Humour

gags, absurdity and black humour, The Simpsons develops and enhances brilliant and distinct characters in order to create the fascinating and hilarious satire. Therefore, The Simpsons successfully points out the social issues while making the audience laughing at the ridiculous characters, as well as leading the audience to question themselves. In the episode ‘Mypods and Boomsticks’, first aired in November 30, 2008, consists of three…

Effective satire leaves the responder with a sense that some change needs to occur either to prevent situations recurring or to change current behaviour / actions. The use of absurdity and humour to discuss and expose specific problems makes satire engaging and persuasive in a way that a direct statement, is not, thus promoting and recognising the need for reform. “Animal Farm” (1945), Orwell’s allegorical critique of the Russian Revolution, reveals the innate malevolence of mankind through…

There exists a continuous cycle of manipulation and domination within the relationship between the people and their representative governments, as one continuously changes the other to suit their needs and desires. Composers also contribute to the cycle of suppression through manipulation of language and linguistic devices to exemplify their views. Such ideas are closely explored in WH Auden’s poems, “In Memory of WB Yeats’ (1939) and ‘September 1st 1939’ (1939), as well as the short, animated…

There many things that can be said about the concept of true friendship and brotherhood. Quotes such as “never make a companion equal to a brother” and “true love is rare, but friendship is rarer”, depict the idea that these two concepts are infrequent and scarce. The main characters in Shakespeare’s renowned play, Romeo and Juliet, are seen to abide by these two concepts, having laid down their lives for each other, resulting in death and tragedy. Considering the language used by Shakespeare,…

Adams uses humour to comment on topical issues throughout the whole novel, and in this instance the subjects that he is providing commentary on could be termed human nature, gullibility and corruption. These are but a few subjects that I feel the passage was connected…

characters suicidal thoughts and focuses on how their general depressed feelings are to be dealt with. In doing this Hornby begins to focus more and more on the humorous aspects of the characters’ suicidal feelings. The dichotomy created by extracting humour from a bleak theme is common in Hornby 's work and helps to bring further contrast with Sexton and Plath. Hornby manages to create amusing situations however in more ways than making light of the characters’ dilemma . Mars-Jones believes…

These techniques include humour, rhetorical questions, role play and exaggeration. The pads commercial is able to lure their customers into buying the product by asking the viewers questions on a blank slide and by using exaggeration when people begin to pay out girls which makes…

The prefrontal cortex is located in the frontal lobe of the brain and can be subdivided into different regions such as the orbitofrontal cortex and the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. These areas as a whole are responsible for decision making, controlling emotions and other key social skills, they are also important for dealing with executive functions such as reasoning and planning. Mitchell (2014) claims that ‘the prefrontal cortex represents the pinnacle of evolution as it handles some…

Symbolism: The T-shirt I made was showing Piggy’s role in the Island and in the first page I have shown the glasses of Piggy’s which represents his intelligence and his motivation to the civilization with every children on the Island. The color blue represents intelligence and his good thoughts. b) Characterization: The shirt is targeting the audience by saying “Your voice starts here” targeting audience by saying stand up, and look at the thoughts of Piggy in which he says “How lucky it is…

The Graduate (1967) is the pioneer for the modern Hollywood film, which is cooperated by the director Mike Nichols, the composer Paul Simon and Dave Grusin. It has developed new conventions for presenting song in film, conventions that ‘build upon traditions established by the “classical” Hollywood musicals of the studio era’ (Berliner, 2002). The American popular rural folk in 1950s created the old classical song "the Sound of Silence", and it aids The Graduate (1967) to achieve a magnificence…