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Satirical Essays and Term Papers
I Didn't Do It: How The Simpsons Affects KidsThe Simpsons is one of Americas most popular television shows. It ranks
as the number one television program for viewers under eighteen years of age.
However, the ideals that The Simpsons conveys are not always wholesome,
sometimes not even in good taste. It is inevitable that The Simpsons ...
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a contemporary American author whose works have been described by Richard Giannone as \"comic masks covering the tragic farce that is our contemporary life\" (Draper, 3784). Vonnegut\'s life has had a number of significant influences on his works. Influences from his personal philosophy, ...
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Sense And SensibilityEnglish author Jane Austen wrote satirical romances set within the confines of upper-middle-class English society. Her books are known for their sharp attention to the details of everyday life, and her skillful treatments of character and situation has marked Austen as an astute observer of human ...
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The Wind In The Willows By KenKenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows is a satirical reflection of the English social structure of the late nineteenth century, during a time of rapid industrialization throughout Europe. Also considered a children’s story, this novel conveys Grahame’s belief in the ability of one to live an ...
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The Rules Of The Game: Andre’s Arrival At La ColiniereIn The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir paints a satirical portrait of the decadent French aristocracy prior to World War II. The scene where Andre Jurieu (Roland Toutain) arrives at La Coliniere is of particular importance, for it is the first time he sees Christine (Nora Gregor) since his plane ...
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A Modest ProposalHave You Eaten Yet?: Swift’s Final Solution
As a lately favored eighteenth century essay, Jonathan Swift’s "Proposal" has been canonized as a satirical model of wit. As will be discussed shortly, Swift’s essay is often seen as an allegory for England’s oppression of Ireland. Swift, ...
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The Use Of Characters By Hawthorne And O'Connor To Teach MoralitySince early Christianity, a doctrine of seven deadly sins has been taught. Pride, or hubris, is considered to be the sin that pushes you further away from God then any other sin. This sin, whether the sinner knows it or not, tries to put man in the same position as God. In Hawthorne’s “Young ...
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Animal FarmGeorge Orwell's novel, , is a deceitfully simple story about
a group of farm animals who, tired of toiling for the benefit of humans, rebel
and create their own way of life only to find themselves, several years later,
toiling for the benefit of one of their own kind, the pigs. Because of ...
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Karl Marxwas born on May 5, 1818, in a place called Trier in Prussia. His parents were of Jewish descent, however they did not practice Judaism. In 1824 Karl's father adopted Protestantism. Marx attended the university of Bonn and later the university at Berlin, where he studied in law, while majoring in ...
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Voltaire And MachiavelliThe novel, Candide, by Voltaire, is a scathing, satirical criticism of the world. It is a product of possibly the greatest philosopher of the Enlightenment. The novel examines many aspects of the world, which Voltaire found to be troublesome. These different aspects include everything from ...
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The Impact Of Stalinism In 1984
Truly one of the greatest anti-utopian novels in history George Orwell's 1984 is a "nightmare vision" into the future of a world controlled by totalitarianism (Meyers 144). Through the character of Winston Smith, Orwell expresses his negative views on totalitarianism in Stalinist Russia and ...
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Candide - All Is Not For The BVoltaire's Candide is the story of an innocent man's experiences in a mad and evil world, his struggle to survive in that world, and his need to ultimately come to terms with it. All people experience the turmoil of life and must overcome obstacles, both natural and man-made, in order to ...
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Catch 22Satire is often used by writers to express their discontent towards a subject in a humorous way. Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22, satirizes war and its implications on society and man himself. Heller reveals the dehumanizing aspect of war, not the glory of it. He makes a social comment on the ...
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Pop Art"" is a term used to describe popular art, the word popular meaning
everyday life. also varied greatly, from soup cans to comic book
art to abstract art. istis often have "satirical or playful
intents." This would mean that a ist tries to express himself
through humorous art.
An early pop ...
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Alex's Analysis Of Any Abject AbuseThe destruction of the grand style of the epic is just what Pope
was after in his mock epic, "The Rape of the Lock." Pope had no such
universal goal, or moral pronouncements to make as did Milton. His purpose
was merely to expose the life of the nobility of his time. While Milton
chose blank ...
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Fawlty Towers Vs CommediaThe aim of this essay is to examine the drama elements used in "Faulty Towers" and to compare and contrast this British comedy with the Italian street theatre, Commedia Dell ‘arte.
"Faulty Towers" episode "Kipper and the Corpse" uses many of the same comical devices ...
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Satire Or Tragedy - MacbethWilliam Shakespeare wrote four great tragedies, the last of
which was written in 1606 and titled Macbeth. This "tragedy", as it
is considered by societal critics of yesterday's literary world,
scrutinizes the evil dimension of conflict, offering a dark and
gloomy atmosphere of a world dominated ...
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Arcadia As A Postmodern TextArcadia, a typically postmodern play by Tom Stoppard exemplifies this movement
through use of the features of postmodernism and by it’s ambiguous ending.
Some of the features used in the play which demonstrate this include the shifts in time from past to present, concurrent props used sets of both ...
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Siefried Sassoon And Counter-AttackCouter-Attack is a poem of war, and it is in a soldiers viewpoint. It starts out with his army keeping the enemy away early in the morning. Everyone was unshaven and thirsty and blind from smoke but still everything seemed all right. They had certain guns set up in different places to keep ...
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