That was the most execrable piece of tripe I've read since someone turned an orangutan loose on a word processor and called the result 'Left Behind' [nod to the Hitch].
Wrong, wronger, wrongest. Suffering is the ESSENCE of comedy. Think of a funny scene you've read in a book, or saw in a play or a film. There is ALWAYS suffering - that's what gets the biggest laugh. We laugh because it isn't happening to us. Mel Brooks said it best: 'Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when YOU fall down an open manhole and die.'
And you're as wonky about tragedy. The essence of dramatic tragedy is undeserved suffering. Oedipus. Juliet. Willy Loman. Horrors visited on those who don't deserve them. Granted that several other of the dramatis personae may suffer, they don't do so in the same degree as the object of the tragedy, or their suffering takes the form of sympathy for the main character.
My advice to you it to take what you've written, fold it until it is nothing but corners, and shove it in your oubliette.
Boru
Quote:In comedy nobody suffers except the bad guys if there are any.
Wrong, wronger, wrongest. Suffering is the ESSENCE of comedy. Think of a funny scene you've read in a book, or saw in a play or a film. There is ALWAYS suffering - that's what gets the biggest laugh. We laugh because it isn't happening to us. Mel Brooks said it best: 'Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when YOU fall down an open manhole and die.'
And you're as wonky about tragedy. The essence of dramatic tragedy is undeserved suffering. Oedipus. Juliet. Willy Loman. Horrors visited on those who don't deserve them. Granted that several other of the dramatis personae may suffer, they don't do so in the same degree as the object of the tragedy, or their suffering takes the form of sympathy for the main character.
My advice to you it to take what you've written, fold it until it is nothing but corners, and shove it in your oubliette.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
