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    Travel

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    Higher Colleges of Technology Fujairah Women’s College Group Members: * Maryam Ali H00204121 * Fatima Abdullah Rashid H00205893 * Marwa Ali H00203336

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    On Travel

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    1 Story of Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantès is the apple of this novel’s eye. We will follow him over the course of twenty-three years and 117 chapters (yikes). During this time he will pretend to be a number of different people‚ including Sinbad the Sailor‚ Lord Wilmore‚ Abbé Faria‚ and the Count of Monte Cristo. Edmond returns from a long journey at sea. The captain of his ship‚ thePharaon‚ has died along the way‚ and Edmond has successfully lead the crew and the cargo home to Marseilles

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    Analysing Satire

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    of this speech. There are three main types of satire‚ gentle‚ barbed and savage. Gentle satire also known as horatian laughs along with the subject. It uses wit‚ exaggeration and self-deprecating humour and often critiques social vice through light hearted humour. Some well-known examples that use gentle satire are often parodies of songs‚ movies or shows. Barbed satire laughs at the weak like political cartoons. The last main type of satire is savage‚ which is cruel and aims to destroy someone

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    Reflects on the Society in Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels in 1762 with the intent of providing entertainment for people. Entertainment through satire was what Swift had in mind. In Gulliver’s Travels‚ Jonathan Swift traveled to four different foreign countries‚ each representing a corrupt part of England. Swift criticized the corruption of such parts and focused on the government‚ society‚ science‚ religion and man. Not only did Swift criticize the customs of each country

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    Gulliver ’s Travels: Summary Many of the critics who have critiqued Jonathan Swift ’s Gulliver ’s Travels have used the word extraneous more then once. Swift was viewed as an insane person who was a failure in life. But this is far from the truth. Swift wrote Gulliver ’s Travels‚ a book that has been assigned to students for years‚ and it is written from experience. Swift ’s experience with the Tories and their conflicts with the Whigs caused him to write books that mock religious beliefs

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    BEHERA CLASS- VIII-‘B’ TGT ENGLISH DETAILS OF THE BOOK TITLE: - Gulliver’s Travels AUTHOR: - Jonathan Swift ORIGINAL TITTLE: - Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World‚ in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver‚ First a Surgeon‚ and then a Captain of several Ships LANGUAGE: - English GENRE: - Fantasy‚ Satire PUBLISHER: - Benjamin Motte YEAR OF PUBLICATION: - 1726 INTRODUCTION OF THE AUTHOR JONATHAN SWIFT INTRODUCTION:

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    Juvenal Satire

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    Satire‚ in order to resonate with the audience‚ has to reflect something about reality‚ but‚ in Juvenal’s case‚ it is surely a heightened‚ exaggerated version of it‚ even a caricature. As evidenced‚ this is by far the longest‚ and in some ways the most offensive‚ of the Satires by Juvenal‚ his sixth‚ which he devotes to a wide-ranging attack on the folly‚ for men‚ of marriage. Postumus‚ are you really Taking a wife? You used to be sane enough—what Fury’s got into you‚ what snake has stung you

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    Religious Satire

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    Religious Satire: Laughter Silenced The world enjoys laughter; they say it is the best medicine. In every part of the world there are comics‚ jokes‚ and satire. Most of them are all in good fun‚ but sometimes the jokes get taken too far. The recent uproar over a political cartoon in the Middle East has sparked a lot of interest with religious satire. Why does religion get attacked so frequently? How far is too far? When are the jokes no longer funny‚ but hurtful? Whenever someone’s religion

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    Augustan Satire

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    Augustan Satire and Dryden 1688-1744 are often referred to as the English Augustan Age. The term ‘Augustan’ is derived from the reign of the roman emperor Augustus wherein the prestige given to literature was noteworthy and therefore the term is often applied to the other epochs in world history when literary culture was high. The English Augustan Age was marked by perfection of letters and learning. The 18th century led to the emergence of classical ideals of taste‚ polish‚ common sense and reason

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    Satire Essay

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    Analyse the ways in which satire can engage and provoke its audience Satire aims to expose to its audience the shortcomings of humanity through an assemblage of wit and mockery; it provides momentum for change and reform through ridicule. Robert Sitch’s television program ‘The Hollowmen’ seeks to expose the nepotistic and often superficial nature of Australian politics through the use of political satire‚ showing us that Australian politics is “inherently without values or moral grounding’ (Louise

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