John sees a serious person as anxious and solemn while humorous person as relaxed, cheerful and dissatisfied. Therefore, Harvey argues that the individual approach humor and asses its value according to their approach to life. Therefore, individual approach to humor is unsuitable because expressing a sense of humor is a social act and how other people are involved in this humor is very essential (Harvey 26). Additionally, intentional humor incorporates the initiator, the audience and the subject of the joke. Therefore, humor is a chancy dealing because its succession relies on the response of the desired audience.
It attacks the thoughts and reactions society feels to these people and W.H Auden captures this essence of what society is actually like in the general aspect. This form of Satire is used in a less comical way in this text but still can be an essential part to the understanding and placement of crucial ideas that have been melded into this poem. But the ridicule technique can also be used in a far more comical sense, as seen in The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin. Set in the 1940’s it is a film that
This conflict between them causes comedy as there are misunderstandings, which are amusing and the audience feel superiority over the characters who do not understand some of each other’s references. At the start of the play when Rita refers to a poem about “fightin’ death an’ disease”, Frank automatically assumes its “Dylan Thomas” as Thomas’s poem about death is a part of the literary canon. However Rita replies it’s “Roger McGough’s” poem that she’s describing. This misunderstanding conveys to the audience that these characters would not conventionally associate with each other. It could be amusing to the audience as it highlights the absurdity of the situation.
"Modern comedy is cruel and cynical” Barry Cryer. To what extent do you agree that cruelty and cynicism are at the heart of the comedy in ‘Educating Rita’? Cruelty and cynicism play a vital role in creating comedy in ‘Educating Rita’. Both of the characters have aspects of their lives that the audience can laugh at, however for a majority, it can be perceived as cruel due to the fact that most of the circumstances we laugh at negatively impact the lives of the characters. Willy Russell uses superiority theory to engage the audience by creating comedy through the misfortune of others.
Wilde uses a range of features such as slapstick comedy, mistaken identity and absurd statements which would have led many to believe that ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ is purely absurd. For example, when Jack and Algernon frustratingly eat muffins, the use of severely exaggerated physical movements shown in the stage directions involving ‘(Rising)’ as well as ‘(He seizes the muffin-dish from Jack)’ ( creates humour in its simpler form as the situation hardly calls for such melodramatic actions. A constant farcical feature which the play equally revolves around, are the cases of mistaken identity which resonate all throughout the play as many of the characters unknowingly mistake both Jack and Algernon for being called Ernest. One circumstance of such absurdity Another example of mistaken identity is Miss Prism’s mistake, whereby she ‘deposited the manuscript in the bassinette and placed the baby in the hand-bag.’ misidentifying
In effect this makes a true friend, however some believe it was the Fool's constant remarks that drove Lear to madness. Some critics argue that The Fool actually is Cordelia or a representative of her. Others consider him to be an aspect of Lear's alter ego. Technically Shakespeare seems to use the Fool as a vehicle for pity or as a dramatic chorus. The Fools songs, riddles and jokes are a source of comic relief, used to break up the intensity of scenes.
“Each play contains the potential to become its own opposite.” |Features of Comedy |Features of Shakespearean Comedies | |They make us laugh |There is laughter in Shakespearean comedy, but there aren’t | | |many jokes. | |They are light-hearted |The mood
Humor is a Funny Thing...Sometimes Humor is not easy to appeal to since it can be portrayed offensively or not funny at all. Between Jonathan Swift and David Sedaris the similarities in style are limited. In Sedaris’s essay, “A Plague of Tics,” he creates humor by describing his unusual habits during his childhood and throughout his life until he was in college. His focus was directed towards himself because in many cases, the irony and humor is when the audience is laughing at him. In Swift’s essay,” Mother Tongue,” his humor is directed at the poor who live in Ireland to which does offend people.
Although this absurd situation is humorous and presented to the reader as such, the story, in the end, is an unsettling one. At the beginning of the story, the reader can believe that the protagonist is quirky, but not completely mad. As his thoughts become more and more absurd, and his perception
“A farce is [also] a comedy, a play, in which both subtle humor and hilarity are developed through improbable situations, exaggeration, and antics” (Clugston, 2010). Henri is a great example of this being that “farce are almost always guilty of excessive behavior” (Hayes, 2010. p. 25). It has to be over the top and ridiculous in order to be added to that genre. I also enjoyed it because it was easier to follow then