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In What Ways Do you Consider 'Decline and Fall' To Be A Comic Novel?
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In What Ways Do you Consider 'Decline and Fall' To Be A Comic Novel? Evelyn Waugh has wrote the book 'Decline and Fall' as a statement of what he felt was wrong with the English society in the 1920s. This is reflected through his book using a very dry and ironic humour. The novel is very much satirical, with the main character, Paul Pennyfather, satirising the English culture. In order to show this, I have chosen two events in the book, and I will focus on how Evelyn Waugh makes them comic. The two I have chosen are the sports day and the restoration of King's Thursday house. To set the scene, in the first part of the novel, Paul Pennyfather had been dismissed from the Oxford University he had been studying at. He needed a job, so he went to work as a teacher at a public school. Unfortunately, he was...
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