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[larryhammer]

Life axioms: High school (or secondary school in general) is fundamentally weird. Survival means negotiating its artificial and distorted society. This negotiating/navigating is the basic matter of a comedy of manners. That it's a comedy, rather than tragedy, comes naturally from the weirdness. (Though of course, that last sentence is a pure handwaving. If, as Aristotle argues, that in a tragedy. the hero's virtues turn out to be her/his flaws (this is known as the dramatic irony), then it follows that in a comedy, the hero's flaws turn out to be her/his virtues. Either can arise from the same situation — indeed, many farces could have become tragedies but for the climax. But my Muse is antic, if not comic.)

Discuss.

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---L.