Romeo and Juliet: Love and Hate-Comedy or Tragedy? For a love story‚ Romeo and Juliet has more violence and bloodshed than most TV mini- series. The play begins with a riot‚ ends with a double suicide‚ and in between has three murders. And all this takes place in the span of four short days. Of course‚ when you’re dealing with love and passion‚ you’re operating on an different level. The funny thing is that both of these terms fall in the same category. It is common for love
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“Comedy is characterised by a happy ending.” In light of this‚ how far is the ending of “Twelfth Night” satisfactory for a comedy? Make close reference to Act 5 in your answer. “The world is a tragedy to those who feel‚ but a comedy to those who think.” - Horace Walpole (1717 – 1797) Walpole’s quote is construed by many critics to mean that a comedy cannot be characterised‚ as its interpretation can differ amongst individuals. Many people would say “Twelfth Night” meets the expectations
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The inception of Dante Alighieri’s trilogy‚ “The Divine Comedy‚” stirred thoughts and emotions in thousands of readers over the last hundreds of years. One aspect that makes this book so revered is the fact that each individual reader gains a different‚ and varied‚ interpretation of Dante’s work. Consequently‚ a wide spectrum of depictions‚ stemming from readers’ provoked feelings‚ now exist through artist’s visual representations of this book. A great example would be Ary Scheffer and Gustave Dore’s
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Hermia and Lysander try to sneak away from Athens to run away together‚ behind Egeus’s back. Also‚ Titania and the young lovers have no idea they’ve been drugged by Oberon and his magic love juice. Mistaken identity In most of Shakespeare’s other comedies‚ someone usually runs around in a disguise to mask his or her identity. This isn’t necessarily the case in A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ unless we count the fact that the love juice causes Titania to fall head over heels in love with an "ass." In other
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Dark humour Like the place itself‚ African humour is a berserk mix of people‚ languages‚ cultures‚ irony and contradiction. There is very little sensitivity in African comedy. But there is something refreshing in being politically incorrect and irreverent‚ saying without thinking and not reducing reality to a string of empty euphemisms. Do not speak of a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby. Zulu Proverb When you take a squirrel out of water‚ it contrives a plot against you Duala Proverb
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Although most people would think of refrigerating ketchup and mustard not important‚ Dave believes that is the most important thing he has learned. Dave Barry teaches his grandson life’s lessons-beginning with the ketchup‚ the high comedy letter‚ by Dave Barry‚ the author uses comedy in the form of of being witty‚ situational irony‚ and sarcasm‚ furthermore narrator drives home the idea through humorous situations of living right and to be happy in life. To amuse the audience reading‚ Dave uses sarcasm that
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Dante’s Influence in “The Divine Comedy” In Dante’s “The Divine Comedy‚” he writes a seemingly theological oriented story‚ but as author Joan M. Ferrante says in his book‚ The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy‚ “This poem is not so much a manual to prepare the soul for heaven‚ a moral guide for a general audience‚ as it is a polemic preaching the needs for improvement on earth in the running of religious and secular affairs‚ to those who can bring them about” (Ferrante 39). During the time
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<center><b>To what extent did Kafka use comedy/irony to develop his tragic‚ cynical view of society and family?</b></center><br><br>Gregor Samsa‚ a young traveling salesman who lives with and financially supports his parents and younger sister‚ Grete‚ wakes up one morning to find "himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin" or insect. At first‚ to my surprise‚ he is preoccupied with practical‚ everyday concerns: How to get out of bed and walk with his numerous legs? Can he still make it to
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AS YOU LIKE IT As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the First Folio‚ 1623. The play’s first performance is uncertain‚ though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle’s court‚ accompanied by her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester‚ to find safety and eventually love in the Forest
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In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare incorporates Insult comedy into his play. Insult comedy is the use of insults at the expense of another character to create comedy. The use of this comedy is in many of the acts and an example of this would be in act 3‚ scene 3‚ when Lysander is talking to Hermia after he is made to love Helena no longer loving Hermia he and he says : “Get gone you dwarf You minimus‚ of hindering knot-grass made; You bead‚ you acorn. Shakespeare’s use of this comment
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