Spring 2011 THE COMIC SPIRIT CWL 320I-01 (#4996) MW 800-915am (MM-100) Course Description The Comic Spirit is intended to serve as an interdisciplinary introduction to the theory of comedy and history of comic forms. Literary works of various types‚ national literary traditions‚ and historical periods will be considered‚ as will other kinds of comic art‚ especially that of modern film. In all cases‚ particular emphasis will be given to the historical circumstance and the intellectual
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“Belonging fulfils our emotional needs” Belonging may fulfil our emotional needs‚ it has the ability to decide or alters one’s mind‚ and it may provide us the joy that we need from a sense of acceptance or the unpreventable discomfort from isolation. Belonging is shaped within the personal experience; it has the power to change us‚ emotionally and physically. Texts show us the importance of belonging as they explore the many aspects‚ including the potential to enrich or challenge a belief. This
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in Waiting for Godot. Who is Godot ? Why are they waiting for him? 9) A Clockwork Orange from a Marxist perspective. Which society is Burgess satirizing: the communist or the capitalist one? Why? 10) The question of identity in post-modern writings. Define post-modern identity as understood from one of the texts you have read (The Magus‚ Lord of the Flies‚ Waiting for Godot or A Clockwork Orange) You shall answer to two of these questions and then apply an approach
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A writer has various reasons of portraying social groups in different ways. Firstly it gives structure to a text. It divides the characters and can give the audience a particular tone and mood for one group and totally different tone and mood for another. In this way the audience gets exactly the “right” and “wrong” feeling which the writer wants. Of course this is not only to divide good and bad‚ but could also be used to show the difference in classes or status. E.g. a governing groups versus slaves
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little machine capable only of good” (Burgess 115). The power of choice distinguishes humans from machines. In the novel‚ a ‘clockwork orange’ is used to describe what would become of us if we were taken away from our choices. Goodness should be out of choice. Choice is what makes us human‚ and without it we would become something like a machine‚ something as unnatural as a clockwork
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paradoxes. Society uses opposites that help us define the meaning of values and attributes that are acceptable. Could we know what is desired without knowing what is unwanted‚ recognize hatred without love or good without evil? In the novel A Clockwork Orange‚ our humble narrator Alex‚ is a teenager in a futuristic city where citizens are controlled by a corrupt‚ authoritarian government. Adult society seems to have been brainwashed into a trance as their free will is stifled. Alex is at odds with
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reject the majority through acts of defiance‚ self-alienation and rebellion. This notion is extensively explored within Peter Skrzynecki’s poem‚ St. Patrick’s College‚ from the anthology Immigrant Chronicle‚ and Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film A Clockwork Orange as both texts illustrate the protagonist’s limited experience of belonging through their interaction with others leading to their acts of defiance. Conversely‚ Peter Skrzynecki’s poem‚10 Mary Street- also from the anthology Immigrant Chronicle-explores
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The Pearl John Steinbeck‚ Of Mice and Men Mordechai Richler‚ The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Toni Morrison‚ The Bluest Eye Utopia/Direction of the Future Children of Men The Road Aldous Huxley‚ Brave New World Anthony Burgess‚ A Clockwork Orange Cormac McCarthy‚ The Road George Orwell‚ 1984 Margaret Atwood‚ Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood‚ A Handmaid’s Tale Ray Bradbury‚ Fahrenheit 451 Journey Motif Rain Man Motorcycle Diaries A. Manette Ansay‚ Vingear Hill Arundhati Roy
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is heard in a broken English accent saying statements such as “Me so horny” and “Me love you long time.” The scene continues as the men try to negotiate the cheapest price possible for sexual favors from the female. As for Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange (1971)‚ his representation of females is still one of inferiority in comparison to the male characters. The majority of the time we see a female in the film‚ they are being raped by several men. For example‚ a scene towards the beginning of the
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an adult? For many the right answer is that it has nothing to do with age; it is determined by the behaviour. In this essay I will not go into the issue of when a child turns into an adult but rather think about how the issue is treated in "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess‚ "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger and "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby. From the point of view of growing up‚ the novels are quite similar. They are all from the point of view of the youngster‚ and we don’t really
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