To what extent is the humour in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest dependent upon ridiculing Victorian attitudes to marriage and respectability? Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ opened in the West End of London in February 1894 during an era when many of the religious‚ social‚ political‚ and economic structures were experiencing change — The Victorian Age. Wilde’s genre of choice was the Victorian melodrama‚ or “sentimental comedy” which expresses an important message; lying
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right to die. In this essay I am going to explain how Brian Clark makes the play an effective one which deals with the subject of euthinasia. In this paragraph I am going to explain that Brian Clark uses humour to make the play effective. An example of humour would be black humour; this is humour about subjects which some people might find offensive such as death. Another example would be an innuendo‚ a word or phrase open to two interpretations one of which is usually indecent. One more is a pun;
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instrument in a corneal transplant surgery. Early medicine for Greeks and Romans: Hippocrates: Born 470 BCE ‘Father of Modern Medicine’ He had a theory of the 4 humours. He thought that the human body contained 4 important liquids called humours. They thought if the humours became unbalanced then people would become ill. The 4 humours were black bile‚ yellow bile blood and phlegm. His theory was wrong but it was a breakthrough in medicine because it made people think that illness was caused by
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and techniques used by a composer to engage us in the situation and thus transport us to a particular time and place. Henry Lawson makes this obvious in the text‚ The Loaded Dog through creating relatable‚ distinctively visual images of mateship and humour to help us understand the need for distractions to endure the harsh Australian outback. Lawson uses more severe images in The Drovers Wife to paint a picture of the struggle to survive in the isolated Australian Bush. Conversely‚ Picasso’s Guernica
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” 3 These insightful quotes illustrate the characteristics and heroic qualities of an ANZAC‚ Private 202‚ John Simpson Kirkpatrick (1892-1915). Simpson displayed many heroic qualities. Of these‚ the most defining can be narrowed down to bravery‚ humour and sacrifice. In Australia the ANZAC legend has been personified by one man; John Simpson Kirkpatrick‚ A.K.A ‘the man with the donkey’. Simpson arrived at Gallipoli on the 25th of April‚ 1915‚ with the rest of the ANZAC contingent. He was only at
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In A Village Cricket Match A.G. Macdonell has used humour as the main ingredient of the story. Substantiate your answer with instances from the text. Ans: The story ‘A Village Cricket Match’ by A.G. Macdonell is replete with humour and this is very subtle. In fact‚ the humour is clothed in the garb of seriousness but in spite of that‚ the reader appreciates it and cannot help but smile while going through the lines. The first instance of humour is found in the incident of the negotiations between
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To what extent does confusion and disguise contribute to dramatic comedy in Twelfth Night? Twelfth Night in set in an era of dramatic comedy under going changes‚ certain themes that used to perfectly acceptable although controversial was now seen to be distasteful and often looked down upon‚ this was due to the emergence(or rather acknowledgment) of two very different types of comedy: old comedy and new comedy‚ although neither were genre had a very high status in theatre compared to tragedies
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To what extent does ‘Waiting for Godot’ challenge the conventions of its genre? ‘Waiting for Godot’ by Samuel Beckett largely ignores the standard conventions of theatre. To challenge these conventions Beckett utilises a circular plot‚ provides only obscure hints to where and when the play is set‚ breaks the fourth wall all too regularly and explores themes that were previously obscured from mainstream theatre. A key difference between Beckett’s text and others of its genre is its use of a circular
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childish humour to the story. The next example of a slightly less idiotic humour was concerning Jocasta’s red scarf; throughout the play she had it around her neck‚ and once‚ while walking up the stairs Teiresias stepped on it. So‚ at first the queen uttered only a cry‚ and then by making a drama out of it‚ as if the scarf had literally chocked her to death‚ she exclaimed‚ ‘All day long this scarf is strangling me...‚’ and one day ‘it will be the death of me’. Another example of a silly humour is
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bravery the Australian soldiers demonstrated when facing dangerous threats to defend Tobruk. The Australian troops adopted the nickname‚ “Rats of Tobruk‚” with pride as they were determined to keep fighting against all odds. Along with their Australian humour used as a method to
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