Essays Tagged: "comedic"

A Midsummer Night's Tragedy

lay is a play in which one or more characters is has a moral flaw that leads to his/her downfall. A comedic play has at least one humorous character, and a successful or happy ending. Comparing these ...

(4 pages) 92 1 4.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > A Midsummer Night's Dream

Romeo and Juliet: Act III, Scene V

ing the eventual tragedy Romeo and Juliet's death. From this point on in the play there are no more comedic or romantic scenes. The following scenes are of extreme actions, mishap and tragedy. The 'st ...

(3 pages) 39 0 4.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde's, explores the role of deceit in the play

ed the characters and plot of the play appear to be entirely irreverent, thus lending weight to the comedic, fanciful aspect. However, this same factor also serves to illuminate the major points that ...

(3 pages) 208 2 4.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Discuss the sexual hipocrasy that runs rampant through the novel "Joseph Andrews" using the character of Mrs. Slipslop as the primary basis for your argument.

impulses when combined with her undeniably misguided devotion to those of status make her the ideal comedic example of society's wrong doings.Mrs. Slipslop can best be described as pretentious. This i ... eph, ' I don't understand your hard words:"(JA.52)Fielding uses the character if Mrs. Slipslop as a comedic example of those who are sexually uninhibited, or as Fielding would say " the unvirtuous". I ...

(5 pages) 41 0 1.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

ong with Ferris Bueller, especially when he talks to the audience throughout the movie. It may be a comedic movie but Ferris says some of the most thought provoking quotes that have ever been said in ... Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.The plot is sometimes ?flat? at times but the long comedic scenes easily make up for this. It is a kind of movie that you would never forget, and worth ...

(2 pages) 40 0 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Shakespeare's Comedy vs. Tragedy.

play is a play in which one or more characters is has a moral flawthat leads to his/her downfall. A comedic play has at least onehumorous character, and a successful or happy ending. Comparing thesetw ...

(4 pages) 40 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Director John Waters as auteur.

use of the same actors, Waters' love for scandal ridden celebrities, all were located in Baltimore, comedic portrayals of sex, outcasts, altercations with the police, and a shot of a mouse, rat or ger ...

(6 pages) 64 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Running head: The Path of Success.

must have determination and face limitless challenges for this Holy Grail. The Mystic Masseur is a comedic novel which explores the life of a young man, Ganesh Ramsumair as he builds up his path towa ...

(5 pages) 63 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Lack of knowledge

In comedic texts, words are used not only to tell a comical story, but also to show the audience what t ... t also to show the audience what the playwrights were trying to express. Specifically, in narrative comedic texts such as Molierre's "Tartuffe" written physical language are used to carry the plots as ...

(4 pages) 94 0 3.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Advocacy:The Psychology of advocacy and how to examine a witness.

als and courtroom behavior on shows similar to these. I know television is much more dramatized and comedic than real life, but I didn't realize how much more depth there was to a trial, though. It is ...

(9 pages) 37 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Importance of Carnival in Aphra Behn's The Rover

misrepresentation, and elaborate swordplay, which create tension and confusion in addition to many comedic episodes. The setting is Carnival time in Venice, which is important to the plot for several ... ing is also the cause of mistaken identities. Because of this confusion Behn is able to further the comedic and suspense elements. For example, Don Pedro is denied his opportunity with the lovely Ange ...

(4 pages) 103 1 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

An essay on the novel "Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

at it should be doing and there's this one patient who knows exactly how to correct the system in a comedic manner?One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey shows a battle between Ms. Big Nurse Rat ...

(3 pages) 85 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Ideological Criticism of "The Dave Chappelle Show"

ce the butt of each joke. My thesis is mainly focused on the ethnicity approach of Dave Chappelle's comedic tactics that seem to point directly at white society more than half of the time. Many ... make fun of the life style of whites in society. Dave Chappelle is a prime example of this type of comedic technique. I want to first discuss the post-structuralism (How the structure of TV/text has ...

(5 pages) 57 1 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Critically evaluate the success or otherwise of the film "ten things I hate about you" as an adaptation of Shakespeare's "the taming of the shrew."

cted by Gilbert Junger is a recent, witty and highly successful adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedic classic The Taming of the Shrew. The film is a loose adaptation of the play, aiming not to r ... lationships, while sub plots of both involve sibling rivalry and father/daughter relationships. The comedic element of each text is also very important. Shakespeare was incredibly gifted when being wi ...

(5 pages) 83 2 3.3 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Revenge of the nerds movie review

ademic pedantry, but to help illuminate some of what is happening in Revenge of the Nerds below its comedic surface. I find it interesting that nerd originally conveyed a sense of stupidity or foolish ...

(6 pages) 59 2 4.4 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Shakespeare's Comedy vs. Tragedy

lay is a play in which one or more characters is has a moral flaw that leads to his/her downfall. A comedic play has at least one humorous character, and a successful or happy ending. Comparing these ...

(4 pages) 68 2 4.4 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Movie review (Hard Ball)

Mighty Ducks, but this movie strives to be more hard-hitting than either of those family-friendly, comedic efforts. A more apropos likening might be to Dangerous Minds, the flaccid, Hollywood-ized ta ...

(3 pages) 22 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Review on Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996)

c and actions as I will explain further on in this essay.Though the film is a tragedy it has lot of comedic issues this is shown best in the garage scene at the beginning of the film. The basic set up ... before the fighting when the line "you bite your thumb at me sir is used". The part that makes this comedic rather than tragic is the over exaggeration of the characters actions during the fight and d ...

(5 pages) 51 0 3.7 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Views On Female Marriages in "Pride and Prejudice" and "Jane Eyre".

is filled with intelligence and humor. The first sentence of the first chapter has already made the comedic tone of the whole novel:"IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that a single man in possess ...

(25 pages) 75 0 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole: Ignatius Reilly.

each time failing miserably and causing greater misfortune for himself. At the end of the novel, in comedic irony, she saves him from mental and physical captivity.At the beginning of the relationship ...

(4 pages) 26 0 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American