Difference between Sentimental and Anti-sentimental Comedy

    What is satire? 

            The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize, people’s stupidity or vices, novel etc.

       Satire is a genre of literature and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcoming are held.

      What is satire comedy?

       Satire comedy is a type of humor that makes fun or ridicules. This is done with the intent of shaming an individual or society into improvement. Irony and sarcam are very common in satire.

       This comedy ridicules political policies or philosophical erom the accepted social order. It is comedy of common man. There is comedy of comedy of common man. There is laughter in our own mistakes.

      Ridicule 

            The subjection of someone or something to mockery and derision. It should failure a fair amount of satiric ridicule.

       When you ridicule someone, you mock or make fun of them. They become the object of your ridicule or mockery. Your bad behavior might bring ridicule on your parents, who raised you to know better.

As the function of comedy is, in poetry, to expose to ridicule the “vicious” or ‘foolish’.

      Anti-sentimental comedy

            Ant-sentimental comedy is comedy of manners less the vulgarity and profanity!

      Wit

1 Wit is a form of intelligent humor, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny.

2 A wit is a person skilled at making clever and funny remarks.

      Disguise

1 Give someone or oneself, a different appearance in order to conceal one’s identity.

2 A disguise can be anything which conceals or change a person’s physical appearance, including wig, glasses, makeup, costume or other ways. Camouflage is type disguise for people, animals and objects. Hats, glasses change in their type or wig, plastic surgery, and makeup are also used.

               One of the primary functions of comic satire is to expose false appearances. And this is why disguise is so important to dramatic comedy.

               We notice the prevalence of images of disguise of thing not being what they seen, in all of these situations.

              Anti-sentimental comedy is also called as the comedy of manners.  

Comedy of manners

             The comedy of manners was originated in the new comedy of the Greek Menander and developed by the Roman dramatists Plautus and Terence in the third and second centuries B.C. This type of comedy is high polished in Restoration comedy. Here, we can standards and decorum.

             Comedy of manner, amusing, cerebrate form of dramatic comedy that design and often dried the manner and affection of a contemporary society. A comedy of manner is anxious with social control and the questions of whether or not character meets certain social standards. Often the covering social standards is morally atomic but critical , the plot of such a comedy , usually concerned with an dirty love affair or similarly odious matter , is subordinate to the play’s frail atmosphere , witty dialogue, and bitter commentary on human frailty.

             The comedy of manner , which was usually written by sophisticated authors for member of their own coterie social class , has historically thrived in periods and societies that combined material fortune and moral compass such was the case in ancient Greece when Menander in angulated new comedy, the initiator of comedy manners . Meander’s smooth style, elaborate plots, and stock character were imitated by the roman poets Plautus and Terence, whose comedies were widely known and copied during the renaissance. 

The Rivals

             Sheridan’s purpose in writing ‘The Rivals’ was to entertain the audience making them laugh and not by make them shed tears. ‘The Rival’ was written as a pure and simple comedy. Though there are certainly a few sentimental scenes in this play yet they are regarded as a apology of sentimentality. The scene between Falkland and Julia are satire on the sentimental comedy which was in fashion in those days and against with Sheridan revolted.

             A brief examination of these would clearly reveal that Sheridan’s intention was to prod fun at the sentimental comedy of the time. We find both Falkland and Julia campy. The true character of Falkland is indicate to us by Absolute‘s description of him as the “most teasing, captious, incorrigible lover”. Falkland own description of of his state of mind about his beloved. Julia also makes him appear absurd. He says that every hour is a demand for him to feel afraid on Julia’s account. It rains, he feels afraid let some stream should have freeze her. If the wind is sharp, he feels afraid let a boorish blow should skeptically affect her health. The heat of the noon and evening may expose her health. All this is funny and certainly not to be taken seriously. Sheridan is here banter the excessive solicitude and concern which an over sentimental lover like Falkland experience when separated from his beloved. Sheridan seems to be pleading for mental calmness even in the case of a burning lover.

            Sheridan continues to portray Falkland in the same critical manner. When acres appear and is questioned by absolute regarding Julia is activities in the boonies, Acers replied that Julia’s has been enjoying herself thoroughly and been having a cheery time now, a normal lover would feel hugely happy to learn this. We expect the same reaction from Falkland because he had assured absolute that he would feel happy “beyond measure” if he were positive that Julia was flourishing and affable. But his actual reaction is quite different and greatly gladdens us by its crap.

