《华伦夫人的职业》中的幽默艺术--毕业论文.doc

【标题】《华伦夫人的职业》中的幽默艺术 【作者】金 小 桠 【关键词】?幽默艺术；??萧伯纳；??社会作用 【指导老师】唐 玲 【专业】英语教育 【正文】1. Introductions1.1 HumorWhen we speak of humor what idea can we have? In our daily life we can say that a joke will make you feel humorous. Some people think that It brings people a happy life, and it can relax the tension or the predicament. Also it is the higher condiments for our health lives. And other people think that humor is a weapon, which only belongs to those people who are very clever. Often they can use it to defeat their opponents, express their viewpoints of the world, and make people know the world more profoundly. But what is humor? The response of laughter is based on two general situations. Humor either plays a trick on the mind or it paints a picture, which is ludicrous or incongruous. Jokes are the first type; they play a pleasant trick on your mind. When something is ludicrous, you visualize a situation in which the elements are in some way incongruous. The minute you try to dissect a joke, or explain it, it ceases to be funny. You can study humor down to the most tenuous theories, reading what scientists have discovered about it through the years to the point where it may ruin your enjoyment of laughter. Dr. Jarvis shares two definitions of humor with us. The first is?“a painful thing told playfully”. The second is?“tragedy separated by time and space”. Note that both definitions treat humor as a serious thought viewed in a light manner. Ever heard someone say,?“I laughed so hard I nearly cried”? Humor deals with serious subjects and is close to pathos: an emotion of sympathetic pity. Think about the old gag of someone slipping on a banana peel. Such an accident usually elicits a laugh. We might giggle or snicker when someone else takes a flyer. I would like to point out that in much, even most, humor, there are likely to be several lines of tension-building and tension-relief operating simultaneously and consequentially. A simple joke, for example, may incl