which focus on issues and current events in our society have become seemingly popular in today’s day and age. This maybe due to the four elements found in the programs. The four elements being: plots‚ characters‚ settings and the techniques in which humour is applied. These elements ease the program into achieving two possible purposes; firstly‚ to entertain its viewers; and secondly‚ to provide moral guidance to its viewers. A prime example of a sitcom that clearly displays these four elements is the
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film‚ Title – Castle; home figuratively castle‚ humble household cause humour‚ Genre – humorous‚ comedy‚ satire (mock/ ridicule something)‚ Kerrigans – main family‚ Working class family‚ Low budget film‚ Melbourne setting next to airport – house built on toxic landfill‚ beneath power lines‚ Events told by son Dale Kerrigan p.o.v‚ Australian culture/ identity‚ Made in 1997 Rob Sitch‚ Michael Caton father‚ Stephen Curry son‚ Humour: created by self-image of Australians – blue collar workers – concept
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The Happiest Refugee written by Anh Do portrays the life that he went through‚ through the positive and negative times. These significant moments have made Do who he is today‚ an internationally famous stand-up comedian. This essay will discuss the humour and moments of Ahn Do that has stood him in this position today. He has written about many times in his life were his world had changed for the better and the worse but two main parts that have been acknowledged is a pub scene and a McDonalds scene
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fighting depression. Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) a thirty six year old man with no job‚ wife and kids becomes close friends to Marcus; he helps out Marcus problems with the bullies and assists with Fiona’s battle with depression. The film makers use humour throughout the movie to divide up the serious incidents of the film to enable us to joke. Marcus the Protagonist starts a new school but his poor appearance such as a terrible hair cut‚ non suitable clothes‚ his relationship with his mum and singing
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of removing bad humours. The idea of bloodletting is reinforced by the humoral theory and research of Galen. Galen states that blood is produced in the live and is consumed in body parts‚ blood is not circulating and so will stagnate in different body parts. And the humoral theory of Galen state that the healthiness of our body is maintained by the humoral balance. So if there is excessive humours‚ we should remove them in order to maintain health. If blood is the excessive humour‚ bloodletting should
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In Act 2 of The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde uses irony to comment on the‚ absurd nature of the Victorian morals and values‚ context as well as highlight the satire‚ that he implemented‚ and humour. In the scene‚ Cecily admonishes Algy‚ who is pretending to be Ernest by saying‚ "I hope you have not been leading a double life‚ pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy." This is a use of dramatic irony as usually the act of being a hypocrite is
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serious‚ which is quite a challenge. I will discuss the four major elements of a sitcom: setting‚ plot‚ how the humour is created and most importantly the characters. Sitcoms are character driven‚ the plots come from the character’s lives and the settings and humour come from the lives of the characters. There are common settings in sitcoms‚ which are very familiar to the viewer‚ and the humour is formed from the various conflicts between characters or the
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Preliminary Assessment Task 2 – Tutorial Presentation Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two fools in a world that is beyond their understanding. They question the purpose of existence whilst pondering the mysteries of death and chance through constant rambling and anxious confusion. To understand the notion that ‘“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” locates us in places of social and psychological change’ we must acknowledge the context in which the play was written. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
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Wife" and "The Loaded Dog". these 2 short stories convey the themes of hardship‚ persistence and mateship by living in tretrous conditions of the environment and surving in them.he uses these distinctively visual elements to provide context‚ create humour‚ describe setting and help communicate and devolop ideas. The Drovers wife shows the harsh landscape of the australian outback through the tough times the drovers wife has to endure by herself to survive. The perception of her is that she is a protective
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Kubrick’s ‘Dr Strangelove: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the bomb’ was released in 1964 that a morbid representation of the potential sufferings was propelled into popular culture‚ ironically in the form of satire. The use of satire‚ or rather humour in the film is used to push the edge of believability (O’Connor‚ Jackson‚ Schlesinger‚ et al.‚ 1979‚ p.226) .
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