Comic relief

protagonist Marji Satrapi and her family, by making the most of things; and some people are not like them. This essay will give some examples of how citizens of Iran enjoyed life throughout everything that happened to them and how Satrapi added comic relief to the graphic novel. Firstly, there are many examples in Persepolis that indicates comical

audience a break from the anxiety they built up from the previous scenes. There is dispute on the role of Porter in Macbeth, however the Porter is comic relief in the play. In the Shakespearean play Macbeth the porter is used for comedic relief from the melodramatic, riveting and tense scenes in the play. One reason the Porter is used as comic relief in Macbeth is because he allows for a break between dramatic and tense scenes. According to Aaron Huang, “The audience was distracted

plotline of the play. Comic relief serves a more significant thematic purpose than to merely mitigate apprehension. While the gravediggers in Hamlet depict humorous characters in Act V. scene I, repartee is interwoven with some surprisingly ironic and profound insights. For instance, their discussion regarding Ophelia advances a chief theme in the play: the controversy around moral legitimacy of suicide subservient to theological law. By granting this hefty topic a darkly comic rendition, Shakespeare

laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.” This is especially true in William Shakespeare’s works. Even his tragedies have aspects of humor and comic relief in them! A wonderful example of this is in his famous Elizabethan tragedy Romeo and Juliet. While some may view this play as being simply a dark tale of young love, scenes of comic relief are actually plentiful and come before, after, and even during scenes of the more tragic and serious variety. These scenes do not only add emotional levity

Pride Numerous meanings thrive throughout Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. One of the most prominent essential values shared is pride. The Younger family having little financial worth to their name holds pride as a means of dignity. Pride is depicted in almost every aspect of the novel, particularly represented through intricate self-respected morals, dreams, and struggle. Every character relays pride in their unique way. Mama and Walter are the most diverse to analyze in terms of layered

refers to the decomposition of the human body proving what he said was true in a comic sense. To prove the existence of tendency wit we have a scenario in which Hamlet and Polonius are judging the clouds. Hamlet shifts his view of the cloud from a camel to a weasel is a form of exaggerated comic accommodation, the opposite of tragic integrity (Snyder 112).      Two of the most odd and certainly comic people in the work of Hamlet, are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Both of these

Shakespeare essay: Other than comic relief, what is the purpose of the workers in the play? In the play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, I think that the workers in the play are for comic relief like the question said, but I think that they are also used to show courage, and that sometimes when you think that something is going to turn out very bad, and you trying that the Duke of Athens, in the worker’s case will hang you, it could turn out good. I think that Peter Quince really thought

to speak with him. The purpose of this short scene is to provide a comic relief from the rising tension in the previous acts, display the trust Cassio is gaining towards Iago and show how Emilia agrees to organize a private meeting between Desdemona and Cassio. After Iago’s soliloquy in the previous scene, the humorous dialogue about the tails and wind instruments between the musicians and Othello’s servant serves as a comic relief at the beginning of the scene.

intensity. He used these comic reliefs as a break for the audience; Shakespeare knew that this was almost overwhelmingly emotion to the audience. There’s only so much intensity that his audiences could take, after every death or emotional tragedy there has to be some sort of humor to allow the audience to relax for a little bit. Normally in a tragedy there’s a minimum of five people who die. In hamlet there’s many more that, this is a major reason of why Shakespeare uses comic relief in this story. The

Comic Relief in Hamlet Shakespeare’s use of comedy in Hamlet always occurs around a dramatic event and the placement of these comedic messages serve as comic reliefs to ease the tension that is brought on by the nature of the tragedy. This reveals the author’s success in trying to entertain the audience while simultaneously keeping them despondent. Hamlet’s internal and external conflicts give birth to humorous remarks that reveal his inner feelings. The incestuous marriage of Gertrude and Claudius