Comedy Critique Goethe’s Faust and Voltaire’s Candide were two of the most interesting books that I have ever read! Both comedies were very different from each other in many ways. The structure of both books varied significantly. I enjoyed Candide more than Faust partially due to the structure. I found that because Faust almost entirely rhymed that it was harder to follow. It was very distracting to me and I felt as if the rhyming took away from the story. Candide was told more like a story and
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Lear and Comedy.... Lear and Comedy. Strangely enough‚ it is G. Wilson Knight‚ a critic famous (not to say notorious) for a vehemently Christian interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays‚ who notes in The Wheel of Fire some of the comedic aspects of King Lear[1]. Whether or not the harsh moral ecology of King Lear fits comfortably with the Christian ethos of forgiveness‚ structural elements of comedy are plainly present in King Lear‚ quite apart from the sardonic humour of the Fool. Indeed‚ a ‘happy
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The Portrayal of Women in The Comedy of Errors Through the centuries‚ women have tried to be equal to men. From their position in the place of work to voting rights‚ women have struggled to gain equal rights. In Shakespeare’s play The Comedy of Errors‚ women are very present. Shakespeare presents two important women: Adriana and Luciana. They are each portrayed differently. Adriana represents the feminist point of view and Luciana‚ the anti-feminist. To begin‚ Adriana is the most present female
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The History of Comedy. From Old Greek to the Present Day What does Comedy mean? In old Greek times comedy was a village festival where people came together and sang‚ there were jesters to entertain the audiences. The Greeks created theatre; comedy soon followed which to the present day is known as ‘old comedy’. Old comedy is seen as very political‚ meaning that the performance
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The Comedy of Hamlet Shakespearean plays are often known for their outstanding entertainment and classic comic conflict. In his masterwork‚ Hamlet‚ Shakespeare uses these aspects to serve his thematic purpose. He has used comedy throughout many of his historic plays‚ but in this play‚ comedy is the drawing point that makes it fun and entertaining‚ yet clear and intuitive. Generally‚ his tragedies are not seen as comical‚ but in reality‚ they are full of humor. However‚ these comic elements don’t
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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 The history and social impact of the Influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 brought awareness and valuable information about how such a disease is spread and the care needed to survive the "flu” but at the cost of over one third of the world population‚ 20-40 million deaths worldwide. The United States accounted for 675‚000 to 1 million of total deaths. This pandemic was known as the "Spanish flu" or "La Grippe" and killed more people in one year then the total number
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Aulularia is a comedic play written by Titus Maccius Plautus during a time when Athens was one of‚ if not the most powerful city-states in all of Europe. For this great society‚ historians use literary works to research and understand what the period was like. Aulularia is great play that can help historians investigate how slaves were‚ through Plautus’ humor you can catch how marriage and pro-creation is done and viewed in Ancient Athens. Titus Maccius Plautus‚ born sometime around 254 B.C.E.
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The first period of the ancient Greek comedy is known as Old Comedy. Out of the forty poets who are named as having illustrated the style of Old Comedy in 460-404 B.C. Aristophanes was one of the chiefs‚ whose works‚ with their political satire of sexual innuendo‚ effectively defines the genre today. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Comedy) Also known as the Father of Comedy and the representative of Old Comedy‚ Aristophanes has been said to have recreated the life of Ancient Athens more convincingly
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100 million people were killed by this flu. Despite the number of deaths and the severity and geographic reach of this disease‚ it merits little attention in the history books. Today one of our greatest medical threats is AIDS. The Spanish Flu is exponential compared to AIDS casualties (Gloria). The Spanish Flu of 1918-19 affected our world like no other disease in history. It changed the ways people sought medical help‚ the ways physicians treated illness‚ the role of medical researchers and how society
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because I was so nervous and I didn’t know what to say. I started to blush in front of her and her friends. That was one of my embarrassing moments of my life! As I walked away slowly away from them‚ I went to open my locker to put my binder away and suddenly all my friends went up to my locker and said‚ “I was wondering if you wanted to come with us to subway.” “I can’t‚ I have to go home
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