Laughter Is Humanity

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Laughter is human beings’ special quality which is transmissible too. The noteworthy object about laughter is that it arises in human beings automatically. It has become part of life; we can understand the necessity of it in life by many laughing clubs established all over the world. Laughter is the effect of comedy as genre in movies, writings and laughing clubs. Comedy can be perceived as the sub domain of the entertainment in which humour or laughter is turned into art in many sense. Aristotle when he categorises comedy with tragedy and other genres he mentions words like ‘superior’ and ‘inferior’ but he does says not to take in to accountability of ethical while creating comedy or enjoying comedy, but in this present world two adjectives …show more content…

Laughter is part of the worldwide human language. All members of the human species understand it. Unlike other languages, we do not have to learn to speak it. We are born with the capacity to laugh. One of the remarkable things about laughter is that it occurs instinctively. We don’t adopt to organize it. While we can consciously constrain it, we don’t consciously produce laughter. That is why it is very hard to laugh on demand or to fake laughter. Laughter provides authoritative, unrestricted intuitions into our unconscious. It simply bubbles up within us in certain situations. We do know that laughter is triggered by many feelings and thoughts, and that it activates many parts of the body. When we laugh, we alter our facial expressions and make sounds. We also know that laughter is a message that we send to other people. So, we laugh by reading something, watching something, thinking about something and listening to something that makes us laugh without inhibitions. It has become part of life; we can understand the necessity of it in life by many laughing clubs established all over the world. Laughter is the effect of comedy as genre in movies, writings and laughing clubs. Comedy can be perceived as the sub domain of the entertainment in which humour or laughter is turned into art by mime artists, dramatists, television writers, cartoonists, music hall singers, stand-up comedians and many others, including millions of ‘funny people’ …show more content…

The main purpose is to amuse by inducing laughter. The genre of comedy has various multiple sub genres which are based on the source of humour; the person who delivers it and the context it is delivered. It has black comedy, blue comedy, wit, satire, character comedy, observational comedy, insult comedy, spoof, musical comedy and many more. Aristotle’s lines on comedy differentiate comedy with tragedy. He defines:
“Tragedy imitates “the action of superior people” is a generic specification concerning what tragedy ‘imitates’ and not a requirement concerning what tragedy ‘should imitate.’ Similarly, not only the ideal comedy, but every comedy imitates “the action of the inferior people.” The adjectives ‘inferior’ and ‘superior,’ then, cannot be taken in an ethical, but rather in an aristocratic sense of the word. Tragedy imitates actions of mythical heroes and heroines and comedy those of ordinary

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