Only by regarding the symbolic theme,the imaginary world and the teasing style in the novel as integrity can readers appreciate its charm and avoid emphasizing one aspect at the expense of another in reading the great work.

The nine parts of this chapter make a detailed analysis of the different means employed by Shostakovich in his scherzos, as well as a discussion about the characteristics of the scherzo style.

Taking a memetic perspective,the present paper,through an investigation into playful deviations in VEH,concludes that the memetic motivation underlying the laughter-eliciting mechanism of VEH consists in memetic genotype and memetic phenotype.