In some instances dumb humor is the most effective in certain situations. Characters being oblivious to the current world and their actions provide a comic satisfaction for the audience because of its absence of common sense. Modern Family portrays the average “modern family” with a bit of funny characteristics to illuminate the inner humorous traits in each character. In Modern Family, Luke expresses absurdly, an oblivious manner, and devious characterization to achieve comic satisfaction through his ridiculous and unpredictable actions.
Throughout the show Luke plays an oblivious character who only thinks one step at a time. He never processes his decisions and actions in his head and just acts on instinct and nature. His thoughts are completely random and absurd. Quotes like “can we launch humans?” that suggest that his mental capacity is a bit slow compared to normal child.
Oblivious manner is a part of Luke that makes him funny. His straight forward attitude expresses his inner thoughts no matter how ridiculous they are. His mind has no filter so all of the random thoughts the every human has but has the sense to hold back, Luke actually say.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Swift Analysis
Innate Immorality
Ever since the existence of literature humans have been pictured in some way, shape, or form to be deep down side, evil. Books and novels have been written to mainly explain and prove this statement to be true. History has been a proof and fact to this declaration. In Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal continuous dark comedy and serious diction combined with a controversial topic progresses into an inter-conflict simply to address the fact that all humans are innately evil.
Dark comedy is incorporated throughout Modest Proposal to provide a grim humor to the writing. Eating babies is in fact a gruesome topic but to the recent generation of humor is somewhat acceptable. Such lines like “a child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends” to provide the quality of such scrumptious food. Swift also goes along saying “that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food” to illustrate the slight comedy in the gruesomeness details regarding child eating. The absurdness of the idea is what makes the humor the satisfying element that it is. Backing up his unethical statement with simple facts and statistics, makes the reader second guess the proposal and perceive the possibilities of the design. Don’t lie because we all do it, even for that split second when we realize that he is indeed correct in saying the world would be better off if the scheme was in effect. However morals quickly come to the rescue in returning to the brain to bring a stable, correct, and ethically mind set. Though that second where we actual agree with the proposition is the evil in which encompasses humanity. It might be small and come forth relatively few times but Swift proves is a fact that no matter the extent of evil in a person, the evil is inevitably present.
The essay is written in such a serious and direct tone in order to illuminate the dark comedy and gruesome humor regarding the topic. Instead of creating false facts that would present his idea to be anything other than completely serious, he continuously states doubtable facts, “infant’s flesh will be in season throughout the year, but more plentiful in March” in order to maintain a somber tone. With such content like “I can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against this proposal” to address his idea as completely logical. The complete overtone to be unemotional and only practical is one of the very things Swift intended to do when writing this essay.
People would make their own judgments to certain parts of the essay pertaining to their own moral standings. Weighing in the facts against ethicality is a risky balance and could go different ways for different people. For instance when Swift states, “that it will prevent those voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of woman murdering their bastard children” is in fact correct and his plan will stop the abortions and killing of bastard sons. The idea seems bullet proof until morals comes to play where eating babies is actually sickening.
The tone has some aspects of practical thinking in its elements that makes it more terrifying because for just a moment it makes sense. The idea is brilliant is it not? However is practical thinking such a moral crime in this situation? It is only the glimpse of the truth that reveals the factual nature of all humans. Survival is selfish and only the strong suited and able live on as history tell us. The fact of the matter is that if it was ethnically acceptable would one give in? If the only bad side to the proposal was the moral wrongness of eating babies then entire scheme would be beneficial. If this plan was acceptable it would help individuals and families. It could solve a problem of a raising world population dilemma, a food crisis, or even boost the economy. The only question is; would you do it?
Ever since the existence of literature humans have been pictured in some way, shape, or form to be deep down side, evil. Books and novels have been written to mainly explain and prove this statement to be true. History has been a proof and fact to this declaration. In Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal continuous dark comedy and serious diction combined with a controversial topic progresses into an inter-conflict simply to address the fact that all humans are innately evil.
Dark comedy is incorporated throughout Modest Proposal to provide a grim humor to the writing. Eating babies is in fact a gruesome topic but to the recent generation of humor is somewhat acceptable. Such lines like “a child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends” to provide the quality of such scrumptious food. Swift also goes along saying “that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food” to illustrate the slight comedy in the gruesomeness details regarding child eating. The absurdness of the idea is what makes the humor the satisfying element that it is. Backing up his unethical statement with simple facts and statistics, makes the reader second guess the proposal and perceive the possibilities of the design. Don’t lie because we all do it, even for that split second when we realize that he is indeed correct in saying the world would be better off if the scheme was in effect. However morals quickly come to the rescue in returning to the brain to bring a stable, correct, and ethically mind set. Though that second where we actual agree with the proposition is the evil in which encompasses humanity. It might be small and come forth relatively few times but Swift proves is a fact that no matter the extent of evil in a person, the evil is inevitably present.
