This is to challenge an audience’s expectations of the play; accumulated due to genre theory. The convention of the detective having superior powers of observation (e.g. a rationcinative detective) is the common expectation from an audience for the detective of a crime fiction novel. Tom Stoppard subverts this convention by making the detective a bumbling, incompetent detective who doesn’t understand what’s going on and at one point exclaims “I’ll phone to police!”. After another character, Cynthia points out to Hound “But you are the police…”, Hound responds to this replying “Well thank God I’m here!” The satirical subversion of this convention ridicules the audiences desire for a capable hero in the role of the detective and mocks the expectation gathered by genre theory and our wish for order.
“The gulling of Malvolio is a joke that goes too far”. To what extent does Shakespeare blur the boundaries of comedy in his depiction of the gulling of Malvolio? The boundaries of comedy can sometimes be blurred as they range between light and dark comedy. Dark comedy is often used to dismember the potential discomfort an audience may feel should heavy moral subjects arise in pieces of art such as psychological impairment in Twelfth Night. Malvolio is used in Twelfth Night to personify the notion of Lent and order in the text and is the butt of the comedy in the sub-plot.
Sure, so what if Lush Life is meant to portray the life of a detective correctly, showing readers that detectives usually have to mess up, be frustrated, meet obstacles, be bored, and deal with injustice? People read books to escape reality, but Lush Life, instead, paints a portrait of reality and not leaving out any piece of crap involved. We already know that life sucks, the police sucks, and bad guys always get away so even if Price was trying to show that we don’t live in a perfect world and that televised and dramatized versions are ultimately inaccurate, he didn’t have to turn Eric Cash’s life upside down and have the justice system be portrayed as incompetent and unfair. However, Price did and it’s just darn unfair. Turning Eric Cash’s life upside down seemed like a fun past time for Price.
* The ‘detectives’ (Jack & Lindsey), are far from the conventional detective, and hence allows the audience to only be subconsciously aware that the text revolves around a crime and that of the crime genre. * We question the effectiveness of the crime due to it being set in a different era from ours. Do we the audience feel as attached or emotional towards it, even though it’s not in ‘our time’? Or is it frightening that crimes like this have been occurring for so long? * The romantic storyline is in place to give the protagonist authenticity and allow the audience to feel the loss of her at varying levels.
It is a humorous story because one would not think that an office truly runs on the system illustrated in the story. When in truth this is what reality has come to, a circus. The author introduces the story with a skewed sense of humor. He is trying to mock the system by setting up a list of rules that must be abided by or else “you may be let go”(484). “Orientation” meets the criteria for Goldwag’s rule of postmodern fiction story telling due to the way the character contradicts himself within the same sentence, “ This is your phone.
Peter quince is one of the illustrious Mechanicals who puts on the play, Pyramus and Thisbe. In the mockery of a "play within the play,” Shakespeare punctuated Quince's Prologue, incorrectly in order to make it comical. Therefore the meaning of what Quince says is different from what he intends. "If we offend, it is with our good will. That..." The sentence here should read "if we offend, it is our good will that...” Therefore Shakespeare uses the mechanicals to create comedy.
For instance Sherlock Holmes gets thrills by looking at a dead body, which in-turn could also reflect his primitive desire to indulge in murders, but on the same hand he keeps his overflowing desire from entering the ego by restoring to sublimation of the impulses, thus working against id, to the restore the status quo- a behavior more acceptable by the society. Dupin the detective figure in the Purloin Letter, might as well possess the same attuned unconsciousness as to that of the criminal, but at the same there are instances that gives out to the readers, as myself something more than that. His oddities to work at the night, the meaning of his name dupin as to being deception, the uncovering of truth only known by him or rather the biased narration of the solution of the crime. The criminal named as Minister D (the first alphabet of the name Dupin), his very intention of the ransom reward, all sums up to a figure of split personality in Dupin and Minister D being his sub. The Purloined
Willy Russell uses superiority theory to engage the audience by creating comedy through the misfortune of others. The character of Frank is very cynical as he fails to see the good in anybody for a majority of the play and he believes that other people are motivated purely by self-interest. However, some people may argue that cruelty and cynicism are not at the heart of the comedy in the play and that the play could still be successful without these themes. One theme that could be seen as superior to cruelty and cynicism is culture and class because this theme causes confusion and misunderstanding between the two characters which as a result produces comedy. In the play ‘Educating Rita’ cruelty and cynicism feature a great deal.
Madness in Hamlet and King Lear The subject of madness is a major theme in two of Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedies, “Hamlet” and “King Lear”. In both of these plays, a character feigns insanity to carry out a motive - Hamlet and Edgar respectively. However, while it is made quite clear to the audience that Edgar is only pretending to be a mad beggar (“Whiles I may escape I will preserve myself, and am bethought to take the basest and most poorest shape that ever penury, in contempt of man brought near to beast”), it is somewhat less clear whether Hamlet has crossed the line and lost control of his “antic disposition”. Shakespeare gives evidence which suggests that Hamlet is sane by having three other men also witness the manifestation of the ghost of Hamlet’s father. If Hamlet were to have seen his father’s ghost by himself, there would be a greater argument for him being insane from the outset of the play.
“Les Miserables” Analysis Someone once said, “There is a way of falling into error while on the way to truth.” In other words, doing something wrong can allow people to see what is right. In “Les Miserables”, Inspector Javert’s only motive is to arrest Jean Valjean for being a convict. Jean soon became a new man as he had promised. There is also a group of republicans who fought for what they believed in, but failed. These scenes in the movie best exemplify the quotation to be true since the characters seek truth but faced conflict.