Humor Essays

The poems “Midnight” and “Purple Bathing Suit” by Louise Glück capture dark moments and thoughts in relationships while somehow making readers laugh, albeit remorsefully. Relationships can be difficult to navigate, and there will be hard times throughout any relationship that people have to work through. Glück’s poems showcase those moments …

Mel Brooks was a comedic producer that was constantly producing movies and films that allowed people to laugh in ways that they had never before. The amount of brilliancy that Mr. Brooks brought to his comedy concerning the films he produced was amazing and this was clearly shown in the …

Funny, twisted, and politically incorrect, Family Guy is an adult animated situation comedy show that consists of parents Peter and Lois, their children Chris, Meg, and Stewie, and their humanized dog Brian. Family Guy is anything but traditional. The show thrives on frustrating the audience’s expectations, using an unorthodox structure …

The function of humor in Woody Allen’s films is argued by many critics. This essay will focus on the comments of Ray Carney, Sam Girgus and Nancy Pogel. Carney argues that, “Comedy is the wound through which serious meaning bleeds out of Allen’s work.” (Carney, 14). He argues that there …

Write a five paragraph essay explaining the three kinds of irony, and giving at least one example of each kind of irony from the story, “The Ransom of Red Chief” The Humor of the Ransom of Red Chief “I’ll fix you” say the kid to Bill on page 486 from …

” ‘Humor,’ Mark Twain once wrote while in a different mode, ‘is only a fragrance, a decoration. If it is really to succeed in survival, it must surreptitiously teach and preach.’ “(qtd. Howells 211). Mark Twain exposes the evil in society by satirizing the institutions of religion, education and slavery. …

“Stephanie and Paul were so involved with each other that the rest of the family might as well have disappeared.” This observation, from the short story “humorous. The comedy begins when she develops an attraction to a boy and starts to obsess over him: “She wrote poems to Doug [, …

In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens describes Tellson’s Bank using the humor and satire. The Tellson’s Bank, a type, which actually existed in 1780, is described by Dickens as “an old fashioned, boastful, small, dark and ugly place with musty odour”(p.51). His derogation with this bank is obvious through …

She Stoops to Conquer does indeed satisfy the definition of satire given, “the use of instruments such as sarcasm, irony, wit, and humor in literary compositions that hold up follies and vices for criticism, ridicule, and scorn.” Within the play, Goldsmith uses the different characters and their relationships with one …

My current Year 12 class has been collaborating on an essay response to a previous HSC question for Standard Module A: Experience through Language – Distinctively Visual. We have been working with the short stories of Henry Lawson. Here is the near finished response – some paragraphs still need work. …