Question

The drama "Box and Cox" is a farce. Explain.
*5 marks​

Answer 1

Answer:

All the three dramatic personae namely Box, Cox and Mrs Bouncer exhibit the traits of caricatures and not real life like characters. Their every action, every word they speak is enough to evoke hilarious laughter. Their moves are ridiculous and their dealings simply hyperbole. It is really ridiculous even to harbour the idea of letting out a single room to two tenants simultaneously and not to be found out or caught hold of. Yet Mrs Bouncer the protagonist embarks upon it, is finally found out and put to shame. The dialogues bringing about the finale of the farce evokes hilarious laughter thus fulfilling the purpose of its creation.

Mr. Cox’s getting his hair cut only to discover later that all the hats in his wardrobe wobble round is another example of hyperbole making the onlookers laugh over his all the exaggerated remarks about hats, haircuts, etc.

Answer 2

The drama "Box and Cox" is a farce:

• A farce is a type of low comedy designed to provoke laughter through highly exaggerated cartoon of people in silly situations.

• Box and cox is written by John Maddison. He was an English playwright and he specialized in one-act farces.
• His most famous farce is Box and Cox among his comic dramas, pantomimes and other theatre plays.
• The characters in Box and Fox which are Box, Cox and Mrs. Bouncer are dramatic and depict caricatures and not real life characters.
• There actions and dealings are ridicule which invoke laughter with every word they speak.

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