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
Everyone ounce has laughed before in their life to forget about something to take their minds off of
A real life example that is envisioned when I think about humour in a tragic circumstance is when a person begins to laugh before they
Humor is the ingredient that keeps it all moving, holds the bigger picture, inspires and brings a sense of gratitude for life. Aspiring to these qualities illuminates the lack of them at times. When I hit this kind of wall or low, I turn to the smile and humor to elevate my
True humor is supposed to be used as way to make people look at situation from a different perspective and to laugh about it. An example of this is from the reading “SantaLand Diaries” where David realized that life was not going as expected. He is thirty –three years old and applying for an elf job. He tries to imagine a whole new world where he is able succeed and accomplish his dreams within three weeks of being in New York. In the reading he says “I’m trying to look on the bright side” he is using this imaginative world to help him get through a really tough time within his life.
But he doesn’t just leave the reader with only their thoughts about these words- he adds to their meanings. Rodriguez defines comedy not as laughter or happiness but as youth and the ability “to start anew”- as the ability to break tradition. In the same way
The use of humor to alleviate the dull reality of life is used in Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which supports the idea that one's own humor creates happiness in others and relieves stress much like in the critically acclaimed Christmas classic, Elf, starring Will Ferrell. Humor is used by Ken Kesey very prominently especially when the patients do not seem to have the ability to laugh at anything nor find anything funny. The patients live a very dull life in which they repeat their monotonous cycle of life in the ward. They no longer have known what it is like in the norm because of the Big Nurse wears them down with the oppressive nature of the Combine.
Between dry humor and the exaggeration made by the leading actresses, all of the humor portrayed is extremely overdone. All of the humor is mainly derived from farce which is a faction of low comedy. In essence, this comedy appeals to the dim minded that find humor in
It’s hard to understand much else about the why’s and how’s of laughter, but they seem to know, simply, that it works. This means that in order for readers to further understand the reality of things like humor in Kesey’s book, oneself should have to ignore their feelings and sacrifice the pleasure and ask questions that help people to discover what it is about humor that is so powerful. Laughter does not only play a major role in the story, but in life as
I possess the experience of having lived in an underserved area and good humor necessary for the study of medicine. Medicine is a field that can be taxing on a person mentally and emotional because of the things one encounters everyday. A good sense of humor can keep up good spirits. Laughter and smiling is medicine for the soul and they are contagious. Having lived in underserved areas I used my good humor to stay in a happy place.
Sometimes, it can also take the form of self-derision. It is one of the oldest themes on the basis of which humor is analyzed. According to this theory, a person can be found comical is therefore considered to be inferior, if he or she is inadequate according to a set of agreed-upon group or societal criteria. Both Plato and Aristotle wrote about humor as a form of mockery or disdain, usually self-directed, which should be kept at a minimum (Janco, 1984). The expression of humor as superiority can either serve the mechanism of control or a form of
Humor and irony play very important roles in Everyday Use. The humor found
One of the most valuable aspects of personality is humor – we value one’s sense of humor and make friends often based on finding certain things funny. But how and why do we consider things to be funny at all? Human beings have strived to uncover fundamental truths about human nature for centuries – even millennia – but humor itself is still yet to be pinpointed. Henri Bergson is only one of many who has attempted this feat, and his essay Laughter: an essay on the meaning of the comic from 1911 breaks down comedy into what he believes to be its essential forms and origins. While Bergson makes many valid points, Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times that was brought to screens only twenty years later seems to contradict many of Bergson’s theories, while Bergson seems to contradict even himself over the course of his essay.
They start to learn that laughter is a powerful tool in helping the world be a happier place. Berger talks about how laughter can change the world and change what is viewed as powerful (p. 71). Laughter goes beyond what is facts and allows for the escape of the mind. I agree with Berger’s idea here because no matter who you are or what you have done death does not care you are going to die. Nothing at this time can change that fact, it is just part of the empirical way of life.
Another positive for freedom of speech for comedians is that the jokes made can lighten the mood of the subject. A comedians function in society is to challenge authority, and talk about subjects that may be unacceptable (Hartsell). Comedians are expected to go too far, but when they do, they are disapproved for it. Although, the audiences may only laugh at a joke because of how awkward it is going to be if no one did. “People like to mask their feelings due to not wanting others to really know how they feel—so people may laugh in times of nervousness because they are trying to balance their anxious feelings” (Kaminski).
“Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together” (Alejandro Jodorowsky). Comedy and tragedy have been two popular forms of entertainment for people throughout the ages. From Greek performances to contemporary plays, the art of theatre is well and thriving. While the styles of playwrights and the way theatre is experienced changes through time, the messages these plays gaves have more or less stayed the same. Drama can, for the most part, be classified as either tragedy or comedy.