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It is intended to provide a starting point for teachers in their thinking and planning by giving an introductory overview of how the text can be considered through the lens of comedy. There are some brief comments on how some aspects of the genre can be linked to the text, although teachers and students may well think of other relevant ideas. Not all of the textson the set texts list contain every element of the genre and that is reflected in this commentary. We hope that this will provide a useful starting point and a springboard for thinking about Wise Children in more detail. It is important to note that Wise Children is an examination set text for AS students only, although it can be studied by A-level students for the non-exam assessment (NEA) .  \nOverview  \nWise Children is a post-modern novel which is constantly celebrating and questioning imagination, art and comedy. In doing so, it draws attention to its own artifice. Its narrator is the seventy five year old Dora, the more literary of two twins who come from a theatrical family. Dora is a self-conscious storyteller and reminds readers intermittently that her memory is not as good as it once was and that she is uncertain of some of the details of which she writes. Her age is of course relevant to her unreliability but it is only one factor. Carter creates for her an extraordinary and bizarre life, a string of impossible relations with numerous sets of twins, a theatrical heritage and sequences of barely believable happenings. The story is told in a voice that is exuberant and bawdy, full of vitality. Dora celebrates life and exudes happiness. The novel contains so many aspects of the comedic genre that it would be hard to argue that any are absent. It is a novel about chances and hazards, the surnames of the principal families.  \nThe world of Wise Children is crazy, full of stretched coincidences, sharp and often humorously indecent wit, and comes at us like an elaborate theatrical experience. In telling the story, Carter embraces a variety of genres: drama, poetry, autobiography, romance, family saga, the gothic and magical realism. Literary allusions abound.  \nPlots and sub-plots and the fluidity of time  \nTypical of the comedic genre, Wise Children has a complicated plot. The story in the narrative present is relatively straightforward. It spans one day and moves  \nfrom morning, when Dora and Nora receive an invitation to Sir Melchior Hazard 100th birthday party, to night when the chaotic party takes place. In between, there are the dramatic events of their god daughter Tiffany's misfortunes and her supposed suicide. There are several complications in the events of the evening, but they are not as complicated as the back story in the rest of the novel which spans one century. As Dora is recounting her life over the single day of the party, she reminisces over her past life (and the lives of her parents and grandparents) telling the seemingly in-exhaustive exploits of her family in a breathless way.  \nIn the chaotic and busy story, time is never still. Neither is it easy to pin down. Time is forever going backwards and forwards. Art, of course, makes any kind of time travel possible. The grandfather clock which turns up, a legacy from the estate of their paternal grandmother Miss Euphemia Hazard, is an important symbol, often giving out the wrong hour, though not on Dora's and Nora's birthday. As it rightly strikes the hour of eight o clock, Dora sees it as a presentiment, exclaiming: 'Something's up! Granddad in the hall got the right time, for once!'  \nTheatrical Context  \nThe novel is structured with five chapters like five theatrical acts of a Shakespeare play. Significantly, all Shakespeare's comedies and romances are referenced or alluded to in the novel and those references help to inform its spir","cbCainjp1wM0CjAR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainjp1wM0CjAR","pdf",167652,"English","# Overview\n## Plots and sub-plots and the fluidity of time\n## Theatrical Context\n## Lampooning and/or celebrating old people?","[{\"question\":\"How does Dora’s narration affect the comedy in Wise Children?\",\"answer\":\"Dora is a self-conscious storyteller whose memory is uncertain, which creates a playful, self-aware tone. 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