Joke

The Joke|

Years ago, Kurt Gödel with his Incompleteness Theorem destroyed the dreams of numerous mathematicians. He proved that mathematics cannot prove that every square statement is true and that every false statement is false. Basically, he proved that mathematics is limited. This is an example of a statement that cannot be proved:This statement is unprovable.Kurt Gödel was born in Brünn, which is a metropolis in the Czech Republic. It is the same city where Milan Kundera, the author of The Joke, was born. Milan Kundera calls his city Brno, however. As it is pointed out somewhere in The Joke, ethnic Germans were kicked out of Czechoslovakia after WW2. But that is another keep down altogether.The Joke will give you a pretty equitable stem of what life was like in communism, and it is very readable. Below is a pathetic summary and selected fragments.A summary of the novel:Ludvik is a schoolboyish student, with a promising future, in then communist Czechoslovakia. He decides to court a nice friend of his, Marketa. Marketa seems to be a fine girl, she has only one problem: She is very serious. So serious that she does not understand jokes.Marketas seriousness made her communist friends think that she needed some ideological training. Marketa did not ramify of understand why the ends justify the means.



She was sent to some sort of communist summer school to learn that. Away from Ludvik, Marketa writes to govern him that the revolution in the West would not be short in coming. Angry that Marketa did not seem to miss him at all, Ludvik writes a postcard to her:Optimism is opium for the people! 
A healthy line stinks of stupidity! 
Long Live Trotsky! 
Ludvik.This postcard, which was meant to be a joke, became campaign for Ludviks expulsion from the communist Party (and from the University as well: his good friend Pavel Zemanek proposed that Ludvik be expelled from the University, and all his friends raised their hands and voted to O.K. the expulsion). Ludvik ended up in a...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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