CLST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Luigi Pirandello, Eubulides, Sophocles
30 Sep 2017
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Humour and society in the ancient world, humour was grounded in society. Henri bergson his life work was seen as a response to the challenges posed by darwin in his origin of species can also be seen as a bunch of letters formed into words that contain meaning. Bergson cont"d a comic character is generally comic in proportion to his ignorance of himself. Hector reaches out to his son and the child is startled and leans away from him. Hector is wearing his helmet and both him and his wife start laughing the helmet is an example of something mechanical encrusted on the living since. Hector forgot to leave his work at the office and brought it home. Hector takes off the helmet and the child recognizes his father. Hector prays to zeus and the other gods for his son to be just as successful in war as him.
