Conrad J. Gagnon.
Yellows.
January 19th, 2013.
Midsummer Night’s
Dream Essay.
A Comic Relief can add an element
of light hearted humor to any story, be it comedy or tragedy. A Comic Relief is
a character, speech, incident, or scene that is injected into a literary work
as a means of lightening the mood and relieving tension (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comic+relief).
Shakespeare uses Comic Relief to relieve tension and create a lightened mood.
Shakespeare
employs Comic Relief through Bottom’s malapropisms, Puck’s trick on Bottom, and
the workers’ performance at the end of the play. When Puck transforms Bottom’s
head into that of a donkey, his friends flee in fear. Not realizing he has been
changed, he asks his friends, “What do you see? You see an ass-head of your
own, do you?”(III.i.118) Bottom’s malapropisms add a simple, lighthearted
comedic vibe to the play, such as at the end of the play when Bottom says, “Since
lions vile hath here deflowered my dear.” (V.i.307), when he means to say
devoured. At the end of the play, Bottom and his friends put on a play during
the wedding, the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe”. The tragedy becomes a comedy
though, as Bottom and his friends’ performances were so poor that it was
entertaining. Theseus whispers to Lysander during the play, “This fellow doth
not stand upon points.” (V.i.125). Shakespeare’s of Comic Relief is expert and
entertaining.
There
are also many Comic Reliefs in the modern world, and they add an element of
light heartedness to life and movies. In the movie “Forrest Gump”, Forrest Gump
adds an element of comedy to the miserable despair that was Vietnam. In the
Star Wars series, C-3PO’s constant nervousness and confusion helps lighten the
mood throughout the intense intergalactic war. In Finding Nemo, Dory is an
absent-minded fish with short term memory loss. Dory helps Marlin, whose wife
and children aside from Nemo were consumed by a barracuda, travel to Sydney
Harbor, where his abducted son has been taken. Without Dory, the movie would
probably feel more like an animated tragedy than a comedic children’s movie. Comic
Relief is just as important in stories today as it was in Shakespeare’s times.
A Comic Relief can add an element
of light hearted humor to any story, be it comedy or tragedy. A Comic Relief is
a character, speech, incident, or scene that is injected into a literary work
as a means of lightening the mood and relieving tension (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/comic+relief).
Shakespeare uses Comic Relief to relieve tension and create a lightened mood,
as presented here.
Works Cited.
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