            In one interview again shows him a ridiculous light. He subjects to a test in order to convince himself of the frankness of love. The author’s dimension to which an over sentimental lover can go and the author expects us to laugh at this kind of lover.

            Even Julia suffers from an extreme sentimentally and she is made to appear absurd and ridicules for that reason. The manner in which she described her lover to Lydia shows the kind of mentality that she has. In the two interviews with Faukland Julia is again over flowing with emotion. We smile at the way she behaves; we are diverted by her balance of emotion, we bogus at the subject edition to her lover and her repeated pursuit to make up with him.

           The manner in which the other characters have been interpreted is also data of the anti sentimental character of the play. Captain absolute is a practical man and though he accepts the name and status of Ensign Beverley, he would not like to forfeit the rich class which Lydia will bring him. Mrs.Malaprop is current, practical woman whose attitude to marriage is business like Sir Anthony is a practical worldly man. Bob acre is a country peasant with no romantic or sentimental vanity but toward the end of the play he shows that he is more practical than anybody else.

    Sentimental Comedy

    Definition of Dictionary

Expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity or nostalgia: a sentimental song.

         Sentimental comedy is a kind of comedy that achieved some popularity with respectable middle class audience in the 18^th century. In contrast with the fine doubt of English restoration comedy, it showed virtue repaid by calm happiness; it plots, usually involving unbelievably good middle class couple, emphasized pathos, rather than humor.  Pioneered by Richard steel in the funeral and more fully in the conscious covers, it flourished in middle century with the French comedies larmoyante and in such plays on hug key’s false delicacy.  The pious moralizing of this tradition, which survived into 19^th century melodrama, was opposed in the 1770s by Sheridan and goldsmith, who attempted a partial return to the comedy of manners.

         A sentimental comedy is comedy that simply address itself to the beholder ‘s’ love of goodness rather than humor. It shows the morality of its situations and the virtue of character.

         Sentimental comedy, a dramatic genre of the 18^th century, denoting plays in which middle class protagonist beautifully overcomes a series of moral experience. Such comedy aimed at creates tears rather than laughter. Sentimental comedies reflected contemporary philosophical conception of human as inbredly good but capable of being plumb awry through bad example. By an appeal to his noble sentiments, a man could be reformed and set back on the path of virtue. Although the plays accommodated character whose natures seemed overly virtuous, and whose trials too easily confirm, they were still accepted by audience as truthful representation of human, condition. Sentimental comedy had its roots in early 18^th century tragedy, which had tone of morality similar to that of sentimental comedy but had sub line character and subject matter than sentimental comedy.

What does sentimental mean?

Sentimental is a thought, view or attitude particularly one based essentially on emotion Instead of reason. The term may also refer to the expression of deep and sensitive feeling particularly in art and literature.

Sentimental is an expression of feeble emotion, memories, special events, music and many other significant things can make a person sentimental.

             The sentimental comedy did not last long. The sentimental soon decline into sentimentality. This change gradually patent itself in the beginning of sensibility to replace with and immortality in the comedy. In this sentimental comedy of colley Cibber and Steele there was habitual morality and sentimentality in place of shameful of the restoration comedy. This dramatist dealt with the problems of, action, family and marriage in a tone that will no longer shock manners and by virtue of tears they contributed to the elucidation of souls. This dramatist aimed at instruction some moral lessons by cure anguish innocent virtue to happiness and converting cheat into good character. Thus these comedies lost the true spirit of comedy. There are no animation and innocent glee created by wit and fun. Instead, these plays served the false morality of the middle class. 

            The culture of sentiment and sensibility in eighteen century Europe is a phenomenon of such proportion that it is often viewed as epoch defining. It can be also defined as over inelegance of emotion and pathos and sympathy. It is depends upon individual. We can also see that it has relation with pathos. in Greek it means passion, or suffering or deep feeling but in modern criticism it is applied in a much more limited way to a scene or passage that is designed to evoke the feeling or tenderness, pity or sympathetic sorrow from the audience.