Today’s lecture is about "Comedy--from situation to character"
the icon of the situation comedy (si-com) is: Plautus’ Menaechmi
the symbol of the character comedy is: Moliere’s Tartuffe

first, what’s the defition of "Comedy"?
everyone speaked out the idea of comedy
Lee (I) said: The way to warn people’s bad behavior in positive way.
Comedy could turns out to be Tragedy. For instance, when I read Menaechmi, I firmly believed it could be the sad story if the playwright had the intention and action.

Professor said
Comedy and Tragedy are the sides of a coin
喜劇和悲劇是一體兩面
The representation of temporary victory over the obstables of life in order to celebrate capacity and endure.
喜劇是暫時的,美好的結尾都是故事的開始.像婚禮般,歡樂過後,真正的婚姻生活才開始
除此之外,就當事人而言,喜劇的認知(recognition)不如悲劇
悲劇英雄會體悟自己因個性缺失而犯下大錯,並從其中懺悔負責
on the other hand,喜劇人物卻沒因自己的錯而悲慘,通常在巧合下,錯誤沒造成損失.也因此,沒有傷害人就少了反省與覺醒
然而相較悲劇的文化特性高,喜劇是universal

為什麼人们喜歡喜劇?
除了我們是旁觀者,不是被嘲笑的當事者外,喜劇具有脫離現實的秩序井然
the relief from the present force
it’s the anti-social genre.

Comedy is a genre and it gots lots of forms:
satire
situation comedy
farce
romantic comedy
burlesque

Devices within the forms:
transgression
contrast, opposite
exaggeration
extreme behavior
physical humor
language

Plautus: Menaechmi
the new comedy:
the standard plot
the stock characters
no female voice but male fantacies
upper class values
the tatto of the society: ex the ownership of slaves
the plot sets up the situations

Moliere: Tartuffe
focus on the characters
examine the dominant passion and destroy it
look the characters in the obssessed way
The Greek culture and Comedia’de’ Arte influence
In Moliere’s play, all characters hardly integrated cos of too much themselves. The superficial recognition coudn’t unite them.They don’t reform
some little background of Tartuffe. About the king and the religion Secret Society.
The females figures in the play are positive forces. They got the forward thinking. Someone said " The man who tries to take women’s natural rights suffer’
Everyland has Tartuffe