The essay is written in such a serious and direct tone in order to illuminate the dark comedy and gruesome humor regarding the topic. Instead of creating false facts that would present his idea to be anything other than completely serious, he continuously states doubtable facts, “infant’s flesh will be in season throughout the year, but more plentiful in March” in order to maintain a somber tone. With such content like “I can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against this proposal” to address his idea as completely logical. The complete overtone to be unemotional and only practical is one of the very things Swift intended to do when writing this essay.
People would make their own judgments to certain parts of the essay pertaining to their own moral standings. Weighing in the facts against ethicality is a risky balance and could go different ways for different people. For instance when Swift states, “that it will prevent those voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of woman murdering their bastard children” is in fact correct and his plan will stop the abortions and killing of bastard sons. The idea seems bullet proof until morals comes to play where eating babies is actually sickening.
The tone has some aspects of practical thinking in its elements that makes it more terrifying because for just a moment it makes sense. The idea is brilliant is it not? However is practical thinking such a moral crime in this situation? It is only the glimpse of the truth that reveals the factual nature of all humans. Survival is selfish and only the strong suited and able live on as history tell us. The fact of the matter is that if it was ethnically acceptable would one give in? If the only bad side to the proposal was the moral wrongness of eating babies then entire scheme would be beneficial. If this plan was acceptable it would help individuals and families. It could solve a problem of a raising world population dilemma, a food crisis, or even boost the economy. The only question is; would you do it?
Friday, March 2, 2012
Kiss and Tell
In “Kiss and Tell” Alain de Botton depicts an awkward encounter between parents and daughter through characterized imagery to express the hidden similarity that is inevitable among generations. Experiencing the uncomfortable situation that is “Kiss and Tell” is relevant in our own lives and we can all relate to the incident in one way or another. From parents “making vigorous hand gestures of a man waving off a departing cruise ship”to Isabel’s moms “desire to shout ‘Isabel’ at top pitch” our parents have one way or another embarrassed us completely. It’s a part of life that comes with being part of a family and every person has in some shape or another underwent this situation.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Naked Lunch
Through an awkward dinner Hollinger utilizes dull sarcasm, deep characterization, and a comical point of view to demonstrate the true intentions of an argument at dinner.
Suburban
Through a humorous interaction between neighbors Ciardi portrays stereotypical behavior through subtle sarcasm, comedy of manner, and numerous double entendres to illustrate a subjective point of view from suburban women.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
"That Awkward Moment"
Since this is an awkward moment topic I do have a story to tell. Well actually it is my cousin’s story. You see he comes from a peculiar town where the things reserved for the strangest beings in my school were the norm in his. People wearing raccoon fur were praised. There we still bea-blade battles at lunch, and their thought process was very much eccentric. Now this story describes a tale about a young fellow by the name of John. John was your average middle school student; he did his homework, played soccer, and enjoyed backyardians weekend nights. John was going about that Tuesday April 5th like it was any other day of the week. However everything changed the moment he rose from his small desk and walked his way in Ms. Peterson’s direction. “May I go to the bathroom” John said. “Of course John” Ms. Peterson would reply. So now John is on his way to the bathroom, he walked down a flight of stairs since his classroom is on the second floor, and as he turns the corner going at a brisk walking pace he runs into another kid. They both bump heads. And no that is not the awkward moment that I will climax at, but this incident is indeed awkward no doubt. John asks is she was okay, and apologizes. She answers saying that she is fine. So now John continues his way to the bathroom and is laughing a bit at what just happened. He puts his hand up to push the door of the restroom open and as he pushes the door open he sees a group of his friends just hanging in the bathroom. Now understand this is a very strange town so talking with friends for excessive periods during the day in the lavatory is normal. The kids weren’t just talking but they were also gambling and seeing his friends having fun John felt like he had no choice but to join them. He gambles for a while and ends up losing all of his lunch money. Desperate to win some money he makes a bet that is he wins he gets his money back but if he loses he has to pee on the bathroom wall. I have no idea why they would want John to urinate on the wall of the restroom but the creditability of this town was lost way earlier in the story. John ends up losing the bet. His friends all start giggling because they know that now he has to follow through with the bet. John realizing that he won’t get out of the bet now, just accepts it. He turns toward the wall, unbuckles his trousers and begins peeing on the bare wall. The stall door opens, a stall no one every goes into and the kids had completely forgot to check. The janitor walks out of the stall and looks John straight in the eye and says nothing. You might think this Is awkward but I’m afraid to tell you that this is not the most awkward moment. The 10 seconds between the janitor walking out of the stalling and looking at John to the time he stops peeing on the wall. John was in shock; he didn’t have anywhere to go but to look at the janitor and continues peeing. The urinal was on the other side of the bathroom and he couldn’t just stop peeing now that he had started. The death stare from the janitor was unbearable but yet he couldn’t look away. When John finally stopped the janitor said ten words “you know I’m going to have to clean that up”
Monday, February 6, 2012
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