makes fun of Romeo saying that young men only love what they see.
As I said before in the beginning of the book Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is gloomy and feeling hopeless about love because Rosaline (the women he “loves”) is not going to get married. He says: “She is too fair, too wise, wisely to far, To merit bliss by making
The use of slapstick by Wilde produces a contrived and absurd plotline that is in every way unrealistic. The lack of morality in the characters defines how undeveloped they are. For example, Algernon uses the aphorism, "The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain" highlighting his ignorance and casual selfishness. Each one of the characters is in some way lacking either true morality or even awareness of reality. Gwendolyn in particular is fond and proud of her education yet in the end she easily forgives Jack for lying to her throughout the play underlying a sense of stupidity.
This offends John because he compares himself to Romeo (which explains why he is annoying) and Lenina to Juliet (which explains the stupidity). Also, he takes his Shakespeare very seriously. I think that John will, like Romeo, do something really idiotic to gain Lenina’s love. Perhaps by jumping off a building, (hopefully). Maybe he is going to profess his love in front of all the workers at the Centre, and then Lenina will be really happy, but also embarrassed because an “uncivilized” person likes her.
/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (I.v.50-51) This shows his impulsiveness by not mentioning Rosaline at all and starting to fall in love with a girl he does not even know. Yet does he know she is a Capulet. Romeo’s action of falling in love leads to much grief of others. It leads to the deaths of Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, and Lady Montague. The fates and lives of these people, Romeo included, could have been spared if his tragic flaw had not taken over when
In this scene Mercutio seems to be better at bantering than Romeo, always having a response to everything that Romeo says: “Romeo: ‘I dreamt a dream tonight’ Mercutio: ‘And so did I’ Romeo: ‘And what was yours’ Mercutio: ‘That dreamers often lie’ “ This shows that Mercutio is better at bantering than Romeo and also that he is starting to get angry with Romeo about him being all Petrarchan and sad about his unreturned love for Rosaline and during this scene you can see him starting all nice and sympathetic about Romeo’s feelings, but he gets angrier and angrier as Romeo refuses to come to the party until Mercutio make the Queen Mab speech, where he shows how he has been hurt by love in the past, and he his speech becomes quite disturbing, about rape and slitting necks, and how that love is dangerous, unfair and downright cruel. He uses disturbing creatures to represent love such as “the hag… that presses them and learns them first to bear” and soldiers that “then dreams of cutting foreign throats”. This shows how Mercutio's version of love is different to Romeo’s and how Romeo is inexperienced in love and that Mercutio is over-experienced in love, and doesn’t want any more. In the film, Mercutio arrives in a red car, which is the colour of lust, sex but also blood, and he is also laughing, showing his care-free attitude. When he steps out, he is dressed as a
Mercutio, the hot-headed best friend of Romeo, adds wit and humor to the play Romeo and Juliet and was included in the play to make the audience laugh and also to keep them on the edge of their seats with suspense. Mercutio, in his humorous nature, loved to tease Romeo about his lovesickness; he calls Romeo a
Stella is the wife of Stanley and also the main character in my opinion. She’s a huge dope, who’s fallen in love with the wrong guy. Even after Stanley hits her she still comes back to him “There is the sound of a blow [and] Stella cries out”. She’s blinded by how things used to be between them when they first started dating. Stella is willing to look past everything Stanley does because she loves him and that makes her the fool of the play.