The Use Of Satire To Implement Change

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The Use Of Satire to Implement Change - Sam in a nutshell. owo/ . Satire inspires. It inspires thinking, it inspires movement, it inspires action - it is a call to the people at large. Satire has, and continues to be so effective that - even as society, as the people that making up society, experience change with the times - satire has not. It is, and will continue to be the act of denouncing, criticizing, or exposing vice, folly, abuses, or evils of any kind in a literary, auditory, or visual medium. In the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell’s satire is utilized to deliver a critique on the Russian Soviet revolution to [incite criticism on the leaders involved.], whereas in comparison, the article, “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift

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