Week 4: Response to Student Discusssions

Ashford 5: - Week 4 - Discussion 2

Lori Smith

2/9/2017 10:21:48 PM

Comedy


  • Identify a conflict that you see present in Mistaken Identity: A Ten Minute Play (please refer to the list of conflicts)

Individual versus, Self and Individual versus Society, and Individual versus Nature

  • Respond to one of the following, providing examples or quotations from the play to illustrate your ideas:

  • Describe a key conflict in the play and how it corresponds to a character’s development.

Kali, a young woman struggling to cope with life; being a lesbian, and an Indian Hindu living in England and the struggles she falls victims to as a result of oppression, domination or discrimination that society shows toward gay and lesbians.

KALI: "Yes, this makes loads of sense at the end of the day. I am a lesbian who has to date every Hindu bloke in England until her brother gets so desperate that he sets her up with a Cowboy" (Clugston, 2014).

  • Describe two key literary techniques and elements and techniques of drama that aid in developing the conflict.

Conflict: The struggle that shapes the plot in a story and Climax : The crisis or high point of tension that becomes the story’s turning point—the point at which the outcome of the conflict is determined.

Metaphor: A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between one object and another that is different from it.

  • Explain how and why the conflict in this comedy is different from and/or similar to the conflict explored in tragedy.

In essence, tragedy is the mirror image or negative of comedy. For instead of depicting the rise in circumstances of a dejected or outcast underdog, tragedy shows us the downfall of a once prominent and powerful hero (Bond, 1985).

The conflict in this comedy is different from tragedy no one dies because of the result of the issues faced from the main character.

References

Clugston, R. W. (2014). Journey into literature (2nd ed.) [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

Tragedy And Comedy DL Hirst - Edward Bond, 1985 – Springer https://scholar.google.com/scholar