Comparing The Importance Of Being Earnest And The Middle

A well-made play is a comedy of manners. A comedy of manners is laughing at words that are used. The plot usually focuses on intrigues among the upper class and focuses on witty language on witty language, clever speech, insults and put downs are traded between characters. Elements that make up a well-made play is a misunderstanding between characters, mistaken identities, secret information, romantic conflicts, lost or stolen documents, and artificial plotting as seen in the book of “The importance of being Earnest” and the television show Seinfeld.

Performing arts are so vital to our everyday life because they provide us with a unique way to learn about history or to be educated on various issues. The play, Trouble In Mind by Alice Childress is an amazing example of how humor can be utilized in a play and still have a social impact. Alice Childress was a talented writer that thought about her audience when writing her play. She was able to use the everyday language and social issues that people encounter in order to attract a diverse audience. Childress was able to appeal to a diverse audience because she applied her amazing writing skills to write a play-within-a-play that presented struggles that the black actors were facing similar to the struggles that were in the play they were rehearsing

Drama text, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare is a romantic comedy revolved around marriage, dishonesty and love. In 2007, the original play had been interpreted and adapted into a new film text; Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare Retold. This new film version is an adaption for the modern audience who’s views around love and marriage have changed since Elizabethan times. Brian Percival ‘Retold’ the original play, first published in 1623 by reinterpreting it into his own understanding of modern society with the focus of women’s roles nowadays. Whilst doing this Percival has maintained many of Shakespeare’s intentions.

A comedic work of literature is often just one that was meant as pure enjoyment for the reader. Other times, comedy is meant to shed light on a serious situation or instance the public refuses or is uncomfortable talking about in a non-comedic setting. However, the greatest type of comedy is one that makes the reader think, one that provokes “thoughtful laughter” from them. “The Importance of Being Earnest”, a satirical play written during Victorian Era Britain by Oscar Wilde, is such a piece literature. By poking fun at the time period in which his characters live in during one particular scene, as well as illustrating the unsubdued hilarity of a character during that scene, Wilde is able to elicit thoughtful laughter from his audience, ultimately showing them that life is far too serious and needs to be taken more lightly.

However for the play to work, the audience must be laughing with the characters, not at them. The direction of the play portrayed this “rule” effectively, and it brought a blend of sympathy along with sportive humor as shown by the ending scenes, where you laugh at Arnold’s threats to move to Russia if Jack leaves,

The drama offers the idea that Earnest and Bunbury are very similar in this play, because they are both completely made up and that they also symbolize the empty

Humor can change the mood of any story. For example, try to guess the movie with this description: A widowed father’s only son is taken away from him, so he and mentally challenged women try to find him. This movie is Finding Nemo. When audiences think about Finding Nemo, they don’t think about it like that, even though that’s what the movie is actually about. Audiences perceive the story as a light-hearted and funny kids’ movie, when the main plot of the movie is dark. This is true of many humorous stories, as well in the comedy plays written by Shakespeare. The British poet used humor wisely in his plays. He used comedy as a diversion from the dark and somber parts of his stories. He also enabled audiences to laugh at circumstances that violate morals. Through distraction and seemingly inappropriate jokes, Merchant of Venice exhibits how Shakespeare uses humor to make his audiences laugh at the misfortunes in his comedy plays.

People are dealing with same emotions that stay the same because their religion, race and convictions do not change over time. Shakespeare uses themes that exceed the time and situation. Individuals share many conflicts such as mistrust in friends and families, dealing with pains, and many more, which is considered as universal themes. Shakespeare is universal playwright because he appeals with themes that everyone can relate to and in his sixteenth play, Much Ado About Nothing and its BBC’s Shakespeare Retold adaption

The subjects in the plays tend to incorporate a double meaning with exaggerations, verbal plays, and imitating accents. The cartoons on TV do the same thing. Often time through the use of satire and irony they create a strong message or a double meaning.

The Victorians invented an insane amount of social constructs and rules, and then sold themselves the idea that these were rigid absolutes. Aesthetically the victorian era is one of my favorite time periods. Ethically and ideologically however, it repulses me. The hyper-focus on restraint, gnosticism and being “better than human” is what I am referring to specifically. Where as I am on the side of celebrating our humanity and the natural world, the victorians seemed to think it couldn’t be anything other than vulgar and improvable.

Humour is a literary tool used for the entertainment of audiences and amusement. Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream utilises a multi formed humour to show many aspects such as the foolishness of the mechanicals, the clash of the fairy realm vs. human world and the romance of the lovers. Through an array of dramatic and literary techniques, Shakespeare creates a play with elaborate humour that is still understood by audiences of today. The Idiocy of the Mechanicals is used to create humour in Midsummer through literary and dramatic techniques.

Traditionally, comedy has been outlined in many ways in which.  As any story that ends gayly. In Dramatica terms this suggests that the story goal is obtained (outcome=success) and also the main character has satisfactorily resolved his inner conflict

Topic Analysis II: A Midsummer Night’s Dream When an audience laughs at the rude mechanicals of a play, it is because they show their amusing and clever natures and have made jokes poking fun at themselves. They often, also make us laugh with them when they have played pranks or practical jokes on fellow characters. We laugh at the characters more so because they have done something particularly foolish or stupid.

In a comparison of comedy and tragedy, I will begin by looking at narrative. The narration in a comedy often involves union and togetherness as we see in the marriage scene at the end of Midsummer's Night Dream. William Hazlitt tells us that one can also expect incongruities, misunderstandings, and contradictions. I am reminded of the play The Importance of Being Ernest and the humor by way of mistaken identity. Sigmund Freud tells us to expect excess and exaggeration in comedy. Chekhov's Marriage Proposal displays this excess both in language and in movements. Charles Darwin insists that in a comedy "circumstances must not be of a momentous nature;" whereas, Northop Frye identifies

There are many characteristics that make up a comedy. Characteristics such as mistaken identity, battle of the sexes, and jumping to conclusions are what set the comedic story apart from the tragedy. Within a comedy, no matter how much fault, and dismay may appear within the story, there always seems to be the classic ending of “…and they all lived happily ever after…” Comedies capture the viewer with a sense of compassion and love for the characters in the story. Each character has their own essence, to which they pertain a flaw of some sorts, which the audience can relate to. With the relation to characters there is defiantly a certain interest that is grabbed by the actors, which sucks the audience into the