Do You See What I See?
Satire is generally sarcastic and it can be both humorous and biting. There are two types of satire, Horatian and Juvenalian. Horatian is tolerant, indulgent, witty and funny. Juvenalian is generally very biting. The speaker generally attacks vice and error with indignation and contempt. Satire is meant to be used to raise the awareness of the public to hopefully instigate a change within society. Megan LeBoeuf states, “Satire is a powerful art form which has the ability to point out the deficiencies in (a) certain...way that they become absurd, even hilarious, which is therefore entertaining and reaches a wide audience.”
The four major ways that satirists will reach their audience through; exaggeration, incongruity, …show more content…
Swift has masterfully belittled and mocked the rich people and the church leaders and basically laughing in their faces as they tax them and turning them into the criminals and thieves and “...pick up a livelihood by stealing,...”(“Jonathan”) that they are trying to stop when they are the ones pushing them to become thieves and criminals. Jonathan Swift did, in fact, achieve what he was trying to accomplish through this essay. This essay is an excellently executed example of Juvenalian …show more content…
McFee is an example of Horatian satire and uses incongruity, exaggeration and parody to show the artist’s views of the problem ISIS poses and what Obama is doing. Obama’s size compared to the “ISIS guy” is an exaggeration that shows two different views. One, that Obama isn’t doing enough to ‘make a dent’, so to say, and two, that talking isn’t going to be enough to stop the threat ISIS poses, which is symbolized through the rolled up newspaper, or, more accurately, the media. The imitation, or parody, created by the artist show what Obama is doing and that it isn’t enough. The incongruity is with the big ISIS guy holding a bloody sword that obviously points out that he wouldn’t hesitate to kill anyone and Obama fighting him with a rolled up newspaper. Obviously the incongruity is quite absurd since no one would bring a newspaper to a knife fight if they were smart. “...And there’s more where that came from!” (“Graphic Satire”) with the word ‘more’ underlined and bolded in red could symbolize that Obama, who is the person being satirized, is only talking their ears off. This cartoon is a wonderful source and excellent example of
Satire is generally sarcastic and it can be both humorous and biting. There are two types of satire, Horatian and Juvenalian. Horatian is tolerant, indulgent, witty and funny. Juvenalian is generally very biting. The speaker generally attacks vice and error with indignation and contempt. Satire is meant to be used to raise the awareness of the public to hopefully instigate a change within society. Megan LeBoeuf states, “Satire is a powerful art form which has the ability to point out the deficiencies in (a) certain...way that they become absurd, even hilarious, which is therefore entertaining and reaches a wide audience.”
The four major ways that satirists will reach their audience through; exaggeration, incongruity, …show more content…
Swift has masterfully belittled and mocked the rich people and the church leaders and basically laughing in their faces as they tax them and turning them into the criminals and thieves and “...pick up a livelihood by stealing,...”(“Jonathan”) that they are trying to stop when they are the ones pushing them to become thieves and criminals. Jonathan Swift did, in fact, achieve what he was trying to accomplish through this essay. This essay is an excellently executed example of Juvenalian …show more content…
McFee is an example of Horatian satire and uses incongruity, exaggeration and parody to show the artist’s views of the problem ISIS poses and what Obama is doing. Obama’s size compared to the “ISIS guy” is an exaggeration that shows two different views. One, that Obama isn’t doing enough to ‘make a dent’, so to say, and two, that talking isn’t going to be enough to stop the threat ISIS poses, which is symbolized through the rolled up newspaper, or, more accurately, the media. The imitation, or parody, created by the artist show what Obama is doing and that it isn’t enough. The incongruity is with the big ISIS guy holding a bloody sword that obviously points out that he wouldn’t hesitate to kill anyone and Obama fighting him with a rolled up newspaper. Obviously the incongruity is quite absurd since no one would bring a newspaper to a knife fight if they were smart. “...And there’s more where that came from!” (“Graphic Satire”) with the word ‘more’ underlined and bolded in red could symbolize that Obama, who is the person being satirized, is only talking their ears off. This cartoon is a wonderful source and excellent example of