Max Vasquez February 25‚ 2014 Tough Guys/Tough Towns Elements of a “Tough Guy” Novel Being a tough guy is not an easy job. There are unique and brute characteristics that are expected to come with any “tough guy” image. A tough guy needs to be daring and adventurous‚ have a mysterious persona‚ and of course have the ability to not only start fights‚ but also finish them. Aside from the tough guy’s visceral features‚ not all of them are heroes‚ or even good people at all. However‚ there is one
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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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Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” is a trilogy of poems describing three realms of the afterlife. Each of the three books in “The Divine Comedy” symbolize an afterlife station‚ “Inferno” representing hell‚ “Purgatorio” representing purgatory and “Parasido” representing paradise. The story is told in the first person‚ and is originally written in Italian‚ the language of the masses. This was unusual as most literary works of the time were written in Latin‚ a language not easily read by the common person
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Question 1.The Merchant of Venice: A Romantic Comedy From Insights‚ 1992 The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies‚ probably written in 1596 and 1597‚ and forms one of a group of such comedies‚ along with The Two Gentlemen of Verona‚ As You Like It‚ andTwelfth Night. Romantic comedy was a popular and much-preferred type in Elizabethan theatre‚ and all the trappings of such are present in The Merchant of Venice. First‚ the romantic involvement is represented not by one couple
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Keys to a successful comedy Comedy has many points that make it into a comedy‚ it is what take a good comedy and turns it into a great one. However‚ out of the many pieces there is these few are some of the most used or ones that you notice the most when seeing or reading a good comedy. The first piece is Complex. This part defines the main character‚ and he or she will mostly have a messier life‚ he or she also has plenty of twists and turns in their life that keeps the audience guessing. A twist
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The first scene begins in the forest with Rosalind and Jaques. He tells Rosalind the he prefers to be sad because that’s how he views the world. Rosalind tells him she rather be with someone that’s happy then travel and be depressed. Orlando shows up an hour late to meet with Rosalind who is still disguised as Ganymede. She tells him he isn’t in love with Rosalind if not he wouldn’t have been late. Orlando says if Rosalind rejects his love then he would most likely die. Rosalind and Orlando then
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Shakespearean Comedy - Essay In the Shakespearean comedy “The Taming of the Shrew”‚ William Shakespeare cleverly uses the techniques; Satire‚ Caricatures‚ Wit and Irony to create humour. “The Simpsons” & “The Big Bang Theory” are television shows that also engage the audiences with the same comedic techniques. The comedic technique satire is used in comedies to make fun and criticize the stupidity and weakness of individuals. In the Shakespeare’s comedy ‘The Taming of the Shrew’
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Iago rewrites Othello: “A play that begins as a romantic comedy‚ but which ends as a tragedy” Evaluate the relationship between tragedy and comedy in light of this comment” Written in 1604‚ Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most highly concentrated‚ tightly constructed tragedies‚ with no subplots and little humor to relieve the tension. Although he adapted the plot of his play from the sixteenth-century‚ Italian dramatist and novelist Giraldi Cinthio’s Gli Hecatommithi‚ Shakespeare related almost
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heading‚ because he believes that this journey is one that every individual undertakes so as to understand his or her sins and find his or her peace with God. 2. . through me you enter into the city of woes through me you enter into eternal pain‚ through me you enter the population of loss. . . . abandon all hope‚ you who enter here. Dante reads these lines‚ which he finds inscribed on the Gate of Hell‚ as he and Virgil pass into the Ante-Inferno before the river Acheron in Canto III (III
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sons‚ like Orlando‚ get zilch. Not only did Orlando get shafted in his dad’s will‚ he is also treated like dirt by his older brother‚ Oliver‚ who is supposed to be taking care of him: My father charged you in his will to give me good education: you have trained me like a peasant‚ obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities. He resents the harsh treatment he receives at Oliver’s hands and complains that Oliver neglects to educate him; Orlando feels that he is being kept like livestock
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