of literature give life to the story and are a gateway of expressing different emotions and personality traits. The characters of “Twelfth Night” provide laughter and distinct opinions on love. Malvolio‚ Olivia and Viola are three main characters that have completely different perspectives on love but‚ have one thing in common: providing laughter to readers. Malvolio is a targeted character that provides amusement and causes readers to dislike him. He oozes self-love and that has become the root
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McMurphy arrives at the mental institution with vivacity and happiness. He enters the ward by being boisterous and full of laughter. His laughter is noticed by all the patients because it is the first laughter they have heard in years. Chief Bromden recalls that his relatives used to mock the government officials by laughing and comments “I forget sometimes what laughter can do‚” (pg 95). McMurphy is noticeably different than the other patients at the ward. Most of the patients are languid and
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A Point of View: Is there a secret to a happy marriage? Nobody can explain the secret to a happy marriage‚ says Adam Gopnik‚ but it doesn’t stop people trying. Anyone who tells you their rules for a happy marriage doesn’t have one. There’s a truth universally acknowledged‚ or one that ought to be anyway. Just as the people who write books about good sex are never people you would want to sleep with‚ and the academics who write articles about the disappearance of civility always sound ferociously
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“India is not a nation‚ nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.” ― Muhammad Ali Jinnah “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks‚ he becomes." ― Mahatma Gandhi “What is done cannot be undone‚ Knowing that‚ face it but do not run.” ― Rupansh Gupta “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” ― Jawaharlal Nehru At the stroke of the midnight hour‚ when the world sleeps‚ India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history
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Humor from Mark Twain to Now Laughter is the first thing that a newborn child does when they are born into the world. From the beginning‚ they know how to laugh from ear to ear. The expression of joy through laughter is a force to be reckoned with. The natural response to humor is to come close to it and the opposite can be said for pain. It is one of the best remedies for things such as physical and emotional pain as well as help maintain a healthy relationship with friends and family. It is such
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for children‚ but this time it turns into a creepy‚ Cheshire cat smile. The clown does not have as many colors on its clothing‚ and now they are toned down. All of the colors seem to have a gray tint to them. The clown that was once used to cause laughter‚ is now haunting. Throughout many haunted houses are clowns chasing every victim and awaiting a chance to scare even more‚ instead of performing tricks to light up children’s faces. Haunted houses aren’t the only things that have popularized clowns
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False Diagnosis of Insanity In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey‚ the false diagnosis of insanity is used as a manipulation tool that will result in the patients’ control over the ward. Throughout the novel Nurse Ratched and her staff presume that many patients in the ward are mentally ill and the state of insanity was highly encouraged. The author does however imply that the big nurse possessed an awareness of their sanity through her persistence with forcing medications and
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A Lifetime’s Theme Laughter‚ let downs‚ memories‚ and regrets are all aspects of life itself. Explaining these aspects is the hardest part. When is laughter present? When are let downs expected? Where can memories lead? How do these all affect someone in the long run? The poem “Schoolsville” does a great job of representing life itself. It points towards life in general and explains the comical‚ serious and memorable‚ then poignant parts of life. Laughter is something that pleases the mind. Throughout
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This same laughter is the laughter the narrator cannot escape throughout the piece. It causes the author to be conflicted between becoming the object of the mob’s disappointment and anger‚ or shooting the elephant‚ a creature that he knows that should be left alone. Orwell
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Journal of American Medical Association‚ 282. 875-880. du Pre ’‚ A. (2000). Communicating about health: Issues and perspectives. Mountain View‚ CA: Mayfield Publishing Company. Granick‚ S. (1995). The therapeutic value of laughter. USA Today Magazine‚124‚ 1-6. Walsh‚ J. (1928). Laughter and health. NY: Appleton.
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