Humor can
change the mood of any story. For example, try to guess the movie
with this description: A widowed fathers only son is taken away
from him, so he and mentally challenged women try to find him. This
movie is Finding Nemo. When audiences think about Finding Nemo,
they dont think about it like that, even though thats what the
movie is actually about. Audiences perceive the story as a
light-hearted and funny kids movie, when the main plot of the
movie is dark. This is true of many humorous stories, as well in
the
comedyplays
written by Shakespeare. The British poet used humor wisely in his
plays. He used comedy as a diversion from the dark and somber parts
of his stories. He also enabled audiences to laugh at circumstances
that violate morals. Through distraction and seemingly
inappropriate jokes, Merchant of Venice exhibits how Shakespeare
uses humor to make his audiences laugh at the misfortunes in his
comedy plays. Though the research wasnt compiled then, Shakespeare
fundamentally understood what makes people laugh. Distraction is a
major element of comedy, and there are two elements of distraction
that apply to most of these stories. One is a distraction from the
story itself, leading audiences to forget that a scene is serious
by adding a joke or some funny occurrence, or distracting audiences
from a main plot point in
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Remember while
examining this story that although Merchant of Venice doesnt seem
amusing to audiences today, it was for original audiences (McEvoy).
Today people might not consider Antonio to be comical, but back
then he displayed an element of anti-comic humor. Thats because
Antonio is a melancholy character who constantly announces about
how depressed he is (Tiffany). Antonio says in the
first
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