The Rover, a product of its age therefore, exhibits all these characteristics: heroic language with sporadic rhyming couplets, songs, masquing scenes of carnival and dancing, and the tragicomic antipathy between the ideal and the pragmatic. ... In the tradition of medieval morality plays and Tudor interlude, restoration comedy characters name personify them, fixing them in one dimension. ...

• Word Count: 8176
• Approx Pages: 33
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Humour is employed in a variety of ways in Catch-22 and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Heller and De Bernieres uses the same background theme; However, though contrasts are apparent in their portrayal of war, their use of humour is employed differently also. In Catch-22, the humour is interwoven throughout the majority of the novel and is mainly the instrument of satire. In Captain Corelli's Mandolin, humour is used mainly to defuse situations of their threatening implications, providing the reader with breathing space when needed between certain events. Their main differences are ...

• Word Count: 2754
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

That this was accepted by many, was partly because the war was seen as an adventure, and perhaps because the last war where there was mass recruitment was almost one hundred years previous, the majority of those fighting in the interlude being well-trained career soldiers. ...

• Word Count: 6124
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate