Essay | Contrast the Use of Humour in "the Remains of the Day" and "a Room with a View"

Humour within both `The Remains of the Day' and `A Room with a View' is not a theme imminent, as it would be in other texts, but both novels contain a certain humour at times, sometimes at the very absurdity of situations.

Humour in `The Remains of the Day' is often shown through Stevens' unusual understanding of situations, and frequently the absurd situations he is put into. There is an almost farcical atmosphere throughout `Day Two - Morning', where Stevens has been tasked with introducing Mr Cardinal to the `facts of life', which is amusing in Stevens' typically British discomfort with the topic: `with the arrival of spring, we will see a change - a very special sort of change - in these surroundings', as well as the introduction of M. Dupont, almost a caricature of a fussy French man: `this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at...
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