{"id":110,"date":"2020-02-26T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T02:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/chapter\/genre-satire\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T23:36:31","slug":"genre-satire","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/chapter\/genre-satire\/","title":{"raw":"Genre: Satire","rendered":"Genre: Satire"},"content":{"raw":"

Aristophanes (450-c. \u2013 385 B.C.)<\/h1>\n
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  1. Satire\n
      \n \t
    1. Attacks deviations from the social order<\/li>\n \t
    2. Shows how ridiculous violators of moral standards or manners are<\/li>\n \t
    3. Diminishes or derogates a subject<\/li>\n \t
    4. Limits ridicule to the failing, not the person\u2014limits to corrigible faults and those not of the person\u2019s responsibility<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n \t
    5. Satiric Characters\n
        \n \t
      1. Greedy but intelligent rascally swindlers vs. greedy but gullible victims<\/li>\n \t
      2. *Narrator is urbane, witty, and tolerant\u2014points out failings in wry and humorous way *OR* Narrator is serious and dignified moralist who evokes contempt and indignation for subject<\/li>\n \t
      3. Characters make themselves ridiculous and obnoxious by what they think, say, and do<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n \t
      4. Satiric Themes\n
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        1. Laughter is used as a weapon against something outside of the work itself, ex. individual, type of person, class, institution, nation, all of the human race<\/li>\n \t
        2. Corrective of human vice and folly\u2026 Alexander Pope: \"Those who are ashamed of nothing else are so of being ridiculous.\"<\/li>\n \t
        3. \"black humour\" points out situations of social cruelty, inanity, or chaos<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>","rendered":"

          Aristophanes (450-c. \u2013 385 B.C.)<\/h1>\n
            \n
          1. Satire\n
              \n
            1. Attacks deviations from the social order<\/li>\n
            2. Shows how ridiculous violators of moral standards or manners are<\/li>\n
            3. Diminishes or derogates a subject<\/li>\n
            4. Limits ridicule to the failing, not the person\u2014limits to corrigible faults and those not of the person\u2019s responsibility<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
            5. Satiric Characters\n
                \n
              1. Greedy but intelligent rascally swindlers vs. greedy but gullible victims<\/li>\n
              2. *Narrator is urbane, witty, and tolerant\u2014points out failings in wry and humorous way *OR* Narrator is serious and dignified moralist who evokes contempt and indignation for subject<\/li>\n
              3. Characters make themselves ridiculous and obnoxious by what they think, say, and do<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
              4. Satiric Themes\n
                  \n
                1. Laughter is used as a weapon against something outside of the work itself, ex. individual, type of person, class, institution, nation, all of the human race<\/li>\n
                2. Corrective of human vice and folly\u2026 Alexander Pope: “Those who are ashamed of nothing else are so of being ridiculous.”<\/li>\n
                3. “black humour” points out situations of social cruelty, inanity, or chaos<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-110","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":105,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110\/revisions\/111"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/105"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/110\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/provincialenglishabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}