Black comedy

Comedy can be created with varying methods. In both Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the characters carry on with regular social engagements without knowledge; that is only available to the audience, relevant to the play. Both stories, effectively, use dramatic irony in a similar fashion to create humour. Through the conversations involving mistaken identity, foolish behaviour caused by the unfavourable situations, and dishonesty in love,…

What is humor? Humor can be someone or something that is funny. What is funny can depend on someone’s sense of humor. Humor can be offensive at times by hurting one’s religion, race, sex, and other things to laugh at the expense of others. Despite that there are many television programs and cartoons that make funs of people being in a certain kind of group. Has society fallen so low that we like to hurt each other’s feelings? Bottom line is there are many different types of humor like flavors of…

Grace entered the Oval Office, Karen was sitting in the couch with a strange position. This happened because the writers and directors intentionally to humiliate Kellyanne Conway’s, Trump’s administrative councilor, way of sitting during meeting with black college leaders (Avila: 2017). In other words, the show criticizes the disrespectful attitude of the Trump’s supporters in real life towards the dark-colored men. Not only just racist, Karen also represents Trump’s rich devotee who are…

Annotated Bibliography: The Importance of Being Earnest Reinert, Otto. "Satiric Strategy in the Importance of Being Earnest." College English 18.1 (1956): 14-18. National Council of Teachers of English. JSTOR, Oct. 1956. Web. 5 July 2015. The main idea in this analysis of Wilde’s satire is to prove that Wilde does not just use satire for the sake of having his play being called a “farce,” rather he uses satirical strategy to enhance the experience of the play and how it differs from “normal”…

with the most perfect music playing through your ear, everything is nice and calm, you don’t have a worry in the world. All of a sudden you are thrown off a huge cliff, which just so happens to be a water fall and before you know it everything goes black. You can still hear the beautiful music playing in your ears. You try your hardest to get above the water, before you know it you think your dead. A huge hand pulls you out of the water, and your eyes slowly open. The company is showing us just…

It’s soon revealed in the play that he only plays the fool so that he can seem all the better when he redeems himself, though Feste’s character in Twelfth Night seems content to let the others continue to believe him a fool, with the exception of Viola who sees through his illusion: “[Feste] is wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well craves a kind of wit” (3.1.59). Viola and Feste’s confrontation magnifies the theme of illusion versus reality that appears in both Hamlet and Henry IV-…

People in today’s society have adopted humor and comedies into their everyday lives, whether it’d be from shows such as Saturday Night Live or from a cartoon column in the newspaper. The success of these humorous selections comes from the entertainment value as well as the sheer value of laughter. Through these positive, light-hearted responses, viewers of humorous programs associate the authors of these comedies with harmless, beneficial motivations. Stephen Colbert relayed his thoughts during…

perspective of comedy. Northrop Frye says that the basic formula is when a young man loves a young woman. They are opposed by an obstacle, most often the woman 's father. Through plot twist they get married. Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy was expressed through gender, love, social ambition, and sex. Comedy is displayed in the play when the characters are drunk and almost about to pass out. They always manage to surprise us with their witty speech. In Northrop Frye’s essay of comedy, love was…

Thank you for considering The University of North Florida as your home for the next four years. The admissions team is very displeased to inform you that there will not be room here for you at our college. After reviewing your essay and application we were all very entertained but doubtful we would ever be able to meet you. My favorite part of your application had to be when you explained why you didn’t do very well in your Spanish three class, “I got a C- in Spanish because yo no hablo…

A common character attribute found Shakespeare’s male protagonists is that of being hotheaded. He uses this characteristic to insert aspects of different genres into the plays. In The Life and Death of King John, the Bastard’s hotheadedness adds a comedic element to an otherwise heavy play. While in Cymbeline, a more comedic play, Posthumus’s hotheadedness creates tragedy. He successfully uses the same characteristic to create two different results. Shakespeare uses hotheadedness in different…