Shakespearean comedy

Humor is the aspect of being comic or amusing.It keeps the pattern and rhythm of our very lives constantly flowing. They say humor is serious business and without it there is no life. Where there is humor contentment ,fun , joy and happiness are guaranteed. This article aims to show you that humor can be the best component of life. We were walking with my younger sister together with our niece who is four years old beside a nearby pond. The sight was breath taking- the sight of ducks in it, the…

My mom and I may look-alike, sound alike and have the same blood type but we are not alike. Instead, I am more like my dad. I grew up in a prominently male Louisiana family. I have one brother who is 7 years older than me and 6 uncles. Being the first girl cousin of a long line of boy cousins is something that has always defined me. My dad always wanted a daughter while my mom did not want any more children after my brother. When I was born, my mother and I’s similarities stopped at…

sick aside, and let the comedy take over. Billy being sick is a key factor to the story because if he wasn’t sick, then there wouldn’t be a comedy. He is the reason for Father Pancho coming in and having such erratic behavior in the story. His sickness is a social signification. Since this short story is meant to be funny, the audience’s mindset is fixated on the humorous…

Lysistrata, a play written by Aristophanes in 410 BC is a comedic battle of the sexes as the women of Athens decide to take it upon themselves to end the Peloponnesian War. Lead by the titular character Lysistrata, women from both sides of the war agree to abstain from having sexual relations with their husbands to have the men cease fighting. In the end men from both sides, in obvious and extreme sexual frustration, agree to end the war and return home with their wives. Although Lysistrata is a…

moral progress” (Almond 94). This is applied not only in our own lives, but also in literature. For instance, Sister experiences this kind of coping mechanism through comedy in Eudora Welty’s short story “Why I Live at the P.O.” In this narrative, the reader gets a sense of how family conflict causes great pain through Welty’s use of comedy…

When it comes to comedy movies, what names pop to your head? Jim Carrey in Liar Liar (1997), Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun (1988), Will Ferrell in Anchorman (2004)? Or maybe if you have a more "sophisticated" taste, Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) or Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski (1998)? All of these Hollywood films are fun and memorable in their own way, but there is a younger lad coming from the moores of England who has altered the understanding of comedy in cinema. In this paper, I am…

Just for fun, Nassim Nicholas Taleb enjoys making fun of those who take themselves, better yet, their levels of know-how, too seriously. Hinting that his habit of poking fun at scholars is a possible coping mechanism for his intellectual insecurity. In his book, “Fooled by Randomness,” he attempts to equate one’s success to mere chance or randomness. Making a case that moderate success can be influenced by hard-work, and the level of skills one possesses, but that success to higher degree is the…

Introduction Many films are loved because they are “good”, their aesthetic merits fulfill a specific role for the audience. The Room, directed by Tommy Wiseau, is a different story. The Room is often called “the Citizen Kane of bad movies”- it features wooden acting, cheap production values and a completely nonsensical script. It seemed as though this film would disappear, but soon after its release, The Room developed a strong cult following. Theaters would show the film at midnight to excited…

Taylor Levant FMS 508 Defying the Odds: The Defiant Ones and Interracial Buddy Films Audiences have long been fascinated with interracial buddy films. From comedy to sci-fi, moviegoers love the opposites attract chemistry that these on screen homosocial relationships spark, as well as the stories they tell about men and the times in which they live. Though interracial films are commonplace today, the genre didn’t even exist until The Defiant Ones was released in 1958. Directed by Stanley…

Laughter is a phenomenon in which the reasoning behind it remains unknown. However, laughter, more specifically comedy, is a powerful weapon that can be used to impact and control society. In particular, when authority is tyrannical the best response is simply ridiculing them by the use of humor. A dehumanizing effect which not only weakens authority’s power, but gives the power back to the people in return. The Shmeed Memoirs, a satirical piece from the point of view of Hitler’s barber, and…