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today we're talking about satire the definition of satire which I think I've given you already is writing that pokes fun Society Society for humanities inconsistencies vices and foibles as an impetus for change queso satires going to attention to these various weaknesses these various Epocrates as the goal of satire and so that things change matter however rarely offers a solution it's drawing attention to the problem making people admit there is a in the hopes that then that will be a step and another definition is a littering mode based on the criticism of people through ridicule so we can criticism that's pointing to flaws that's going into problems and that's by poking fun at things for ridiculing things so just to clarify satire is always funny so as the semester goes on so if you all night and if I something to sat turn the thing off but it didn't make me laugh I'm so if you have that problem with Huck Finn doesn't always have to be funny its main goal isn't entertainment its main goal isn't humor because it has the element of wanting people to reform it doesn't want to make them feel horrible about themselves it's not to abuse them because someone who feels like everyone hates them is likely going to be all sad and Frozen and paralyzed and not eager to do their best to become better so it's not necessarily trying to abuse some of it gets kind of and we'll talk about that so that tire does not make fun of things that can't be changed so it will not make fun of disabilities or something like that ends in general satire deals with groups of people or types of people rather than individuals because drawing attention to one specific next person will likely make them angry and bitter router rather than eager to improve and it's easier for us to identify ourselves it's kind of like on her own horrible in various ways I make you laugh about it even though satire isn't always funny I love this quote by Oscar Wilde so including it if you want to tell people the truth make them laugh otherwise they'll kill you satire often uses humorous that people can face hard truths and it often uses kind of the anonymity offered by discussing types of people or groups of so that people are more free to laugh but also see kind of their presence in the critique your categories of Sapphire can be direct or formal which means that a first person narrator is speaking to is it Reader the audience and basically the satire comes through what they're saying and how they're saying it so we have some really easy examples from contemporary pop culture which is The Daily Show and The Colbert Report so in both of those not particularly The Colbert Report I'm just because I'm Stephen Colbert's characters more obvious he speaking to the audience but there's a other examples that we've read are on the decay of the art of lying and the Modest Proposal so in both of those Twain is the speaker or Swift as the speaker gnarly Swift are talking to an audience and Celeste in contrast to enter after informal which is more character in pocket so it's expressed through a narrative and their character jokes stupid things already feel upon themselves great example of that are the king in the hood and in the name of a novel since I'm so they do ridiculous things and then we make fun of them another example is mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice I'm so she's not talking to us I'm representative of mothers were obsessed with marrying off their daughters for financial reasons she's not doing that play poorly written but we're able to see the critique and then of course it's The Simpsons or South Park any of the Family Guy like shows and there's a marathon dream okay two types although I feel like we can apply these terms to indirect as well so just scratch the direct part of the title but ways to categorize sapphire in terms of phone are horatian and juvenalian and horatian is named after Roman lyric poet and it's a lot nicer it's just kind of gently poking fun at things people do in Whittier or Indulgence **** answer your leg I right everyone does this and so it encourages the audience to laugh at itself that was my house before its lighting humorous often The Simpsons would fall into that category for the most part the decay of The Art of Lying would fall into that sorry I'm I feel like it got a little critical in the introductory part okay this is in contrast sing alien which is named after juvenile of Roman satirist and I feel like it's really inconvenient sounds like like childish and that we would expect the lights but it's the opposite sorry so juvenalian satire is by bitter and angry I'm at usually has a mark caustic I'm cutting indignant tone deals with things with time it's much more clearly judgemental and a really great example of that that you're no the mill you're with is a modest proposal a modest proposal doesn't make us laugh unless we're slightly sadistic or just really excited that we're in on because it's not a funny satire it's **** meme it's pointing to the corruption of England Cyrus wrist in Kratts with scorn  okay this is a little bit about the general method of satire however I've little disclaimer in red satire doesn't follow a prescribed format it's not like you take out your book and you like I'm going to write a satire so first stuff this but these are some commonality and as I go through these you'll likely be able to think of things we've read already that contradicts them sorry so usually targets are made since you really flat characters and having this oversimplification provides an exaggeration of their stay chance their flaws so that then it's drawn to our attention and we can make fun of it so examples of this that we've seen in Huck Finn when we have well pretty much all the fuxin the Duke and the Dauphin complex characters right there just representative of corrupt ignorance conniving fools the mob scene we're on guys like and then you guys won't fight me because you are not men it's just an exaggeration he's not full character he's just like ARMA man and you are not you mob and then even the Granger for its and shepherdsons that we don't really get full characters there it's like Buck why do you fight them I don't know we just do I want to shoot someone also its exact rating the feud elements so that it can be shown to be ridiculous saturation of the issues it also kind of defers lame so we're able to be critical of those people over there and then think what do I need to fix that so I have a picture  but Gulliver's Travels Gulliver goes to various Islands bunch of separate trips it's really weird and those islands have and those problems May reflect issues in England and Ireland but it's on the island I similarly in the decay of the art of when's Wayne's Lego there's this community I've once been to where people say hi and we don't mean it but what is very centered in a real place to the extent that we could have traced the trip using hints some stuff so that one doesn't follow it  major tools of satire I've already defines two of these For You parody and caricature they are not new so imitating the style of something to make fun of it possibly so the author or the type of work can change character is doing one of the tools I said before right it's an oversimplification exaggerating one element a new term is burlesque in this context doesn't mean what you think it means burlesque is a literary terms used to describe a work that twists a serious issue into a humorous one or say humor subjects and treats it as though it were serious so it's basically about creating a contrast between the contents and the style so you can either about something really like white and frivolous but as if it's the biggest deal ever or about something super serious super important essential to the day-to-day life as if  whatever then I most famous example of this is a mock epic written by pope called the rape of the lock and it's written like an epic like there are Supernatural forces there's a big war There's a Hero it's just like Greek and Roman epic but the story about a guy who cut a lock of a girl's hair does he have a thing for her but you didn't ask her permission note back in this time it was very normal for women to cut pieces of their hair to give too many love but he stole it and so the war is a card game and so it takes like so what he cut her hair but it makes it like it's this huge deal and I know that Friends the TV show does that a lot and I can never remember episodes when I'm doing best PowerPoint so if you can come up with one let me know every watch to the series and the whole time I was like I'll make note of that pisode that and I did and then I forgot them because I made my head  and then I have this great quote by Jonathan Swift satire is a sort of Looking Glass people holders generally discover everybody's face with their own which is the chief reason for the kind reception it's in the world and why very few are offended by it so he is pointing out that Sapphire may not always work because everyone's eager to look at and be like all those people are stupid but not as I'm interest bective as they should be  okay here are more tools of satire so  just be something is being critical or just because something is being humorous doesn't make it Sapphire it needs to have some of big key elements to look for the elements on the previous life also irony exaggeration and understatement is there a huge mom so generally is something that hurts going to have one of those 3 but it might also use ambiguity window so that's when I'm hoping you say also imply something else to usually sexual caricature sarcasm Elysian juxtaposition I'm often juxtaposition to create contrast and I've already discussed the information in the red box with you but the same sort of check we used to determine if a speaker is reliable can be used to determine if there play nitronic so if there's some sort of distance between what the speaker is saying and what the author means so look for a contra between what the speaker says and how he or she says it so contrast between content and style and not even necessarily in the burlesque way perhaps in the way that we kind of saw when we did formula by Langston Hughes or a contrast between ideas music by the speaker so if it seems to contradict itself or things that just seemed wrong which hopefully was have big red flag for you when you were reading a modest proposal  and that is the end  stop there and use rhetoric now

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