1 In the setting and tone of the play, food becomes important because other issues such as survival, morality and emotion are not addressed. So relationships and conflicts between individuals are often centered on food. In Act 1, the cucumber sandwiches are used as sign of the hospitality offered to a powerful guest. In the teatime scene between Cecily
You can tell that nobody takes them seriously, especially when Leonato shows no sign of gratefulness that he has captured two men by simply saying “go drink some wine” (Shakespeare 46) As we look into the theories of comedy for the play, it is clear that an option is Freud’s theory. He believes that the essence of comedy and laughter come at the extent of others. Comedy is often a disguised form of anger or aggression. We find ourselves, as well as some of the characters in the play, laughing at the fact that some of the characters are being manipulated into believing one thing from another. Much Ado About Nothing was a difficult play for me to understand at first, but after watching the play and going back and reading it again it definitely helped my understanding of the sarcasm happening by the characters.
Thoughtful laughter is define to be irrelevant to the scene, because muffins and romantic has no similarities in this scene. Thoughtful laughter makes you think of why Algy and jack are fighting over muffins. The Muffin scene was one of the funniest parts in the play, and it could have been to distract the reader. When I was reading this book, I was thinking of a boring book, but the muffin scene caught me off guard. I was thinking how this makes all men look like liar and incompetent.
It is suggested by this then that the play holds no deeper meaning or message of morality; it is simply designed to fulfill a purpose through usage of traditional comedic techniques. However, some have interpretated themes of sexuality and a gentle mocking of Victorian customs ultimately leaving the play open to assumption. The Importance of being Earnest certainly maintains many traits of a great comedy of manners, "A comedy that satirizes behaviour in a particular social group"(dictionary.com). In fact many people have hailed it as "the greatest stage comedy of all time", this triumph supports the viewpoint that Wilde merely succeeded in entertaining his audience rather than channeling a deeper understanding. The use of slapstick by Wilde produces a contrived and absurd plotline that is in every way unrealistic.
John T. Edge for sure did not leave until he ate those pickled pig lips. Pickled pig lips? That is just flat out nasty, but it made for an amazing profile. This profile was saturated with detail just as those pickled pig's lips were saturated in pickling juice. I like how the author set the scene in the first paragraph but then skipped backward to tell you how he got to where he was, with pig lips sitting in front of him.
If you go to Flint and Jackson you’ll get a Coney dog that is it’s same kind of bun same kind of hot dog, but the chili’s different, its really called a meat topping, it’s not called a chili sauce. It’s drier, it’s not as runny, some people in Flint look derisively at the Detroit style and say “oh that’s mostly just gravy”, they like a meatier, drier topping on their Coney dogs. One of the main ingredients in that is beef heart, a lot of people don’t know that, that’s one of the ingredients there. Then if you go to farther out Michigan, if you go for example to Saginaw and Bay City you’ll find Coney dogs that
I was anxious to eat this special meal because it was the first time I would try the pozole. The aroma coming out of the pot where the pozole was cooking was tingling through my nostrils as I breathed in, and also making my mouth extra watery. When I asked my mom what pozole was, all she said was that it was like menudo. My heart sunk when I heard this. Menudo was the food I hated most.
They bring in a lot of content which fits into to comedy criteria as well as enable the plot to develop fully. Firstly, the aspect of comedy ' servants and masters' is one where The Importance of Being Earnest fits perfectly as Lane and Merriman are both butlers of Jack and Algernon-the main characters of the play. They show the contrast between the lower and upper class in the Victorian Era which is a theme often found in comedic plays. Additionally, the relationship between Lane and Algernon could possibly represent the theme of youth and age-the generation gap. This is shown when Algernon asks Lane, " Is marriage so demoralising as that?"
Both Jack and Algernon are admired by two young ladies who mistakenly believe the men's names to be Ernest, and who adore the men for this very reason. In relating the story of mix-ups and mistaken identities, the ideals and manners of the Victorian society are satirized in a comedy where the characters "treat all the trivial things of life seriously and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality" (Wilde back cover), in the words of the author himself. Oscar Wilde’s comical scenes often take their source in social satire and non-conformism (Baselga 15). Throughout his play, In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde satirizes education, women, and morality. Oscar Wilde satirizes the British education by using Lady Bracknell.
Ben gekfse Mrs. Breezee American Literature 14 Oct. 2012 Unreliable Narrator in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas “Theres nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge”(4). If this does not make readers doubt the narrator, nothing will. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a story of two men on “a savage journey to the heart of the American dream”(20), or at least that’s what they call it. This might not sound appealing, but the insanity of this book is amazing. Throughout the entire story, Raoul Duke and his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, are on a trip to Las Vegas while pumping their bodies full of many dangerous drugs.