satire vs. parody
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Satire vs. Parody
An MMA Showdown
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Parody
• A humorous interpretation of a character, situation, etc., for humor’s sake only.
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Parody
• TV, movies, comics, books, etc.
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Satire
• A humorous interpretation of a character, situation, etc., with society’s best interests at heart.
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Satire
• May be good - humored, or it can be bitter and unsparing
• Stories, Novels, Poems, Songs
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So which is the following?
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So which is the following?
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So which is the following?
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So which is the following?
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Satire
• Famous example: “The Rape of the Lock”
- Alexander Pope
- satirizes the trivial pursuits of the idle wealthy
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Satire
• Began with the ancient Greeks, but also sprang up in ancient Rome
•Horatian Satire: playfully amusing and seeks to correct vice or foolishness with gentle laughter and understanding (Pope’s satire is Horatian).
•Juvenalian Satire: provokes a darker kind of laughter. It is often bitter and criticizes corruption or incompetence with score and outrage (see Swift, “Gulliver’s Travels”).
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Satire
• Satire flourished during the 17th and 18th centuries, the “golden age” of satire.
• Sought to protect their highly developed civilization from corruption by attacking hypocrisy, arrogance, greed, vanity and stupidity.
•With a few exceptions – Lord Byron, William Thackeray and Samuel Butler in England and Mark Twain in America – the popularity of satire faded in the 19th Century.
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Satire
• Most recent satire has been Juvenalian to the extreme: “Animal Farm” by George Orwell.
• Also Doonesbury, Dilbert, SNL, MadTV, The Simpsons, Family Guy.
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Reading AssignmentSee online homework sked for details
• For Wednesday
• “A Modest Proposal”
• pp. 612-622
• Lesson 9, Vocab Book, Due Thursday – (Fri. for D Block)
• Quiz Friday – (Mon. for C Block)
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Satire Assignment
• You need to create your own satire in which you mock politics, society, the school system, etc.
• You may create a comic, draw a picture and provide captions, create a poster using pictures from a magazine, or you may write an essay!
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