’A comedy then is a problem-solving story‚ ending in resolution and order and normally symbolised by marriage.’ How far would you agree with this statement when looking at Act 5 in ’Twelfth Night’? Shakespeare’s comedy ’Twelfth Night’ is mainly comedic due to the dramatic irony which is consistent throughout the play due to Viola‚ Sebastian’s twin‚ pretending to be a man named Cesario. This is evident in Act 1 Scene 4 when Orsino is praising Cesario for how much of a woman ’he’ looks. ’Diana’s
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Many definitions of comedy claim that at the end of the play a happy conclusion will have emerged. How far do you think Educating Rita has a happy conclusion? Educating Rita is a play by Willie Russell‚ set in 1983. It is a semi-autobiographical play about Rita‚ a young working class Liverpool hairdresser who decides wants to gain an education using an Open University. Her tutor is the disillusioned and alcoholic Frank‚ who teaches at the Open University to pay for his drinking habits. Rita decides
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Educating Rita True comedy explores themes as serious and important as appear in any tragedy. Demonstrate to what extent Educating Rita contains serious and important themes as well as being a comic play. Willy Russell’s play entitled ‘Educating Rita’ is a dark and comic drama set within the confines of a University classroom. The play features two characters‚ Frank a troubled lecturer who has grown disillusioned with his existence‚ and Rita‚ a working class Liverpudlian with a thirst for
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The fragmented‚ repetitive and obscure use of dialogue by the two derelict protagonists‚ Vladimir and Estragon‚ in Beckett’s existentialist drama‚ ‘Waiting for Godot’ is often not deemed as significant or as engaging as the action of the protagonists within this comedic play. As such‚ it becomes clear throughout the play that the repetitive action engages the audience through frustration due to its inconclusive and relentless nature that contributes to the meaninglessness of the play. This offers
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Study Guide for The Educated Imagination Northrop Frye (1912-1991) read his Massey Lectures over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC radio) in 1962. First published by Indiana University Press in 1964‚ the six lectures present key concepts from Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton University Press‚ 1957). Chapter One. “The Motive for Metaphor.” Frye begins by exploring the relation of language and literature. “What is the relation of English as the mother tongue to English
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Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye‚ Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott‚ and The Republic by Plato‚ it is evident which author has created the most effective argument. The authors’ goals were to use content and techniques to assess the value of literature in a society. Northrop Frye created the most effective argument of the three in his work of literature‚ The Educated Imagination. Unlike Plato‚ Northrop Frye created an argument in favor of literature’s effect on society. Northrop Frye creates the greatest
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unlikelihood of the occurrence of an event will happen. Jackson’s manipulation of his story‚ The Lottery‚ provides an unexpected twist to what one may seem to be a normal subject. Northrop Frye’s The Singing School‚ suggests that all stories are told in either one of four ways: Comedy‚ Romance‚ Tragedy or Satire/Irony (Frye 18). The use of Irony and its conventional associations eludes the reader from interpreting a story as a Romance‚ but instead give the reader a reversed twist. This use of ironic
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Teya Hutchison 1802 “In conventional comedies the green world is a place of refuge. How far would you say that Rooster’s Wood‚ by contrast‚ is a place full of danger‚ violence and cruelty?” Northrop Frye has argued that the ‘green world’ of comedy operates as a temporary place of freedom from a dangerous outside world. For Johnny Byron‚ his woodland kingdom represents liberty and release from the restrictions of an over-inhibited and conformist ‘real world’‚ but this lack of respect for civilisation
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Critic Northrop Frye once commented that "Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscapes" (Frye 1). Few characters illustrate this characteristic of a tragic hero better than that of Victors Frankenstein‚ the protagonist of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. His story is one of a brilliant man whose revolutionary ideas brought suffering to himself‚ his family and friends‚ and his creation. Victor is an instrument as well as a victim to this suffering throughout his story. From
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“Much of the comedy arises from the fact that Wilde creates female characters who refuse to conform to stereotypes” to what extent do you agree with this statement on “The Importance of being Earnest”? The stereotypical view of the woman in late Victorian London was that they were to be married to who their parents decided they’d be married to‚ and not have an opinion on the matter that differed from their parent’s. This expected behaviour was not what was displayed by such female characters in Oscar
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