Jester

Well where do I begin Carnival Masks go way back and it started in the mid 1979 where they used to wear masks to celebrate a tradition of making carnival masks which started in the mid 1268 then which became a day to do a carnival and celebrate so that is why the people of venice italy just like we celebrate the day of the people the fought and died for our country but im getting way ahead of myself we are talking about carnival masks so carnival masks can have anything you want to put on it…

After several not-so-clandestine glances at the main entrance, I finally spotted her infamous bright orange beanie bobbing its way through the crowd toward me. I waved and caught her eye, and she smiled at my little "freeze" dance. Katy--always the jester--began to grotesquely limp her way to me. At her atrocious impersonation of a decrepit old lady, I went into paroxysms of laughter, eliciting a round of ferocious snorts from Katy. At the familiar amiability, I briefly forgot the cold and ran…

In Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare three stories are combined to make a comedy. One of these includes Oberon, king of the faries, has a jester named Puck. First introduced in Act 2, Scene 1, Puck loves to play tricks on people for laughter and fun. ”Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me; Then slip I from her bum, down topples she”(II.52-3). Puck turns into a stool and when she is sitting on it, he moves away and she falls. Later, Nick Bottom’s head was changed into a asses…

difficult to include comedy. Often a few key characters are used as tools in the deliverance of humor. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream the two key gateways used to integrate humor are Nick Bottom, the weaver and Robin “Puck” Goodfellow, the fairy king’s jester and well known trickster. The two characters share minimal similarities outside of arising laughter from the audience, however they are both key elements of the play. We are first introduced to Bottom on the second line of Act I, Scene…

who nurses an unrequited love for him and is Hermia's friend. Then meanwhile in the woods, the fairy queen, Titania and her husband, Oberon, are have a quarrel over a page boy. Oberon has a plans to make his wife agree to hand the boy by making his jester, Puck, put juice from Lore in Idleness. But, taking pity on the love quadrangle Puck the liquid into the eyes of the four, which creates a hilarious misunderstanding among the young lovers.…

During both The Middle Ages and the Renaissance scarce music was developed. The purpose of scarce music is to “inspire the faithful to worship.” All of the music was written in Latin and placed into part books. A small amount of women viewed themselves as professional musicians during these two time periods. Both eras developed instrumental genres for dance music. Instruments are categorized into two sections bas and haut. A bas instrument throughout these eras was a recorder. The opposite of…

Although "The Cask of Amontillado" avoids one of the stamps of the Gothic, a ghostlike occurrence or agent in the story, Poe includes enough Gothic elements to put this story squarely in that tradition. A staple Gothic element is the setting, which is usually a run-down, mysterious castle, monastery or chateau. In this case, the setting is underground in the Montresor catacombs underneath Montresor's chateau--a damp, claustrophobic passageway, dripping with nitre from its proximity to a water…

Poe, is a short story told by a man named Montresor who seeks revenge on Fortunato, for insulting him years ago. Montresor runs into Fortunato at a carnival, and lures him into his catacomb by mentioning Amontillado, a fine wine. Fortunato plays a jester at the carnival, having no clue of his fate with Montresor. Poe sets the majority of the story in the catacombs, and the central idea is revenge. Poe portrays the central idea of revenge with the narrator, Montresor. When Montresor talks to…

The author goes about the task of giving us some of Shakespeare’s history before examining his writing style. He was born into a family in which his father’s work with the local government gave him access to the local free grammar school. Years later, he would marry Anne Hathaway and have three children. His writing gained him some prominence in the writing community. His main work was with the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a prominent acting company. He was also part shareholder in the company…

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” tells the journey of Fortunato, a blubbering drunk dressed as a jester, and Montresor, a man craving retribution. Montresor’s revenge comes to sweep life from under Fortunato’s feet in the form of a brick wall. In what begins as a lively venture to find a Cask of Amontillado, a delicious wine, quickly changes to a purely evil plot. Poe uses Montresor’s vision of the future and Fortunato’s blindness to the situation to create the theme of…