Bewitched Analysis

Evaluating Sitcoms Bewitched Bewitched is a point comedy, produced in the year 1964 and ring in America. The main characters include Samantha and Darrin Stephens. The program Bewitched conveys the premise to not make assumptions ab push through someone instantly because there may be more to a person then what meets the eye. The pilot of Bewitched begins with the orientation, establishing the positioning of the newly wed couple. Darrin is portrayed as the breadwinner of the family, and Samantha is presented as the meliorate wife, which fulfils either(prenominal) of the criteria of a typical suburban housewife.The complication is then introduced when Samantha reveals shes a witch. The complication is followed by a series of events, which begin with an invitation to Shelias -Darrins ex-fiance- house. At arrival they ar two greeted with a warm welcome, save soon things begin to get messy. Shelia starts to belittle Samanthas appearance, making her uneasy and annoyed but to mak e matters worse Shelia begins to flirt with Darrin whilst occasionally glancing all over at Samantha, in hallow to her to make her touch sensation insignificant and jealous.Samantha comes into involution with herself in whether or not to use conjuring trick, but she decides using magic is the only way to go even after promising Darrin no more witch craft Samantha uses her magic in order to study Shelia a well learnt lesson, to keep her hands of her man. The complication is soon resolve with Darrin and Samantha returning home to discuss her behaviour and the use of magic. Darrin becomes upset with Samantha for break of serve her promise, but as any wife would do, Samantha almost instantly apologises and tells Darrin she wont use magic again.The coda is illustrated in the end of the episode, contempt Darrins request Samantha finishes by saying, Maybe I can putter off, hence staying true to herself and not letting anyone change who she is. There are aspects of this storylin e, which are plausible where the audience sees the common character/figure of the alluring ex-fiance/girlfriend. The credibility is generated with the behaviour of Samantha and Shelia.In Shelia wanting to make Samantha jealous and herself the centre of management the plot is made credible, but the audience is then drawn to feel that the plot is more relatable and convincing with Samanthas response to the situation, feeling annoyed, envious and angry. The relationship between Darrin and Samantha portrayed in the episode is clearly safe and essenceate. The Bewitched pilot reveals numerous characteristics of both Darrin and Samantha. Darrin is seen as the stereotypical hubby, with his powerful and demanding personality, which demonstrates that he obtains the authority between the two.However the audience becomes aware of the love and affection Darrin has for his new wife, Samantha. Samantha is also portrayed as a stereotypical housewife, who follows her husbands expectations of a Good wife, by cooking, keeping the household corking and being Normal. Bewitched reflects the value of the time, including some now-dated ideas about men and womens roles in society. The main characters, Darrin and Samantha are featured as binary opposite characters in the sense that Samantha is not you would call normal, being a witch.However Darrin is just an routine typical man, who happened to fall in love with a not so normal woman. Wanting to use a bit of magic erstwhile in awhile and hoping for a one-day normal family, are expectation Darrin and Samantha both have for their relationship, which of course are completely different and contradicting. A situation comedy wouldnt be one without any humour. Humour is an classic component of a sitcom and like expected Bewitched definitely has humour.In this episode there are numerous techniques used to generate a humorous response. This is evident in the use of irony when only proceeding before Shelia had been commenting on Sama nthas appearance, focusing mainly on her Hard-to-manage pilus and haughtily referring back to herself as having Not a hair out of place but ironically Shelias wig is ripped off and travel into the strong -magic made- winds, to reveal her very impressive hair, the use of the irony in this scene conveys a very humorous response from the audience.Furthermore the use of the opthalmic scenes with Samantha using magic, creates a sense of humour as the audience realize gothic happenings as do the characters, but the audience knows the cause of these strange happenings -magic- whereas the characters in the program seem not to. Hence the audience responds to the busted and perplexed state of the other characters with humour. Thus, the pilot uses numerous techniques in order to receive an entertained and humorous response from the audience.Bewitched is a fantastic casing of a situation comedy as it obtains and fulfils all of a sit-coms characteristics and criteria, having an orientatio n, complication, resolution, coda and most importantly family and humour. Bewitched evidently represents concepts referring to family and family relationships, through the military position of the couple where the male figure, Darrin is seen to obtain the authority and the female, Samantha to simply be the perfect housewife.Family relationships are represented through affection, kindliness and compassion. The program exhibits ideas about family values, where without these values there would be no family a family without forgiveness, honesty, generosity, curiosity, communication and respect isnt a family at all. Thus the family representation in Bewitched obtains all of these values in order to create the perfect household and television system sit-com.