Setting
A typical setting of a comedy.
What is set in the real world of human experience?
The first step in a comic plot.
The hero/heroine struggles in a quest
Shows potential for good in all normal people.
Who is the comic hero?
Common images.
Spring, weddings, traditions, celebrations
The second step of the comic plot.
The blocking forces try to stop the hero
What the hero does to blocking forces.
What is outwits the blocking forces?
Give an example of Nonconformity in one of the texts we studied (movies and stories).
*Various Answers*
Boy gets girl, loses her, then wins her back at the end.
What is CLASSIC COMEDY?
Set in a typical American High School.
What is Ten Things I Hate About You?
The third part of a comic plot.
What "should happen" enters the picture
Characteristic of the hero in a comedy.
Give an example from one of our texts studied (movies and stories) that shows AVERAGE PEOPLE CAN WIN
** High Horse
**Cameron
Give an example of a Classic Comedy from a text (movie/story) we studied for this unit.
**High Horse
**Ten Things
**Much Ado
Set in a midwest city.
What is Inventing the Abbotts?
Explains "what should happen"
Fate, luck, freedom, right defeating wrong
Character or group that disagrees with the hero.
What are blocking forces?
Give an example of REBIRTH/RENEWAL as shown in one of the texts studied for class (movies and stories).
**Inventing the Abbotts
**Ten Things I Hate About You
**High Horse
**Much Ado...
Hero/Heroine struggles to reform society but can't. They manage to escape or survive, with HOPE for future success.
What is IRONIC COMEDY?
Set in Messina.
What is Much Ado About Nothing?
Final step in the plot of a comedy.
The hero/heroine succeeds in making a difference, or at least escapes the blocking forces.
Characteristics of Blocking Forces.
Can be a group (military, government, parents, etc), that may or may not be evil, inflexible, rigid, or over-authoritarian.
Give an example of Hope for a better society as shown in one of the texts we studied for class (movies/stories).
**Inventing the Abbotts
Society STARTS to reform, moving toward a world of freedom, hope, and success.
What is ROMANTIC COMEDY?