Anti Sentimental Comedy with the reference with she stoops to Conqure

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 Name               :      Jeel  J. Vyas

 Roll no             :      15

Paper no          :      2. Neo- Classical                                       literature.

Class                  :     M.A. sem 1

Topic                 :     Anti sentimental comedy with the reference with she stoops to conquer.

Enrolment no  :                 2069108420190045

College              :      Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English.

Email id             :          jeelvyas15@gmail.com

Submitted        :       Department  of English M.K.B.University .

Introduction :

                There are different types of genres in literature. Like essay, biography, speech, drama, poetry, tragedy, comedy etc. Here in this first I am talking about the what is comedy it’s different type and then idea of Anti-sentimental comedy.

Comedy :

             Comedy means professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. There are different types of comedy we find in literature.

·        Black comedy.

·        Burlesque.

·        City comedy.

·        Comedy of humour.

·        Comedy of manners (Anti-sentimental comedy )

·        Commedia of Dell'arte.

·        Farce.

·        Parody.

·        Restoration comedy.

·        Romantic comedy.

·        Satire.

·        Sentimental comedy.

·        Theatre of the Absured.

·        Tragic comedy.

The idea of Anti-sentimental comedy comes with the contras of sentimental comedy. So, when we talk about the Anti-sentimental comedy we have to clear the idea of sentimental comedy.

Sentiment comedy:

                     In the 18^th century this form become popular. Sentiment comedy related to our emotions. It is connected with our feeling like sorrow, pity and compassion, sympathy. This play aimed to produce tear rather then laughter and reflected contemporary philosophical conception of human as inherently good but capable of being led astray by bad example.

             The main idea of sentimental comedy to appealing to Noble sentiment of man. Through this it wants to reformed and set back on the path of virtue to man.

Anti-sentimental comedy:

           Anti-sentimental comes to existence in the reaction against the sentimental comedy. It is also as “ comedy of manners”. The pioneer of Anti-sentimental comedy is Oliver Goldsmith.

Characteristics of Anti-sentimental comedy:

·        Amusing intergue and situation.

·        Satirical comedy and irony.

·        Marriage for love and marriage for Money.

·        Wit of language and verbal dialogue.

·        Farce and disguise.

·        Emotions have boundaries.

Oliver Goldsmith :

                  Oliver Goldsmith born in November 10, 1728 in Ballymahon in Ireland. Because of his  economic situation he studied   in college which allows to poor student to study in exchange for work.

                    His first book “ citizen of the world” proud him a notable success. Goldsmith wrote various style and genres. One of his most famous work “The Deserted Village”.  A poem  laments the loss of Britain's rural lifestyle. He criticized the sentimental comedy in his essay on the theatre or  a comparison between laughing and sentimental comedy.

Anti-sentimental comedy is one does not use emotions to evoke reflection in an audience. Instead of Anti-sentimental comedy  will use cynicism to achieve it’s massage.

Anti-sentimental comedy representing complex and sophisticated code of behaviour in current society. We fit's plot usually revolves around interested being masked by decorous Oliver Goldsmith’s “ she stoops to conquer”.

She stoops to conquer :

            She stoop to conquer is an anti-sentimental comedy. Also know with the title “ The Mistake Of Night”. First performed in London in 1773.

Character :

Marlow :  protagonist, lover of Kate, son of Mr. Charles Marlow.

Kate :  Daughter of Mr. Hardcastle, close to his  Father, lover of Marlow, Wearing a simple clothes.

Mr. Hardcastle : father of Kate, old fashioned.

Mrs. Hardcastle : greedy lady, highly fashionable.

Constance: nephew of Mrs. Hardcastle, had a jewellery  box, lover of Hastings.

Hastings : friend of Marlow, lover of Constance.

Tom : son of Mrs. Hardcastle from her first husband.

Me. Charles Marlow : father of Marlow, clear  everything.

Summery :

             Marlow and Hastings lost their way. They were going to  Mr. Hardcastle's  house see his daughter Kate fir marriage. On the way when they lost their road they stopped to the bar named “ The three pigeons”. Where Tom met them and recognized both. Tom tell them that their destination is far so on the way they have to stop in one inn.

              The house of Mr. Hardcastle is look a like a inn. When Marlow first meet Kate he feels shy to talk with he didn’t see her face. On next day when Kate is in simple clothes then he able to talk to her comfortable. He thinks 5hat Kate is waitress. Marlow has a problem that he want feel comfortable with high class girls.

              After talking with him Kate is also fall in love with him. So she decide not to revile her truth. On the other side Hastings falls in love with constance. She tells him that Mrs. Hardcastle wants that she marry with her son Tom. Like Tom also don’t want to marry with her. So he decided to help them.

