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    Satire Assessment Task

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    Satire Assessment Task “Satire is moral outrage transformed into art.” How do the novel you read and another satirical text support this statement? Eric Blair‚ pen name‚ George Orwell‚ was a British political essayist and novelist. Along with this he was a passionate socialist‚ although did not consider the Soviet Union a good representation of what socialism truly is. It is the Soviet Union/Russian Revolution that acts as the general bases of moral outrage Orwell has transformed into art.

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    Satire - Family Guy

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    * The satirical techniques used for ‘Family Guy’ characters * Begin to analyse a ‘Family Guy’ episode to understand the satire used within the episode. * Brian and Stewie join the Army‚ but when they’re shipped to Iraq‚ they try everything to get discharged‚ including shooting each other and pretending they’re gay. * Meanwhile Chris joins a heavy-metal band and develops an anti-social and rude attitude. Lois and Peter find a poster of Marilyn Manson in his wardrobe and blame him for the

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    Satire In Catch 22

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    in this article is that even 25 years after publication‚ Catch 22 has remained relevant and ubiquitous due to its many revelations that come only after reading. One of Aldridge’s main points in this article is that while Catch-22 is known for its satire‚ it ultimately ends with a realization of the terrors war encompasses. Aldridge makes such an eloquent statement that sums his exclamation up‚ “as the comedy is finally neutralized by the weightier force of terror and death‚ the fateful ubiquity of

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    Bullying was used a lot in schooling environments to visualise that you don’t bully someone at all schools. It’s a physical and verbal way that is satirised to identified that isn’t the way of people to behave. Throughout the show‚ Jonah the troublemaker is not just a swearing or cursed words‚ but a bully. In the second episode‚ Jonah was confronted by the Co-ordinator‚ because he was in trouble for bullying a redheaded student named Ben. He asked for him to apologies‚ unfortualally he said offensive

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    RE-WRITING THE COLONIAL DISCOURSE Written by: Nouha Mahjoubi Supervised by: Professor Beltaif The world’s structure today is tightly linked to the historical development and events. One of the most noticeable historical processes is colonization. The British Empire was one of the greatest imperialist powers. It is through colonization that the Western world is gaining a kind of prominence and domination in the world. The influence of colonization may not be very obvious nowadays as the concrete

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    Animal Farm Satire

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    shouted. Another student yelled‚ “A fable!” “No‚ you buffoons! It’s a satire!” argued another. “I think it’s an allegory!” exclaimed the final student. Since the release of George Orwell’s famous book Animal Farm‚ people have struggled to decide the genre of the story. Throughout the book‚ Orwell uses different elements like talking animals from fables‚ universal truths from fairy tales‚ criticism on a certain individuals from satires‚ and symbolic messages from allegories to enhance the story. But

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    Candide is an outlandishly humorous‚ far-fetched tale by Voltaire satirizing the optimism espoused by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. It is the story of a young man’s adventures throughout the world‚ where he witnesses much evil and disaster. Throughout his travels‚ he adheres to the teachings of his tutor‚ Pangloss‚ believing that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Candide is Voltaire’s answer to what he saw as an absurd belief proposed by the Optimists - an

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    When you hear the phrase "the American people" do you think of a people who are despoiled‚ alienated‚ or lost? William Carlos Williams characterizes the American people in this way in his poem To Elsie‚ which provides commentary on the American people’s lost perspective. Through tone and imagery Williams tells of a self-alienating America that has lost perspective of its most treasured ideology‚ the American Dream‚ due to its violent and unstable tradition. Williams’ tone is a key component to understanding

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    The Satire of H.G Wells

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    revolution by taking them to extremes‚ and through his satire reflects the specific flaws of both processes as they changed the world around him. H.G Wells himself was a left wing socialist. Socialism essentially commands an abolition of class structure and a "collective ownership of the means of production" (Wikipedia‚ Socialism). Wells interest in class structure‚ the role and consequences of it are reflected in The Time Machine which is a satire of the industrial revolution that was re-defining

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    Restoration Literature

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    and hardened during pope’s era. Imitation of the french : The literature and literature tendencies of the restoration period were deeply influenced by the French models.since shakespeare and other Elizabethan held no interest for the authors of the age began to imitate the french master with whose works they had just grown far .Here begins the So-called period of French influence which wrought a profound influence on english literature for the next century instead of italian inflence which had been

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