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The Kugelmass Episode
Magical realism is a literary movement that blends realistic events with elements of the supernatural. In “The Kugelmass Episode,” Kugelmass is a typical guy who is bored with his life and...
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The Kugelmass Episode
In Woody Allen's short story "The Kugelmass Episode," the main character, Sidney Kugelmass, regards women as bores if he has to deal with them for any length of time. When the story begins, he is...
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The Kugelmass Episode
In “The Kugelmass Episode,” Woody Allen does not portray women in a very positive light. The main character, Kugelmass, speaks very disrespectfully of his wife. Within the story he says she has...
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The Kugelmass Episode
Woody Allen uses a story-within-a-story narrative to create complexity within his short story “The Kugelmass Episode.” Allen’s main character, Kugelmass, discovers a magician with a magic box...
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The Kugelmass Episode
I find the ending of "The Kugelmass Episode" very appropriate. Throughout the narrative, Kugelmass sees literature as a form of escape. He is looking for a way out of his banal world. �His...
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The Kugelmass Episode
Woody Allen’s “The Kugelmass Episode” is filled with stereotypes of both men and women. The main character, Kugelmass, completely fits the stereotype of a bored, middle-aged man going through...
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The Kugelmass Episode
Kugelmass’s attitude toward women is very negative. He views them only as objects to meet his desires. While considering and later having an affair, Kugelmass never considers his wife’s...
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The Kugelmass Episode
In “The Kugelmass Episode,” Woody Allen incorporates several elements of symbolism. One significant symbol is the magical box itself. At first the box appears to represent the fulfillment of...
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The Kugelmass Episode
In “The Kugelmass Episode,” Emma makes her values known through her actions. It is obvious throughout the story that she values adventure. A strange man shows up in her house and instead of...
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Woody Allen
In Woody Allen's short story "The Kugelmass Episode," the author's protagonist is described as a nondescript, emotionally vacant humanities professor, "unhappily married for the second time to an...
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The Kugelmass Episode
The main conflict in the story is Kugelmass's refusal to accept his own reality and his refusal to make his life better. He says that he wants something more exciting in his life, perhaps an...
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The Kugelmass Episode
Woody Allen's satirical story for the May 2, 1977, issue of "The New Yorker," a publication for which he wrote often, has become something of a classic in the narrow realm of intellectual mass...
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The Kugelmass Episode
"The Kugelmass Episode" is a farce. A farce is a comedy (which can be a fantasy as it is in this case) that uses word play, misdirection, and impossible situations to create humor. This story is...
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The Kugelmass Episode
I think that Allen is really skilled in bringing out how Emma's orientation is akin to a 20th Century one that Kugelmass himself illuminates. Kuglemass yearns to go back to Yonville to meet...
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The Kugelmass Episode
I think that Allen constructs all three characters as flat to reflect how their conditions are uniquely human. All of them feature a tendency to be dissatisfied with their current conditions of...
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The Kugelmass Episode
On face value, I would say that there is a fairly strong tact taken against women. Daphne and Emma are both shown to be women who are self- centered and incapable of being able to engage in any...
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The Kugelmass Episode
One of the fundamental meanings of the work is the idea that individuals who find dissatisfaction in their "real" lives and tend to romanticize the love of literature are bound for even more...
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The Kugelmass Episode
I think that one of the modern absurdities that Allen satirizes is the husband and wife relationship. Kugelmass is obviously in a dour relationship with Daphne. Neither one of them has the energy...
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The Kugelmass Episode
I am mean "Daphne" his second wife ....sorry
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The Kugelmass Episode
The most important thing to understand about the character of Kugelmass is that he is a fundamentally shallow and self-centered person. We can infer that he married Daphne because, at some earlier...
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The Kugelmass Episode
The original question had to be edited down. To a great extent, what makes Kugelmass a comic protagonist is that he features a sizable gap between reality and his own perception of self. His own...
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The Kugelmass Episode
I think that Allen's overall statement about modern individuals is that there is a tendency to romanticize that which we cannot have. Kugelmass romanticizes or places Emma on a pedestal. He seems...
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The Kugelmass Episode
theme: fiction and films is the line between art and life, between fantasy and reality. plot: "The Kugelmass Episode" opens with Kugelmass, a middle-aged, unhappily married humanities professor...
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The Kugelmass Episode
I think that one aspect of the significance in which women are displayed in Allen's work is that it raises questions about the socially defined roles that women must play. Allen constructs Emma...
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The Kugelmass Episode
In Woody Allen's humorous, schlemiel-like way, he points out the complex moral lesson that seeking to end disquietude with the vagaries and unpleasant disappointments of life in a wrong-headed...
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The Kugelmass Episode
"I had a dream last night. I was skipping through a meadow holding a picnic basket and the basket was marked "options". And then I saw there was a hole in the basket . . ." This quote means...
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The Kugelmass Episode
Ah, but I love this short piece! However, that wasn't the question. I'd say that a good essay could be built around the role of the comic, the literary, and of the farce, in contemporary society....
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The Kugelmass Episode
Woody Allen's "The Kugelmass Episode" ends with Kugelmass asking Persky to reactivate the cabinet foe another flight into illusionary happiness. Pershy warns taht the cabinet has been idle since...
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The Kugelmass Episode
Kugelmass has been magically transported into the story line of Madame Bovary and has been having an affair with Emma, the title character. In the novel, Emma is a dissatisfied housewife who has a...
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The Kugelmass Episode
Daphne does ask Kugelmass where he goes all the time and whether he has a "chippie stashed somewhere." However, I don't think she really suspects him of having an affair. He describes...
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The Kugelmass Episode
In a nutshell, Kugelmass (a stereotypical Jewish name), is an unsatisfied Humanities professor. He decides to have an affair since his second marriage is not a happy one. A magician has a Magic...
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The Kugelmass Episode
I'm not sure what you're asking, but since this is in the Kugelmass Episode group, I assume you're interested in Kugelmass and his situation. Basically, Kugelmass is bored. His life at home and...
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The Kugelmass Episode
Fantasy and realism absolutely contribute to the humor as a man who is dissatisfied with his "real" life seeks the adventure and excitement of a "fantasy". By being able to pop...
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The Kugelmass Episode
Verbal irony and dramatic irony are especially prevelant--his character is always saying things the reader doesn't expect to help promote his very Jewish persona. Perhaps the best example of...
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The Kugelmass Episode
While you have two fine answers already, it is important to note that Persky warns Kugelmass against using the machine again. The underlying note is be happy with what you have...in the present....
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The Kugelmass Episode
Secession from society would refer to withdrawing from society. Kugelmass isn't satisfied with his life, and he decides he needs the type of love that can only be found in romance novels, such as...