Neil Simon Relationship Essay

Literature is the vital record of what men have seen in life, what relationships they have experienced and what they have thought and felt about those human relationships that have the most immediate and enduring interest for all of us. Man is a social animal and in his relationships he can never be fully satisfied. Man’s satisfaction in his relationships never comes during his life and literature mirrors this irony of relationships. In the present paper, I will scrutinize the comic prowess of
Pulitzer Prize-winning comic playwright Neil Simon who uses humour as a ‘relief mechanism’ to grapple with the pain, dissatisfaction, burden and the routine boredom of relationships. His plays expose human weaknesses and make people laugh at themselves. He uses innovative comic techniques …show more content…
His portrayal of individual angst and dysfunctional family relationships has been relieving audiences of their anxieties, fears and worries by making them laugh at their own foibles. In his study of human relationships, Simon keeps peeling away layers of psychological insight. The physical behaviour of his characters gets surfaced in their clownish physical behaviour. His aim is to purge the audience of the hardships of practical existence. His fans nicknamed him 'doc' because he relieves pain through laughter just as a doctor relieves pain through medicine.
Born in 1927, Marvin Neil Simon was the son of a
Jewish fabric salesman who found it hard to express love for his wife and children. He has experienced a somewhat shaky personal life, but he has found that this only adds to the texture of his work. Desperate for the affection that his father with held, the selfconscious young Simon found a substitute of sorts by teaming up with his older brother Danny to write gags for stand up comics and, later on, sketches for the Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” and