Earnest is a comedy of manners‚ as it explores codes of upper and middle class society. For example‚"I don’t play accurately - any one can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression.". However‚ The Importance of Being Earnest has other types of comedy‚ such as‚ comedy of humours and farce. Comedy of humours focuses on a character of range of characters‚ who have an over riding trait or humour that dominates their personality. For example‚ Algernon’s greed. Farce is a dramatic comedy that creates
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of educating young people on keeping fit and eating healthily is handed over to schools. As a young person grows older and older‚ their time gets gobbled up by the massive load of daily activities that they carry out‚ so they usually don’t have time to cook a healthy meal and they turn to fast food as it’s fast‚ cheap and tasty. But what they don’t know is that fast food is filled with fat and artificial flavoring and that fast food is anything but healthy. And if schools start educating young
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they can also watch a comedy stage. But the writer thinks people will tend to choose to watch the stage of comedy on a television‚ because they can laugh and forget about thier fatigue easily without going anywhere. In modern era the fulfilment of a comedy spectacle will be very easy‚ because television makes us closer to anything. Nowadays we can get various types of comedy shows in Indonesian television; there are ketoprak‚ lenong‚ opera comedy‚ ludruk‚ musical comedy‚ comedy reality show‚ etc.
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beginning scenes of Twelfth Night Shakespeare uses dramatic comedy as a main way to create humour to the audience. The shock factor creates a comical atmosphere to the beginning of the play‚ and the form in which Shakespeare introduces the character’s expresses effectively each character’s over exaggerated personality creating dramatic comedy. As twelfth night is a comedy but is all about mistaken identity and love Shakespeare had to reveal the comedy in discreet ways to make the humour natural and the only
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How does Rita and Franks Relationship change between Act one scene 1 and Act 2 scene 1? Frank is a university lecturer and will be teaching Rita what she wants to know about literature and another world outside of her own. Russell has interpreted the character of Rita as a copy of himself. This is because he was also a hairdresser and went to a night school to do his O levels before he became a famous writer. When we first see Frank he is in his office and appears to be looking for a book on the
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When Shakespeare wrote his comedies‚ he didn’t write them to be funny. He wrote them with a pattern. The comedies have many similarities‚ such as characterization‚ theme‚ plot‚ and language‚ hidden in them that one would not see without analyzing the plays. For example‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Twelfth Night‚ and Much Ado About Nothing all have much in common. Each comedy contains many themes. One similar one‚ however‚ is the theme of love‚ deceit‚ and fickleness. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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CHARECTERISTIC FEATURES OF ROMANTIC COMEDIES BY SHAKESPEARE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PLAY A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM. HARMONY OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS:Shakespears’ romantic comedies vividly display true comic scenes with every humor and predominant hilariousness. They are rich with subtlety‚ humour and romance. There is a wonderful harmony of plot and character. His large hearted sympathy and tolerance bring about a soothing influence and congenial atmosphere in comedies. Everything fits well and every
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Mid-way through his life and faced with an ignominious end‚ Dante Alighieri wrote his greatest work‚ The Divine Comedy. We can understand Dante’s motive in writing this epic by reading Cantos I through III of Dante’s Inferno. The Divine Comedy was a self-analysis by a man who found himself spiritually lost. Immediately in Canto I we see that Dante "the character" is lost on a spiritual level. He awakens mid-way through his life in a dark woods severed from both light and human connections. Dante
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Becket includes elements of both tragedy and comedy in this section. Despite the clear presence of comedy within this passage‚ the extreme morbidness overshadows most elements of comedy. Becket includes comedy to give the audience an intermission from the intense‚ harrowing‚ continuous presence of tragedy in this section. The passage begins with Vladimir asking the simple question: ‘what do we do now?’‚ Estragon retorts: “What about hanging ourselves?”‚ immediately Becket forces us to confront
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“The gulling of Malvolio detracts from the plays comedy and shows the cruelty and wickedness of the characters” In the play‚ Malvolio is seen as a Puritan. He detests all manner of fun and games‚ and wishes his world to be completely free of sin‚ yet he behaves very mindlessly against his stoic nature when he believes that Olivia loves him. This leads to major feuds with characters such as Sir Toby Belch‚ Sir Andrew and Maria‚ mistress of the household. Much of the play’s comical aspect
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