Introduction Comedy is a form of entertainment that brings laughter and uses wit and humor. Comedy is a performed humor which covers scripted or improvised dialogue done by a group‚ duo or in solo; in any medium; television‚ radio or theatre. Plato asserts that comedy is a mixture of pleasure and pain causing laughter at the ridiculous situations of those who are ignorant of their own weaknesses. For Plato‚ comedy is destructive; it is ‘dark‚’ (Aichele‚ 1980). On the other hand‚ for Aristotle‚ comedy
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soft and smooth pebbles scatter themselves around the fascinating beach. Further down‚ the debris lay around on the outstretched sandy beach as though it had been thrown over somebody’s shoulder in disdain; it lay hopelessly‚ waiting for someone’s love to spill. It lay‚ waiting for someone to reach their aching souls. It was the skeleton of what had once been beautiful‚ together; it was the skeleton of life. The cerulean blue‚ crystal clear‚ lukewarm water brings a feeling of serenity and peacefulness
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In Breathless the story is told through random events and references. It could be described as a story about nothing‚ with no beginning and no end‚ " I want to be immortal‚ and then die.’ The plot and the characters are ambiguous little is described about them and there is no general linear direction. Pieces of the puzzle are shown through different media throughout the film rather than through event and action. Jean Luc Goddard’s Breathless breaks away from conventions of narrative through the films
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Good morning. How are you? It’s been great‚ hasn’t it? I’ve been blown away by the whole thing. In fact‚ I’m leaving. (Laughter) There have been three themes‚ haven’t there‚ running through the conference‚ which are relevant to what I want to talk about. One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity in all of the presentations that we’ve had and in all of the people here. Just the variety of it and the range of it. The second is that it’s put us in a place where we have no idea what’s going
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something. However‚ Mr. Barnet ignored T.J’s lists and went to another customer. This ignorance made Casey angry. I was hot. I had been as nice as I could be to him and there he was talking like this. “ we been waiting on you for near an hour‚” I hissed‚ “while you’round here waiting on everybody else. And it ain’t fair. You got no right-“ The way Casey angry is how she expresses her rebellion towards white‚ because she has been treated unfair among other customer. It was one of the way how colonized
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significant people in Montag’s life‚ Mildred is cold and tries to shut out Montag‚ while Clarisse welcomes his presence. After getting to know Clarisse for the first time‚ Montag is shocked at the bond he had with her‚ such that “she almost seemed to be waiting for [him] Fei 2 there...so
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old adage claims that laughter is the best medicine to cure human ailments. Although this treatment might sound somewhat unorthodox‚ its value as a remedy can be traced back to ancient times when Hypocrites‚ in his medical treatise‚ stressed the importance of “a gay and cheerful mood on the part of the physician and patient fighting disease” (Bakhtin 67). Aristotle viewed laughter as man’s quintessential privilege: “Of all living creatures only man is endowed with laughter” (Bakhtin 68). In the
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210 THE RETURN OF THE ANTI-HERO English Literature from the 1950s onwards A very definite new trend in English Literature‚ in novels and especially in plays ‚ began to emerge from the 1950s onwards. This was the return of the “anti-hero”‚ and was to become the dominant feature of writing through the 1950s to the 1970s. In order to examine exactly what an “Anti-Hero” is‚ it is necessary to look back on what had gone before. The Hero in World Literature The literature of all countries at all
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He replied something like this: “all the knowledge in this level are like this. It’s may not seem very deep and intriguing to me. However‚ let a hundred people read this book. They will all interpret differently. It is as if an exotic ingredient waiting to be made into some ridiculously complex dishes. Each chef will make them differently. Depending on the chefs’ expertise. That is why it the knowledge has been used in the business field for decades. To a common people they may think “hey‚ I could
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1970. Choose a character from a novel or play of recognized literary merit and write an essay in which you (a) briefly describe the standards of the fictional society in which the character exists and (b) show how the character is affected by and responds to those standards. In your essay do not merely summarize the plot. 1970 Also. Choose a work of recognized literary merit in which a specific inanimate object (e.g.‚ a seashell‚ a handkerchief‚ a painting) is important‚ and write an essay in which
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