Essay Comparing The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty And Im Going A Comedy
Humor
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ENG 125
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1 October 12
Humor is simply defined as “The quality of being amusing or comic, esp. as expressed in literature or speech.” In this paper a comparison of works one The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber and the other is the play I’m Going a Comedy in One Act by Tristan Bernard. Both of these readings provide humor in to an audience but they are given in completely different fashion, in James Thurber’s work the most dominating of the literary elements that was used was imagination while Tristan Bernard in his work predominately used farce, although these are not the only aspects used in their work but these are the strongest in use in these stories. Humor is and always will be a well-known form literature that has successfully passed the test of time while earning many laughs from audiences along the way.
Many things make contributions to any individual piece if work, with those elements added together the end result is usually a refined literary work that will have appeal to the right audience. James Thurber put together a story that has used as much imagination as possible. As most have seen or read stories that include people that were unique of sorts the character here is very much so as you are able to read of a grown man that does a lot of day dreaming …show more content…
He looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked astonishment. She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled at him in a crowd. “You were up to fifty-five,” she said. “You know I don’t like to go more than forty. You were up to fifty-five.” Walter Mitty drove on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the remote, intimate airways of his mind. “You’re tensed up again,” said Mrs. Mitty. “It’s one of your days. I wish you’d let Dr. Ren shaw look you over.” (as cited in Clugston, 2010
Your name
ENG 125
Professor
1 October 12
Humor is simply defined as “The quality of being amusing or comic, esp. as expressed in literature or speech.” In this paper a comparison of works one The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber and the other is the play I’m Going a Comedy in One Act by Tristan Bernard. Both of these readings provide humor in to an audience but they are given in completely different fashion, in James Thurber’s work the most dominating of the literary elements that was used was imagination while Tristan Bernard in his work predominately used farce, although these are not the only aspects used in their work but these are the strongest in use in these stories. Humor is and always will be a well-known form literature that has successfully passed the test of time while earning many laughs from audiences along the way.
Many things make contributions to any individual piece if work, with those elements added together the end result is usually a refined literary work that will have appeal to the right audience. James Thurber put together a story that has used as much imagination as possible. As most have seen or read stories that include people that were unique of sorts the character here is very much so as you are able to read of a grown man that does a lot of day dreaming …show more content…
He looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked astonishment. She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled at him in a crowd. “You were up to fifty-five,” she said. “You know I don’t like to go more than forty. You were up to fifty-five.” Walter Mitty drove on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the remote, intimate airways of his mind. “You’re tensed up again,” said Mrs. Mitty. “It’s one of your days. I wish you’d let Dr. Ren shaw look you over.” (as cited in Clugston, 2010