****************************************************************** Black comedy/blackhumour -is concerned with the humorous treatment of the shocking‚ horrific and macabre. Black comedy is actually a form of drama which displays a marked disillusionment and cynicism. It shows human beings without conviction with little hope‚ regulated by fate or fortune or comprehensible powers. In fact‚ human beings in an ‘absurd’ predicament at its darkest‚ such comedy is pervaded by a kind of sour despair; we can’t do anything
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behavior rules‚ and each‚ even the slightest deviation from the rule was considered an offence which made the delinquent publicly disgraced. Even literature and art had its cannons which were to be respected" (Mathews‚ 2009). In Oscar Wilde ’s satirical comedy‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Victorian hypocrisy is presented within the lines of the play as it unfolds a story about the courtship of two young women and men of that era. Wilde utilizes triviality as the guise to unwind his message about the
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WAKING THE WOLF presents as a dark‚ crime comedy. The goal is well defined and the stakes are fairly high and personal. The plot is straightforward. There are solid themes about revenge‚ redemption‚ and second chances. While there’s merit in the idea of a distraught husband kidnapping his unfaithful wife‚ the script would benefit from more development in the areas of character development‚ tension‚ and comedy style. First‚ the opening and first act clearly set up the ordinary world of the protagonist
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The Importance of Being Earnest is a serious comedy about trivial matters The Importance of being Earnest is a play that satirizes the Victorian upper classes. In the play‚ Oscar Wide makes fun of the upper class in many ways. Most commonly‚ Wilde does this by using comic irony‚ humor‚ and witty statements. However‚ if we look deeper into the text‚ a lot of the trivial matters characters discuss have a serious side to them. Wilde uses these matters to satirize the Victorian upper even more. The
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Look again at Act V Scene 4. To what extent do you find it a satisfactory conclusion to the play? Act V Scene 4 is a satisfactory conclusion to the play Much Ado About Nothing because it includes certain conventions of comedy; an example being the happy ending when Hero and Claudio are reunited and Benedick and Beatrice’s love is made public. There is dramatic irony within this scene as deception is used as Hero pretends to be her ‘cousin’‚ which creates tension as the audience wonder whether
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At the comedy part‚ I thought it will be more of comedy‚ just an absurd film which makes the audience laugh and laugh. But‚ there’s a unique and unexpected plot twists which happened in the other part of the film. The technique used in the plot is very brilliant‚ added by the point
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The satire on Russian literature took a subject that was originally serious and dark and turned it on its head. A comedy which requires thought‚ Love and Death provides the viewers jokes with a level of philosophy. The leading characters Boris and Sonia played by Woody Allen and Diane Keaton are intelligent philosophers in their own right. If I can offer any criticism is that the comedy is dark but‚ also offensive to certain ethnic groups. In the movie Boris claims to have gotten "so depressed‚ he
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Comedies were performed in the Great Dionysia just like tragedies; also comedies were entered in contests in other festival‚ known as the Lesser Dionysia‚ and it was celebrated in the winter. Comedies combined poetry with coarse language. For example they featured buffoonery‚ slapstick‚ obscenity‚ and horseplay. The comedy actors dressed in weird costumes that had paddled bellies or rumps for outrageous effects. “The comic playwrights made their own plots and they focused on important matters
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this and say that the last scene is written by Shakespeare as a clever way of showing the audience what might have happened to the lovers. Also‚ a common convention of comedies is mockery‚ so the craftsmen’s play could be interpreted as a way of mocking the foolish behaviour of the four lovers. Another classic convention of comedy is forbidden love. In both ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ there
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An Analytical Review of the Positive and Negative Effects of Racial and Ethnic Humor Humour has been a subject of intellectual discussion for thousands of years dating back to the days of Aristotle in ancient Greece. It has been used to tell stories‚ entertain‚ express one’s perspective and in some cases humour is used in an offensive or insulting way. With the increasing amount of globalization the debate of whether racial and ethnic humour is harmful or beneficial to modern day society has become
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