Stand-up comedy

Have you ever played a joke on you friends? Or tried to prank them into believing something that wasn’t necessarily true? Well in William Shakespeare's, Much Ado About Nothing, these things happen all the time. In this story, there are numerous events where deception play a key role in the plot and moves the story into different directions. Some of the deception is harmless and other times it is very malicious. Shakespeare uses themes to teach a lesson to the reader that being honest to yourself…

have a different perspective on life and may think something is not funny but someone else with a whole different perspective and may be laughing like a madman. Although comedy is used for humorous reasons, there is usually a person negatively affected from the humor. There could be a possibility where a humorous situation ends up causing a person to be offended. Eliza from Pygmalion was treated like an object and Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena from A Midsummer Night’s Dream were also…

There are many different qualities that I possess. The ones that I think will benefit me in the nursing field are that I am a team player and I have a great sense of humor. Growing up in a household with 3 sisters, it was very hectic. Having siblings (as hard as it was) there is no room to be selfish. You learn how to be patient, kind, and generous. There is not one thing that my sisters can ask me that I would not help them with. I am a better person today because of them. I learned that no…

“Oh what humour” “Comedy is Australia’s second nature” By Ainya Have you ever heard the saying, Comedy is Australia’s second nature. Well it’s true. Comedy is what Australia lives for. It’s how, we as a nation, survived the war, the great depression and every other terrible thing that has tried to conquer Australia? As American journalist Hugh Sidey once said “A sense of humour is needed armour. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a…

If you found $100 on the street, what would you do with it? If I found $100 just sitting on the street, the first thing I 'd do is probably look around for people searching for something, ask around maybe. However, if there was no one around, I 'd do what most people would do and pocket it. One hundred dollars isn 't a ridiculously large amount of money, (maybe to a teenager like me with nothing of necessity to pay for on a regular basis) but I 'd still save it. Ever since I was a kid, I was…

Two and a Half Men was Based on Me In many ways, college can be a daunting chapter for a young person to start in their lives. They are thrown in with people they don’t know, to live in a place that is foreign to them and are expected to know how to take care of themselves. This scares a lot of people. Change scares people. A lot of times, the people who come out on top are those who are able to handle change, who are able to adapt and overcome the obstacles. There are many ways to do this. I…

Is Satire Early Sarcasm? (An analysis of Chaucer’s use of satire to reach his intended audience in the three texts Pardoner’s Prologue, Wife of Bath’s Prologue, and Wife of Bath’s Tale) “His mood and sense of humor, we may guess, is the reason behind the many different angles of his writing. Perhaps this was a clever move on his part when he involved both, serious and sarcastic tales in his writing. This way no one will ever be absolutely sure about the meaning” (Garay). Chaucer is known for…

each other. When superiority theories explain how people express superiority, alienation and differences through humour, relief/release theories explain the reaction of people’s body through the action of laughter and how humour is constructed and cognitively processed is explain in incongruity theories. This section provides a brief overview of the complex of humour concept and the theories behind its mechanism. Although the definition of humour varies from context to context depending on the…

constructive social criticism which uses wit as a weapon to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. Moreover, writers expect that whom he criticizes for would improve and overcome the weakness. And fictional character is which stands for real people to expose and condemn their corruption in satire texts. As to show you how satire exactly works, I choose this famous American masterpiece of the short story to illustrate and give examples to satire. Rip Van Winkle which…

fight, both of them are struggling even to pull out their sword and are screaming and yelling in panic. Then when Antonio comes to rescue Cesario, Sir Andrew retreats and disappears. The fight scene proves that Sir Andrew is cowardly, and cannot live up to his words. And that is the message Shakespeare is trying to deliver through this play especially through Sir Andrew. He is trying to tell that some noblemen are too deep into their haughtiness and arrogance, that they don’t even realize they…