Hello friends, here is my presentation on Anti-sentimental comedy with reference to school for scandal.

2. M. K. Bhavnagar University
Department of English
SEM: 1
● Name : Ravina Parmar
● Roll No : 27
● Date : 5 October 2019
● Batch : (2019-2021)
● Paper Name : Neo-classical literature
● Enrollment No : 2069108420200031
● Submitted to : Dr. Dilip barad, Department of English
● Topic : what are the characteristics of anti-
sentimental comedy with reference to school for
scandal ?

3. ● What is Anti-sentimental comedy :
● Reaction against sentimental comedy.
● This is a high polished restoration comedy.
● Very near to satire.
● Evokes laughter and vulgarity.
● More famous then sentimental comedy.
● Is a form of comedy that satirised the manners
and affection of contemporary society.
● Deals with upper class society.

4. Richard Sheridan Oliver Goldsmith

5. ●Characteristics :
● Laughter.
● Farce
● Irony
● Wit
● Disguise

6. ● Wit : clever and usually funny or intelligent
humour
● Laughter : laughing on herself or himself.
● Farce: entertaining the audience through
situations that are highly exaggerated.
● Irony : whatever said by character that in
opposite meaning.
● Disguise :to modify the manners or
appearance of a person through with wig,
makeup, costume or other way.

7. ●The school for scandal :
● “Teaching manner
without manners. “
● The story of two
brothers.
● The purpose of the play
is satirised the manners
and affection of the
upper class .

8. ● Characteristics of anti-sentimental comedy
reference to the school for scandal :
● Wit : This intelligent humour we find that
quarrel between sir Peter and lady teazle. The
character of snake and lady sneerwell
represent wit.
● Laughter : In this play the character of lady
sneerwell and other man and women's style
of speaking, costume, hair style that makes
us laughing.

10. - Sheridan laughing on society 's selfishness
,envy, hypocrisy of that time.
- Pokes fun at contemporary journalism,we
have satirical reference to gossip columns of
the newspapers.
● Farce : In this play we find that many scene
showed situation that is highly exaggerated.
- Practical jokes
- Vulgure speech

11. ● Iorny : every situation's actual meaning is
different.
- Harsh satire on that society.
- Character's name and sername also ironic
meaning :
Sneerwell
Snake
Serface.
● Disguise : the character Joseph serface
disguised his real personality with many
characters like Mr. Peter, lady teazle etc

12. ● Every person hide his / her real self.
● Disguise is the main aspects of writers.
● Make satire on superficiality of society.
● Sir Peter refers to him as ‘ a man of sentiment
‘ or the sentimental is used in this in a
different connotations.