| Título: | Grafting Humour to Moral Situation: Configurations of Ideal Family |
| Autores: | DHILLON, MONIKA; Department of English Panjab University Chandigarh (INDIA) |
| Fecha: | 2013-10-29 |
| Publicador: | Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
| Tema: |
Barefoot in the Park, Family, Morality, Popular American Comedy, The Odd Couple. |
| Descripción: | The foremost purpose of comedy is to make us laugh, but simultaneously it deals with serious topics of universal and enduring concern. In the present paper, my attempt is to scrutinize the comic prowess of Neil Simon, the most successful comic playwright in the history of American theatre, and his new role as a popular artist in creating a moral rhetoric for the vast middle-class audience who cannot find a sense of belonging in the American society threatened by excessive individualism and youth revolt. American society is fighting hard to save ‘family’ as the basic unit of society. Based on the analysis of his early popular comedies Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple, the present paper will examine how Simon applies the American tradition of comedy in his plays to show the changing paradigms of American family. His approach is didactic and in the ideal portrayal of the American family he is influenced by primetime comedies. The function of the earlier morality plays has been taken over by television and popular theatre. I will analyze how the social implications of America as a nation are utilized by Simon to create the rhetoric of an ideal family. Both the plays celebrate ‘family’ as a stable social institution and its importance in the private and public space. An ideal family becomes a prerequisite for an ideal suburbia. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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