           On the other hand Marlow insult Mr. Hardcastle  because  he thinks that Mr. Hardcastle is a manager of inn. After this insult Mr. Hardcastle   desired that he will not  marry his daughter with  Marlow. Marlow's father deside to go to house of Me. Hardcastle.

          Constance and Hastings has decided  to runaway France. Tom promises them to give jewellery box that box Hastings give to Marlow. But in his love by mistake he gave to Mrs. Hardcastle. Constance and Hastings decided that they revile their relationship and apologize to Mr. And Mrs. Hardcastle.

              After arrival of Marlow's father the truth of Kate is recipe in front of  him. Kent prove that Marlow truly loves her. And also a nice guy so her Father allow their marriage.

Characteristics of Anti-sentimental comedy can be found in she stoop to conquer :

               We can  see that she stoops to conquer  is an best example of anti-sentimental comedy. Because we find all the characteristic of Anti – sentimental in this play. Which I explain below

1.  Amusing intrigue and situation :

             First characteristic of anti-sentimental comedy is amusing intrigue  and situation. This we  can see in this play. In  this play se found consist intrigue by Tony. His tricks against Marlow and Hastings. This trucks are the principal source of wit and humour. We found Troy's intrigue give motion to drama. He introduced his house as an inn and Mr. Hardcaste as an innkeeper. These tricks contribute lot to the comic impression of the play. Marlow mistake his future father-in-law as an innkeeper and orders him.

           These is also one more trick played by Troy and miss.constance  is an orphan and live with her aunt. Mrs. Hardcastle’s wants that Tony marry with Constance. Because she has a jewel box. But Constance loves a Hastings. Tony and Hastings played that they love each other. Then Troy still jewels box from his mother and help Constance and Hastings to unite.

2.  Satirical comedy and Irony  :

                Second characteristic of Anti-sentimental comedy is satirical comedy. We can also found this in play. We found satire on class conflict in the play. Marlow is satirized as an English preoccupation and emphasis on class distinction. He is not comfortable with polite class but he is comfortable with barmaids. He want able to when she meet her for marriage but he can easily able to talk when she comes as servant.

            Irony can also find in the play. When she talk of Mrs.Hardcastle with Hastings about high society in London.

3.  Marriage for love and marriage for Money :

           One of the important characteristic is a marriage for love and marriage for money.  We  also find this thing in  this story. Tony's mother Mrs.Hardcastle wants that Tony Merry with Constance because she has jewellery box. But Constance loves Hastings and Tom also help them to get married. Mrs.Hardcastle  wants Constance marry with Tom because of that jewellery box. Like this we find money is a reason of marriage.

              Constance marry Hastings because of their love towards each other. The marriage of Marlow and Kate also because of love. Like this we find both love and Money is a reason of marriage.

4.  Wit of language and verbal dialogue:

         In act 3 we find that Tiny and Hastings are talking about the Jewell.  Tony  steal Jewell and passes on them. And then speak,

                                 “ ask me no question and I'll tell you no fibs”

                    The meaning of the line is “ If one ask a strange or nonsensical question the listener will probably respond with a similar strange or nonsensical answer”.  We can see here wit of language and verbal dialogue.

      5.Farce and disguise :

          Many critics have describe she stopped to conquer a comedy characterize broad humour and outlandish incident as a  Face. The plot of the play is Classical farce. Few character build crystalline frameworks of ideas. 

               Disguise is also important characteristic of anti-sentimental comedy. Here we find when Kate come to know that Marlow is feeling uncomfortable when she dress as the upper class lady. Next morning she dress her self as a simple. Then Marlow notice her and talk freely with her. So, Kate do not tell her that with whom Marlow come to marry that girl is Kate herself. This thing is revels when Marlow's father come.

                   In this way we find farce and disguise both in the play she stoops to conquer.

6.  Emotions have boundaries :

               There are three most commonly mentioned categories of believe and boundaries. And they are

1. Physical  :personal space and touch consideration.

                 2.  Mental : thought and opinion.

                 3. Emotional : feeling.

                                 These boundaries are guidelines, rule,  or limits that person    create to identify reasonable , safe and permissible them and how they will respond when someone passes those limits.

                               In this we find the emotional boundaries in the character of Marlow. We see that when Kate was in her original upper class lady he wants able to talk with her comfortably and also don’t allow her to near him. But as soon as she thinks her that she is waitress he talk freely with her and also fall on love with her.

Conclusion :

                  To  conclude we can say that she stoop to conquer is the best example of Anti-sentimental comedy. We find all the six  characteristics of anti-sentimental comedy in the play she stoop to conquer.