A Show About NothingIn the artcle, Is Seinfeld the Best Comedy Ever?, author Jay McInerney agrees with Seinfeld the best comedy on television. Seinfeld is a real life show. The behaviors of Jerry, Kramer, George and Elaine, the failed communication, and the everyday embassassment represent nothingness but a peculiar everyday Read more…
Twelfth Night or What You Will is a romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1601. This play features many themes and issues that flow not only through small parts of the play, but throughout the whole piece. A lot of the themes that are presented contribute to the plot Read more…
Introduction Believe it or not the plot of the 1967 movie of Bonnie and Clyde has actually had several modern day incarnations starring Jim Carry and Steve Martin yet each of these movies have all been comedies and lacking in the dramatic quality that the original Bonnie and Clyde movie Read more…
al Swift Modest Proposal EssaysSarcasm and Irony inA Modest Proposal InA Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift, the main objective was to draw attention to the plight of the Irish people and motivate readers to find a workable solution. Swift shows the readers his proposal mainly through irony. Irony can be Read more…
William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is a novel about how the conflicting agendas within a family tear it apart. Every member of the family is to a degree responsible for what goes wrong, but none more than Anse. Anse’s laziness and selfishness are the underlying factors to every disaster Read more…
Neoclassicism:Neoclassicism represented a reaction against the passionate and enthusiastic renaissance view of man as being basically good and possessed of an endless potential for religious and intellectual growth. Neoclassical theorists, by contrast, saw man as an imperfect being, inherently sinful, whose potential was limited. They replaced the renaissance emphasis on Read more…
Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse Five as well as many other novels.Slaughterhouse Five is the story of Billy Pilgrim. Pilgrim is a time travelingwar veteran who is “unstuck” in time. The entire novel is a journeythrough this universe. He visits strange planets and the bombing of Dresden inGermany. Human cruelty is Read more…
Introduction Although food is not a major theme in The Importance of Being Earnest, it is used symbolically to represent abstract ideas in the play. From the moment the play opens to the point where the curtain falls, there are numerous cases where food is used to represent something else. Read more…
Karl Jung’s explanation for the archetypes that surface in cultural andreligious literature is that they are the product of what he calls thecollective unconsciousness. That thread of consciousness that connects all humanbeings and cultures around the world. Yet it is not visible to the naked eye,one must look for the Read more…
1.) The great philosopher Aristotle makes the distinction between comedy andtragedy. Aristotle defines tragedy as a tragic character falling from a highplace in society due to a flaw they possess and provides an insight into humanexistence. He defines comedy as any story that begins in adversity and ends inoptimism. Shakespeare Read more…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which was first published in 1885, by Mark Twain is regarded by most people as one of the important American works of fiction ever written because of its artistry and evocation of major themes within the United States of America. The book received praises because Read more…
Around 1568, a group of actors visited Stratford and put on a play before theentire town, with permission from John Shakespeare, the mayor of the town. Thepeople loved the play, especially the small children. All of them looked up tothe actors, as they returned each year to perform different plays. Read more…
Robert FariasAnth. 110 – Heather Myers – Fall/2017Final Exam Rough DraftNovember 12th, 2017 The Legend of Robin HoodAbstract:In this paper, I will analyze the importance of the story of Robin Hood. This story is one that we have all heard. Robin Hood exists as a legend for people to follow as Read more…
PajuahPurnellProfessorChildressENG102119January 2018 Who’s the Master?TheLast Dragon (1985) TheLast Dragon by director Michael Schultz is a martial arts comedy releasedin 1985 that is a spoof of one of the most famous karate movies ever: Enter the Dragon. This movie was filmedas a comedic re-launch of the Bruce Lee film that was released Read more…
The history of European theater begins with the Greeks, whose annual festivals in honor of the god Dionysus included competitions in tragic and comical plays. According to tradition, the first of these dramatic forms evolved from choral songs concerning the death and resurrection of Dionysus. This occurred about the middle Read more…
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