{"id":3479,"date":"2016-04-23T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T09:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2016-04-23T15:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T09:49:22","slug":"what-if-we-all-laughed-a-little-more-like-pg-wodehouse-wouldve-wanted-us-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"What If We All Laughed a Little More Like PG Wodehouse Would\u2019ve Wanted Us To?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>t\u2019s a rare <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/the-3-mistakes-of-chetan-bhagat-me-too-sexual-harassment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">author<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who can remain relevant for over a century. And it\u2019s an even rarer one whose work can not only be studied and picked over in classrooms and colleges, but who can, to this day, continue adding to his tribe of devotees. Somehow, the patently ridiculous, hopelessly outdated universe of PG Wodehouse and his iconic duo, the bumbling Bertie Wooster and long-suffering manservant Jeeves, continues to capture imaginations all around the world.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generally, the soups in which Wodehouse\u2019s characters land themselves seem far from relatable. Wodehouse\u2019s perspective is small and specific, populated by the wealthy pre-war British and their hilariously niche problems. There is the fierce battle over ownership of a hideous cow-shaped cream jug that propels several books forward. There are Bertie\u2019s numerous accidental <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/dating-games-with-gaitonde-ft-sagar-karande-sacred-games-spoof\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">engagements<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to girls whom, thanks to his gentlemanly Code of the Woosters, he can never turn down. There\u2019s Roderick Spode, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/october-horrorscope-dangers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrathful<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> house-guest who can only be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/why-has-metoo-scared-every-man\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">subdued<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the mention of his secret women\u2019s lingerie brand, Eulalie.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wodehouse\u2019s narrow slice of Britain\u2019s Roaring Twenties upper-class is undeniably idyllic. It revolves around lavish <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/maggi-scotch-eggs-recipe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dinner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> parties, endless streams of cocktails, and the Drones Club. It\u2019s a place where you only have to think of money if your rich uncle cuts off your allowance; where you oscillate between bucolic mansions and fashionable destinations abroad; where the worst villain you encounter is the judge who failed to take an indulgent view of your drunken frolics in a public fountain. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe that\u2019s why Wodehouse\u2019s novels come with a strange sense of misplaced nostalgia for a world that never was. While it\u2019s tempting to believe in a bygone utopia, complete with its cliche of \u201csimpler times\u201d, Wodehouse\u2019s contemporary critics claimed that his work did not realistically reflect society. However, Wodehouse himself pushed back, insisting that before World War II, when Britain\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-book-douglas-adams\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">upper class<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would lose status, lands, and the idle-rich lifestyle, this was how they lived. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And his work makes it clear that, at least in his eyes, this was reality. How else could he have imagined characters who were at once cartoonish <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/what-a-star-is-born-gets-right-about-toxic-masculinity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tropes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and nuanced human beings? Couched within Wodehouse\u2019s madcap comedies-of-error and brilliant bits of wordplay are people whose very absurdity make them recogniseable. Like all of us, their behaviour is informed by the often senseless <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/navratri-sex-gujarat-the-mating-dance-of-the-gujarati-sunny-leone-garba-condoms\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mores<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of their society, from their non-negotiable gallantry in even the most uncomfortable circumstances, to their outrage over conduct they consider unacceptable, like visiting another man\u2019s country residence and poaching his prized French chef. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wodehouse\u2019s most telling satirical dig at a society strictly governed by arbitrary rules might be the running point of contention between Jeeves and Bertie over the former\u2019s wardrobe. When Bertie becomes too adventurous with his sartorial choices, daring to wear purple socks or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/children-racist-skin-colour\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exotic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cummerbunds, the disapproving Jeeves often holds the offending item ransom, only agreeing to solve his employer\u2019s convoluted problems if he agrees to give up the garment for good. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Was Wodehouse making a subtle statement on how Britain\u2019s upper classes, like all upper classes, were so sheltered by a system of rigid hierarchy that they remained oblivious to the turbulent changes happening around them? That to them, a simple cummerbund was tantamount to a threat against the shaky foundations upon which they were propped?<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps. But Wodehouse\u2019s deft skewering of society gone <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/health\/psychiatric-facility-mental-health-rehab-drug-addicts\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mad<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is softened by his affectionate touch. However sharply he laid bare the foibles of his people \u2013 for he was always writing with the easy familiarity of an insider \u2013 he also made them singularly empathetic. However divorced his characters might be from reality, and however removed from our time and place, they still resonate with the authenticity of an author who knows them well. More than the world that was, Wodehouse believed in a world that could be, if everyone would only laugh a little more. <\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Couched within Wodehouse\u2019s madcap comedies-of-error and brilliant bits of wordplay are people whose very absurdity make them recogniseable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/culture\/how-rk-narayans-malgudi-days-helped-me-understand-my-grandfather\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rose-tinted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> escapism that defines his oeuvre speaks volumes of a social observer who knew that the days of this rarefied existence were numbered. In 1940, Wodehouse was taken prisoner in a French seaside town by German forces, presumably a far cry from his comfortable life as a celebrated writer and humorist. When he was released, he made comic broadcasts over German enemy radio, prompting outrage in the UK &#8211; just as his cuttingly honest critiques of Hollywood executives had caused a furore in the USA. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his tumultuous times, Wodehouse\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/cat-person-new-yorker-sexual-harassment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dogged<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> refusal to take anything seriously, be it political patriotism, the sacred lion of MGM Studios, or his own work, was its own form of irreverent resistance \u2013 one that is just as effective today as it was a hundred years ago. As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/shashi-tharoor-twitter-character-limit-social-media\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeeves<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would say to a bewildered Bertie: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">plus \u00e7a change, plus c\u2019est la m\u00eame chose<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (the more things change, the more they remain the same). And as any fan of Wodehouse knows, life is still best met with a stiff upper lip, a stiffer whisky and soda, and a tongue that is planted firmly in cheek.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rose-tinted escapism that defines PG Wodehouse\u2019s oeuvre speaks volumes of a social observer who knew that the days of this rarefied existence were numbered. In his tumultuous times, his refusal to take anything seriously, be it political patriotism, the sacred lion of MGM Studios, or his own work, was its own form of irreverent resistance \u2013 one that is just as effective today as it was a hundred years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3452],"tags":[6622,6623,6624,6625,5543,1269,6626,6627,6628,6629,6630,6631,6632,6633,6634,6635,6636,6637,6638],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-aunt-dahlia","tag-bassett","tag-bertie-wooster","tag-blandings","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-english-literature","tag-eugenie","tag-jeeves","tag-miladys-boudoir","tag-mr-mulliner","tag-pg-wodehouse","tag-roaring-twenties","tag-roderick-spode","tag-royal-wedding","tag-satire","tag-the-feudal-spirit","tag-toffs","tag-world-war-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What If We All Laughed a Little More Like PG Wodehouse Would\u2019ve Wanted Us To?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The rose-tinted escapism that defines PG Wodehouse\u2019s oeuvre speaks volumes of a social observer who knew that the days of this rarefied existence were numbered. 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