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    The comedy of Manners emerged during the age of Dryden‚ the age of Restoration. Therefore it is also called Restoration Comedy. “The Restoration comedy of manners reached its fullest expression in The Way of the World (1700) by William Congreve‚ which is dominated by a brilliantly witty couple.” This sort of comedy is called comedy of manners for the writers in the restoration theatre have shown the ‘manners’ and ‘morals’ of the ways of life of the higher class aristocratic fashionable society‚ however

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    Something Worth

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    notice if Gertrude could not take her. Ivan did not offer Gertrude any money for the journey‚ but at the end of the first month‚ told her that he would give her $85 for the inconvenience of calling by his house early in the morning. Jeremiah is Gertrude’s younger brother and he promises to keep the car clean and mechanically sound if she will give him a lift to school each day. Ivan fails to pay anything and Jeremiah never does clean or maintain the car Gertrude has to pay $40 a month for cleaning

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    LYSISTRATA‚ a comedy of stereotypes The playwright Aristophanes wrote about an ancient Greece‚ Athens in particular‚ during a time of constant warfare. His play "Lysistrata" is an attempt to amuse while putting across an anti-war message. In fact even the naming of the play is an anti-war message of sorts. The word "lysistrata" means‚ "disband the army" (Jacobus 162). Aristophanes was a crafty writer; he creates a work of art that causes his audience to think about the current state of affairs

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    Comedy in Educating Rita

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    Aristotle said that comedy is ‘’an imitation of inferior people’’. How far do you think that this applies to the character of Rita in the play ‘Educating Rita’? Educating Rita is a play that uses the colloquialism of the main protagonist‚ Rita‚ to create the comedy element for the audience when she is being tutored by Frank‚ an untypical university lecturer who works in the setting of 1980’s northern England. In interpreting the characteristics of Rita‚ it can be identified that comedy is indeed an imitation

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    The Divine Comedy summary

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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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    Comedy comparison

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    feminine in some situations. Modern Family also challenges the stereotype of gay men not being able to stay in long-lasting committed relationships through Cameron and Mitchell. Although they are often bickering with each other or not agreeing on something‚ there commitment is never questioned. Cameron and Mitchell are very supportive of each other. Probably the biggest way Modern Family challenges the gay stereotype is through the adoption of Lily. Our society does not see men as maternal people who

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    Memories will never fade. A lot of people in today’s generation are easily embarrassed. Sensitivity can be the reason why‚ or it can just be one did something very stupid. Some people just don’t seem to get embarrassed because they just see the funny side to it. I was asked to write about a funny moment I have experienced while being on the Bar-Ilan one-year program. When I think about it‚ I definitely have a sense of humor‚ however‚ I have an inner feeling that lacks satisfaction. Satisfaction

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    Something good

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    The Color Purple questions the notions of gender. In the article “Feminism” Carolyn Perry states that “Feminism differs from the women’s movement in that it moves beyond the political and economic issues at heart of the women’s movement…‚ such as tearing down the hierarchical structure of sex and gender roles and changing the way people view men‚ women‚ and gender”(255). She believed that it wasn’t a thing as “a women’s place” (255). In The Color Purple Alice Walker shows us that women can overcome

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    IDK something

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    A1: Language of a Public Figure (i) A study of Barack Obama Plan: Intro: Introduce the subject of your essay Explain the context of your transcripts; Briefly summarise the similarities and differences Section 1-Rapport How does Obama establish Rapport Compare the two transcripts Evaluate success Section 2-Structure How does Obama use structure Compare the two transcripts Evaluate success Section 3-Language How does Obama use language techniques for effect. Compare the two transcripts

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    Comedy in Don Quixote

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    Q.2 Wherein lies the comedy in part one of Don Quixote? The story Don Quixote is a burlesque‚ mock epic of the romances of chivalry‚ in which Cervantes teaches the reader the truth by creating laughter that ridicules. Through the protagonist‚ he succeeds in satirizing Spain’s obsession with the noble knights as being absurdly old fashioned. The dynamics of the comedy in this story are simple‚ Don Quixote believes the romances he has read and strives to live them out‚ and it is his actions and

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