Volume : VI, Issue : VII, July - 2016

REALISTIC HUMOR — RIDICULING HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN STEPHEN LEACOCK’S WORKS

Dr. L. Baskaran, R. V. Lakshmi

Abstract :

 Stephen Leacock an English born Canadian writer expressed his artistic talent to satirize the ridiculous behavior of society and its people where a man like the narrator confronts fear of facing the dentist to remove his tooth in his famous short story ‘The Dentist and the Gas’. Humor flows from the strange treatment of the dentist. This paper aims to focus on the mental agony a man faces when he visits the dentist for treatment

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Dr. L. BASKARAN, R.V.LAKSHMI REALISTIC HUMOR — RIDICULING HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN STEPHEN LEACOCK¥S WORKS Indian Journal of Applied Research,Volume : 6 | Issue : 7 | July 2016

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