Step 2: Choose an Appropriate Structure‚ Type of Satire‚ and Audience for your Piece Review the various samples of satire we read in class over the last week‚ and determine which one would be the most appropriate (in terms of its structure and techniques) for your group to use as a model for your satirical piece. After choosing the piece that your group will use as a “satirical model‚” make a list of the conventions you need to use in your satire. Decide whether your piece will be more Horatian
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December 2011 Gulliver’s Travels and Historical England Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is a famous‚ classic novel that satirized many aspects of government‚ religion and human nature. Written in the eighteenth century‚ this three-hundred-year-old novel remains well known today because of its timeless criticism that can still be applied to contemporary politics and religious faiths. In eighteenth century England‚ the home of both Swift and his character Lemuel Gulliver‚ the ruling constitutional
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Satire Noun. A literary manner which blends humor with criticism for the purpose of instruction or the improvement of humanity The necessary ingredients • Humor • Criticism‚ either general criticism of humanity or human nature or specific criticism of an individual or group. • Some kind of moral voice: simply mocking or criticism is not “satire.” The Satiric Manner • Ironic/Sarcastic • Either good natured criticism (Horatian) or bitterly cynical denunciation (Juvenalian) • Always opposed to pretense
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satirical methods. "How is it that an American can sell his wares‚ at whatever price he pleases‚ where a blue-nose would fail to make a sail at all?"(83). It is ironic because Americans are at the top of the food chain when it comes to development and political power‚ so they are able to sell there wares at what ever price they want. In "The Clockmaker" the character Sam Slick is an American who is a trickster and cannot be trusted. He has the ability to convince people that in order to live a more luxurious
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Satire is defined as a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony‚ derision‚ or wit. Candide is a successful satire because it includes the main components of satire‚ and in writing it Voltaire intended to point out the folly in philosophical optimism and religion. Satire is designed to ridicule a usually serious idea. Because Voltaire was a deist he was more than comfortable deriding religion and philosophical optimism in his novella Candide. In contrast to the standard
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Political Climate of 1950’s vs. Today The novelist Lauren Groff once wrote‚ “In America‚ possibly because of whatever the American dream is‚ this happens over and over again. These eras repeat” (“Lauren Groff Quotes”). Two such eras are the 1950’s and the 2010’s. The 50’s‚ remembered with the military-man Eisenhower; the 2010’s‚ with the watershed Obama‚ may seem stark in their physical attributes; however‚ at their heart‚ these two eras may have more in common than first realized. The political
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"Gulliver’s Travels" part four is the most revealing and satirical of human nature. Swift challenges the reader to examine the rationale of human beings and to question what is actually considered knowledgeable and important. As part four progresses through each chapter‚ Swift creates an upside down universe for the reader‚ as well as Gulliver‚ to examine‚ forcing both the reader and Gulliver to either compare themselves to the Houyhnhnms or to the Yahoos. The transformation Gulliver undergoes from
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Gulliver’s Travels Gulliver goes on four different journeys in Gulliver’s Travels. All four journeys bring new perspectives to Gulliver’s life and new opportunities for satirizing the ways of England. The first journey is to Lilliput‚ where Gulliver is huge and the Lilliput are small. The king’s faction‚ the Small-Endians believe that boiled eggs should be broken at the small end while the rebel Big- Endians believe the opposite. Some of the Big- Endians have escaped to the neighboring country
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pocket‚ “we’re just two letters in‚ and already its like having a penpal who is in deep with some loan sharks‚” Oliver satirically commented‚ gaining yet another laughing response at the poke. This is evidence that parody works in cooperation with satire‚ though parody hardly can exist outside of satirical context. The mailing correspondence engages in a normal practice of those who are exploited by the Televangelist Tilton‚ but the latter joke comparing him to an “in deep penpal” is the scornful
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The reading report of Gulliver’s Travels Plot summary A voyage to Lilliput The surgeon Gulliver is an audacious man. He was shipwrecked in his voyage‚ then he drift to a kingdom of Lilliput which on an unknown island in the Pacific Ocean. In this country‚ all the inhabitants are just 6 inches high. They captured Gulliver and took him to their territory. Gulliver’s friendly and modest expression gradually gained the emperor and people’s affection; meanwhile he is also gradually familiar with Lilliput
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