Funny characters

I'm going to discuss certain characters that I had forgotten, but that Mike brought back to my attention this morning. The short lived Prime Minister Brown (pages71-76) and the former King of Ruritania (pages 44-53). Both of these chracters are portrayed in an amusing way. Their fall from status is displayed for the reader in such a fashion that it becomes comical. The Prime Minister is seen placed in a situation in which he becomes the 'straight man' to Miss. Runcible's 'funny man'. Although the fact that James Brown loses his position and the respect of the people of England, the responses and reactions that both he and Miss. Runcible are what make this passage so comical. Through the ex-king, his attention to the minor details, such as the stolen pen (48) and his grand imagination, how he thought he'd spend a thousand pounds (53). Perhaps this just goes to show that people in this period, much as like today's society, found other people's misfortunes very amusing. More strangeness yet to come.