CLST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Murder 2, Town Meeting, Primitive Reason

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 205
• Professor: Cristiana Zaccagnino

Document Summary

Learning outcomes: communicate and exchange ideas with peers, analyze and explain why you think a given joke is humorous. These had to be kept in perfect balance called temperament , if one became more abundant than the others you"d be distemperanted or. Week one podcast part two: humour = characters. Three conclusions: humour resides in the personality rather than in plot, this explains the lack of plot in comedies, humour results in the loss of subtlety or flattening out or mechanization of behaviour. Comic figures are unaware of their own flatness: humour is associated by categorized types called characters etc. ) Comedies hinge on characters or stock types (grumpy old man, hypochondriac, Ex: those found shopping instead of at a town meeting would be fined much political power (regardless of what we would consider people"s rights) Citizens would be ostracized to refrain from getting too: humour can be aggressive.