Category: Comedy

Dogma is the latest movie from director Kevin Smith, whose previous movies Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy have become cult hits. This movie should be no different from the last three. Smith has more star power then ever to work with in this movie with such stars as Ben Affleck (who had a part in …

Have you ever felt that there were two of you battling for control of the person you call yourself? Have you ever felt that you weren’t quite sure which one you wanted to be in charge? All of us have at least two selves: one who wants to work hard, get good grades, and be …

iesIn 1953, Arthur Miller wrote his famous play The Crucible, in response to a fear of Communism that had developed in the United States during that decade. The "Red Scare", as it was later called by historians was led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose paranoia of a communist takeover spread through the nation like a …

CharactersThere is more than a touch of the picaresque rogue in Jim Dixon. Jim perpetrates asuccession of practical jokes, tricks, and deceptions on other characters in the novel,especially those who offend his democratic sensibility. He has a talent for “pulling faces” and projecting voices gestures Amis uses toenhance Jim’s social commentary. He is sometimes aided …

Word Count: 815 was a great Englishplaywright, dramatist and poet who lived during the latesixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare isconsidered to be the greatest playwright of all time. Noother writer’s plays have been produced so many times orread so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespearewas born to middle class parents. His father, …

When the well-known English dramatist William Shakespeare began writing Othello, he had already been educated in the classics and in literature. Although his contemporary Ben Jonson said that Shakespeare knew “little Latin and less Greek,” scholars know that Shakespeare knew, at least, about Greek ideas about comedy and tragedy. He was not incredibly educated, but …

An Analysis of Moliere’s Satirization of Social Issues A man, or rather a demon in flesh and inhabited as a man, the most notably impious creature and libertine who ever lived throughout the centuries, has had the impiety and abomination to bring forth from his devilish mind a play Tartuffe…He deserves for this sacrilegious and …

Elizabeth’s Pride and Darcy’s Prejudice?Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a timeless social comedy which is both satirical and full of sentiment. The title refers to the personalities of the two main characters and cues the reader to Austen’s broader thematic purpose: to satirize nineteenth century manners and morals, especially as they relate to courtship …

Shakespeare Finds Love on a Midsummer NightThe forest outside Athens is filled with changelings, magic, and ancient myth: in other words, the stage is set. The night is silent and still as four mortals alternately hate and love, monarchs of the faerie world clash wills, and the mischief of one irrepressible woodland sprite weaves a …