Laughter In Crime And Punishment, The Invisble Man And Catch 22

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English

 

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Derrick J

 

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April 13, 2011

 

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This suggests that laughter has a potentially important role in exposing unjust social orders and freeing those who these orders were designed to discipline. Rather than using humor to delight then, humor can be used as a "disguised form of philosophical instruction" because of, as Ellison so eloquently puts it, "its ability to make us laugh at that which is normally unlaughable...
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provid[ing] an otherwise unavailable clarification of vision that calms the clammy trembling which ensues whenever we pierce the veil of conventions that guard us from the basic absurdity of the human condition" (Ellison, Extravagance 618). The laughter resulting from a not-funny rather serious situation, such as the racial tensions Ellison felt at the theater, thus has the power to liberate the repressed, just as Ellison was released from a controlled life (Huang)...
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