Humor In The Chahonesque

Henri Bergson believes “mechanical inelasticity” (Bergson ) is essential to laughter. In Chaplin’s movie Modern Times, there are many illustrations of such technique that not only composes humorous but also contribute to its theme—capitalists exploit low social status workers.After giving the very basic elements of laughter:—lack of emotions, connection to human traits, relationship to social context —Bergson introduces mechanical inelasticity as the main cause of his main idea regard to laughter. Inelasticity is rigidness. When people are insensitive to changes and remains the last state of their bodies, their bodies are lack of elasticity. The example provided by Bergson is when someone falls, the person may fall because he or she fails to

Short stories are just what they sound like, short stories that build up to the point with no unneeded information. In various cases, short stories continue a book series or is a continuation of a book when the characters’ are years older. In other cases, short stories are stand alone stories that get right to the point and do not leave people hanging. Edgar Allan Poe is an author of over thirty short stories and around sixty-nine poems. These short stories are what has helped to create a legacy for short stories for over forty years and still are. Most of Poe’s stories have an eerie feeling due to him suffering from depression from all of his family members passing away. The story “ The Cask of Amontillado” is referred to as one of the best

“Humour is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.” The term Humour has been derived from the Greek language, which teaches that humour is the balance of fluids in the human body. Humour is savoured by different taste-buds like: Anecdotal, Blue, Dark/Gallows/Morbid, Epigrammatic, Hyperbolic, Ironic, Satirical, Satirical, Situational and Slapstick. Franz Kafka, the author of the outright existential classic ‘The Metamorphosis’ uses depressing humour to deal with the bitter deathly truths of life.

Humor from earlier in the English Renaissance was much more extreme than humor later in the Renaissance, most likely due to the fact that there were not as many power struggles during the early parts of the English Renaissance (1500–1599 (A.D.) World History).

People always say that laughter alleviates tension. If this is the case, then it makes sense that the use of humor when discussing uncomfortable topics can make the conversation easier and more light-hearted. One of Mark Twain’s most frequently used devices in works such as “Advice to Youth”, “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is satire, which can provide society a method to bond over uncomfortable topics, and facilitate the ability to sustain that bond through an easier way to create discussion.

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.

This value is evident to have when in war, especially when a horrific situation occurs. An example of this is – August 24th in ‘Shrapnel and Semaphore’ whereas Bill ‘stumbles’ upon a decomposed Turk and unexpectedly knocks his head off. Even though he badly twists his knee in doing so, he finds the humour in the situation; Bill amusingly names the dead Turk a common British name ‘Johnny Turk.’ As he notes the way the dead corpse’s stench is ‘polluting the air’ yet ‘fertilising the flowers.’ Bill is highlighting how important the quality of humourising a bad situation is to have when faced with the destruction of

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.

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.

Comedy originated in the 6th century BC in ancient Greece at the Dionysian festival. Comedy was first designed to provoke laughter and to entertain the audience. The ancient Greeks used the word comedy to describe a play with a happy ending much the same as the play the ‘Importance of being Earnest’. The play uses elements of old comedy for example; it is a satire of the Victorian era that is most importantly applied through the use of gender and role reversal (ridicule to expose traditional gender value) it also weaves in strands of new comedy, where young lovers typically undergo endless vicissitudes. ‘The importance of being Earnest’ is

With the definition of a satire being, ‘the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity’, it is ludicrous to even propose that The Importance of Being Earnest is anything other than a satirical play, as the characters relishing in the upper class of the Victorian period unknowingly mock their own habits acquired to them due to the luxury they are spoilt with. Despite this, it is evident that the use of satire is feckless and lacks a moral point of view, in contrast with the moral

Despite this there are some interesting anecdotal evidence that humor was used as a means to express wit and learning. Consider French writer Voltaire or even in relatively modem times Oscar Wilde and his extremely witty characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray. These writers used wit and humor to influence people, to stir emotions in their readers and their conversing abilities were fresh and exciting. Humor typically has an element of shock and awe and readers or listeners are shaken beyond their limits of self-control to burst into laughter. Uncontrollable laughter as related to humor was against the strict moral laws of Plato. Even Aristotle seemed to believe in some restrictions on humorous conversation. Humor was suited to a clown in restricted scenarios and serious self-respecting men and women did

A good laugh can assist difficult matters to appear less ominous. Retrieving that laughter enhances the artier of the playwright, weaving one word after another between the lines of the script. This humorous approach sanctions the disarmament of inhibitions plus defensives, crafting a story that still provides an important message. In The importance of being Earnest author Oscar Wilde uses theories of comedy and comic devices adding to the theatrics of the absurdities of the social class of the era.

our society, not in order to make fun of them but to express the best

The genre of comedy, throughout the history of dramatic art has always served to not only entertain audiences, but to make them aware of their own individual flaws, or flaws that exist in society. (Weitz, E.) Comedy has no precise definition, and its boundaries are broad. One function of comedy however has remained the same - to hold up a mirror to the society of the time but through pleasure, inviting audiences to reflect and also providing amusement. Set in the late nineteenth century, the play An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1895) epitomises comedy, as both a literary and dramatic genre. Wilde was masterful in his ability to combine aspects of evolved comedic traditions and dramatic conventions to critique Victorian society. Drawing on characteristics of Greek and Roman tragicomedy, the choices in the play’s plot involves elements of tragedy as well as scenes that serve as comic relief and give the audience a sense of finality through a happy resolution. (Bureman, L) Focussing on the upper class stratum, Wilde employs a comedy of manners Molière style, of the Restoration Period in the seventeenth century in the play by combining forms of comedy with aspects of realist drama. The portrayal of archetypal figures such as Lady Chiltern and Lord Goring satirize rigid moral value of the time and expose their hypocrisies, through dialogue involving irony, wit and humour. Elements of farce and disguises characterized by ‘commedia dell’arte’, a form of comedy first developed in