"Philosophers and critics have often talked of the paradox of horror and the pardox of tragedy. Why do we eagerly seek ou art forms that arouse unpleasant emotions in us like pity, sadness, and fear? I think that, for at least certain forms of comedy, there is an equally important paradox of comey. Why do we seek out art that makes us laugh at the plight of unfortunate people in a world without redemption? (...) The Simposons' use of heart-warming family endings should be seen as its attempt to paper over the paradox of comedy that it exemplifies so well."
Carl Mathieson, "The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life". In Maasik and Solomon (eds.) Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers. 6th ed. Boston / NY: Bedford / St Martin's. 2009, p. 294
The ancient Greeks used in their plays the depiction of scenes containing portrayals of everyday life with its share of death, passion, treason, slaughter, laughter and much more we can think of. They did that so that people could enter the state of catharsis: a way of releasing from the sufferings of life, of fighting something that could not be fought in the real world, of perceiving oneself and make fun of the situations that would be their own.
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