Shakespearean comedy

Paper Company, holds his own version of what diversity training should be. The show is a spoof on what life is like in an office in America where a camera crew documents the behaviors that go on in the office. While this show was supposed to be a comedy I actually didn’t think it was particularly funny and took offense to the humor. I learned that even…

This show focused on sexual references and jokes, more than it did friendly humor to make the audience laugh. Even when the jokes were shameful, they were kind of humorous and made the show enjoyable to watch. This shows that today this behavior is found funny and is practiced by teens, too. This is shown by noticing that most of the jokes were sexual, even though there were some that were indeed not sexual. This poses the question: does what actions on TV shows affect the way the society acts…

The short story “Harrison Bergeron is a satire that criticizes and exaggerates a potential shift in society towards egalitarianism and levelling. Satire is holding views, traditions and thoughts to scrutiny through ridicule, irony, exaggeration or humour. The author, Kurt Vonnegut, scoffs the growing tendency to think that capitalism and freedom are wrong (unjust) and that the solution is absolute equality. Satire is generally used with the intent of mocking, shaming or outwitting cultural or…

Irony is a broad term for a literary technique that authors use in stories to convey harsh criticism in a light-hearted way. But it is not only a literary technique, situational irony happens all around us everyday. For example today I saw an ironic sign on the highway. This particular sign said “Don’t Text and Drive” but at the bottom of the sign it said to text a number for more information. Even in history you can even find ironic situations. Right before JFK was shot someone asked him…

consciousness of the society. As societies become more complex, our understanding of the concept of or sense of humor similarly becomes more complex. In recent times, comedy has proven itself to be an extremely popular film genre whose appeal and acceptance spans across nationalities, races and generations throughout the world. Traditionally, comedy involving beautiful blonde white women has sourced its humor from people’s perceived naivety and superficiality of beautiful blonde women. This…

Satire is one of the most powerful tools a writer has in his arsenal. Humor can level an uneven playing field, disarm an opposing argument, expose a jarring fallacy in the logic of an opponent. “A Letter to the Warner Brothers, by Groucho Marx, and “American Autumn”, by Mark Steyn, both demonstrate the wide ranging and potent effect highly developed satire can lend a text in achieving its purpose and reaching its audience. However, when you go beyond the surface value, there is an incredible…

Irony is a figure of speech which describes intended meaning that is different from the real meaning .In simple words; it is a difference between the appearance and the reality... Irony is very important in the literary works because it helps to make a close connection between the reader and the literary work itself. I t is important to make the readers think more and more to understand the events in the literary work and get the messages and themes of the writer. It is often that irony in…

When there is something wrong with society as a whole, the voiceless cannot change anything. Their subtle attempts at retaliation, then, are satire. Satire is the weapon of the powerless, rebelling against the powerful. New ideas and philosophies are always criticizing the old ones in an ever growing system. During the Enlightenment, there was an amazing flourishing of knowledge and free thought. People began to question society’s old ways of thinking. Natural philosophy and the study of human…

classic comedy and adds new male characters, his lack of Lysistrata’s original famous wool metaphor has left the film fall flat. Lee’s views on the importance of the upcoming presidential are just lost in translation. In ancient Greece, the point of comedy was to empower and serve as ‘parrhesia’ or free speech. The structure and patterns of comedy correlate with Spike Lee’s 2015 film Chiraq. It is based on ‘Old Comedy’ which touches upon the ‘polis’ or public life and ideas. ‘Old Comedy’ was…

Satire: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices. William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, uses satire to tell the readers about the nature of life. A part of living includes hardships and and not getting what is aimed for. Golding puts that lesson into the ending by not giving readers the satisfaction of getting what we want. Even when the boys turn to beasts In the book, the boys turn into savages and continue to be even to the…