Satire-Irony

//A satire, either in prose or in poetic form, holds prevailing vices or follies up to ridicule: it employs humor and wit to criticize human institutions or humanity itself, in order that they might be remodeled or improved. Ex. – Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" which proposed using Irish babies as food to feed the starving Irish as a solution to the overpopulation problem in Ireland. Obviously Swift is not suggesting this, but if you only read the literal tone of the essay, you would think that he was. Instead, he is attacking the colonial policies of England in the way that it is dealing with the Irish. Even more recently the character of Borat is a perfect example. The character doesn't understand how offensive his statements are, but in the process the actor, Cohen can illuminate the failings of the real people who don't know that "Borat" is not real. There are many levels of irony going on there. // //**__Types of Satire __**////**: **// //• **Horatian:** aims to correct through humor.// //For example: Importance of Being Earnest. //
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//• **Juvenalian:** points with contempt to the corruption of men and institutions. // //For example, Brave New World or The Picture// of Dorian Gray.

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//**__A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public __**////**: **// //It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the steels, the roads, and cabin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling, to beg sustenance for their helpless infants ... // //I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in the arms or on the backs or at the heels of their mothers and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair cheap, and easy method of making these children sound, useful members of the commonwealth would deserve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. // //I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.// //I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. // //"Satire." Academic Departments. Web. 02 Feb. 2012. . //

//**__<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Rape of the Lock __**////**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">: **// //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Peer now spreads the glittering forfex wide, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">To enclose the Lock; now joins it, to divide. // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Even then, before the fatal engine closed, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">A wretched Sylph too fondly interposed; // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Fate urged the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">(But airy substance soon unites again): // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The meeting points the sacred hair dissever // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">From the fair head, forever, and forever! // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies. // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last; // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Or when rich china vessels fallen from high, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">In glittering dust and painted fragments lie! // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">.Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,. // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The victor cried, .the glorious prize is mine! // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Or in a coach and six the British Fair, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">As long as Atlantis* shall be read, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Or the small pillow grace a lady’s bed, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">While visits shall be paid on solemn days, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">When numerous wax-lights in bright order blaze, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">While nymphs take treats, or assignations give, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">So long my honor, name, and praise shall live! // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">What Time would spare, from Steel receives it date, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">And monuments, like men, submit to fate! // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Steel could the labor of the Gods destroy, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy; // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">And hew triumphal arches to the ground. // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel, // //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The conquering force of unresisted Steel? // //<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Pope, Alexander. "The Rape of the Lock." [|www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/a~pope/rapelock.pdfSimilar] //

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 * Political cartoons** are used quite often to express satire today. They use them to express many political issues among us and they use them to help point them out.

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 * Weird Al Yankovich**: He is a well known artist who shows satire through his music. He adds immaturity to his music by taking the beat of a song and changing the lyrics completely. Then in his music videso, what he does and the situations he is in makes you laugh too. Some songs he has are: Couch Potato, Like a Surgeon, Gump and those are only a few.

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 * Scary Movies:** There are five of them and they take a scary movie and over exangerate how they make it scary to where it is funny. They make entire scary movies into a comedy movie.

__**"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn":**__ This book was written awhile ago and still used satire. The author made fun of many aspects of society including slavery. He, in a way, made fun of the christian lady who had slaves in the book and showed that everyone had them and talks about how they were treated. He also talks about human nature in the book. He talks about a family and makes fun of their stupidity, and the family acts a a symbol in the book. []

[|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8wLg5Asgo&feature=player_embedded#!] Mr.Show is a sketch comedy that uses satire as their humor.

===[|hitchhikers guide]=== "Anyone who is capableof getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job" "Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry at you." []
 * Douglas Adams**, //The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy//
 * Douglas Adams** //The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy//

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=The SNL Effect-Satire or Something More?= Saturday Night Live has a long history of satirizing political campaigns. This campaign season, their sketches may be wielding a greater influence on undecided voters than ever before. The great American writer H.L. Mencken once wrote "There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor." To be sure, trying to find the humor in a painful situation is a difficult task. Given the current state of affairs in the U.S., it is a miracle that anyone is able to laugh at all. Thank goodness for Saturday Night Live.

For over twenty years now, and throughout some of the lowest points in our country's history, SNL, the popular sketch comedy show, has helped us once a week, through the gift of laughter, to forget our troubles for a time, and never with such hilarity as during presidential campaign seasons.

Who can forget one of the earliest presidential spoofs, Chevy Chase's performance as President Gerald Ford? The show lightly poked fun at Ford's clumsy tendencies and his somewhat awkward speech delivery. Behind the jesting, however, viewers could still detect a certain level of fondness for the man, a sort of warm embrace for our national klutz.

[|colbert image 2] [|colbert image] =Colbert’s Super PAC Raises More Than $1 Million= By [|SARAH MASLIN NIR] Stephen Colbert’s quasi-satirical presidential bid has raised serious cash — over $1 million, as of Tuesday morning, the comedian announced. An announcement on the Web site of Mr. Colbert’s political action committee said the “super PAC” had filed $1,023,121.24 with the Federal Election Commission at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday. The super PAC — once known as the “The Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC,” then the “Colbert Super PAC,” but officially as “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” — raised money from viewers to fund things like a commercial [|shown in South Carolina] that equated Mitt Romney with a serial killer. “We raised it on my show and used it to materially influence the elections – in full accordance with the law. It’s the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country,” according to a release on the Web site, with contact details of someone named Alberto Rèalnamè, the communications director and an online “Clicktivist Organizr,” at bottom. Donors listed in the 147-page document include Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor of California ($500). A representative from Mr. Newsom’s office confirmed in an e-mail that the lieutenant governor had in fact donated to the super PAC. Some celebrities’ names also turned up in the filing, including the actors Laura San Giacomo, star of “Hot in Cleveland” ($250), and Bradley Whitford, a star of “The West Wing” ($250) — naturally. Mr. Colbert also received money from a Rolling Stones tribute group called “[|Sticky Fingers Band]” ($400). None of these donors’ contributions to the committee could be immediately confirmed. In addition to the super PAC’s more notable donors, it also received small donations from several people with dubious identities, including one in Wisconsin whose name, when pronounced, makes an obscene phrase.
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