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Satire, Animation & The Simpsons

willing to "deflate our most over-inflated pieties" and delight in the "demolition of our most hallowed institutions" (Turner 50)....

Butler & Eliot

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

This book review pertains to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The writer argues that this is a hilarious satire th...

Voltaire's Multifaceted Satire

all possible worlds". The purpose of having a character act as a mouthpiece for Leibniz optimistic defense of Christianity was t...

Satire: 12th Night vs. Miller's Tale

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale." The writer asserts that Chaucer's narrative ...

Satire—How to Study

test, googling Spark Notes and reading the books synopsis. First of all, it is helpful to find out what other students are think...

TAMING OF THE SHREW: ABUSE, SATIRE AND RHETORIC

match. Twentieth-century feminists, appalled at the role of women in this play, are particularly appalled at Katharinas fi...

Inside Soviet Film Satire by Andrew Horton

In five pages this textual anthology is examined in terms of a brief informational overview. There are no other references listed...

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

Social Satire in E.M. Forster's My Wood and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal

This paper consists of five pages and examines how what the authors condemn as society's false values are satirized in these two w...

Political Satire of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

In ten pages this research paper examines the satirical elements of Alice in Wonderland particularly as they deal with issues pert...

Satire in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

on "the Boss," as everyone begins to call Hank, who begins reorganizing the kingdom. Hank explodes Merlins castle and is heralded...

Shakespeare's Use of Satire in Portraying the Frivolous Courtier

This paper addresses the ways in which Shakespeare satirized the frivolous courtier, or frivolous lover, in the plays, Taming of t...

How Satire is Used in 'Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope

In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Pope mocks feuding families, the ancient Greek epic, and the aristocracy wit...

Cynicism and Satire in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines the language usage in Hamlet in terms of its cynical and satirical aspects. Three sources are c...

Satire in Books One, Two, and Four of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how Swift satirizes his functional changes in these books with a consideration of sociology and ...

Replicating Jonathan Swift's Satire in 'A Modest Proposal'

In five pages this paper presents a satirical version of 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift....

'Enlightened' Satire of Voltaire and Jonathan Swift

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Swift and Voltaire satirized 18th century Enlightenment philosophies in their literary works. ...

A Month of Sundays by John Updike, Satire, Sanctimony, and Sin

railed (Barna 324). From the concept of this noted hypocrisy was born The Scarlet Letter, a haunting tale of misplaced faith, sil...

Teenage Pregnancy Satire

In 6 pages the 'benefits' of teenage pregnancy are satirized....

George Orwell's Animal Farm as a Russian Revolution Satire

fair and easy (yet deceitful) life of communism. How does George Orwell relate all of this to animals, however? As George Orwe...

Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Use of Satire

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...

Juvenalian v. Horatian Satire

way, this scrutiny becomes a very valuable tool for literature. After reading these two stories and comparing and contrasting the...

Social Satire by George Bernard Shaw in Pygmalion and Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales

Tales" Numerous examples of satire exist throughout The Canterbury Tales. In fact, each of the tales and each of the characters o...

Mark Twain's Use of Satire in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

of the Knights of the Round Table and the legend of King Arthur is achieved by Twain in that he juxtaposes the times and belief sy...

Satire and Utopia in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

of war, and its punishments for crime in the name of law and order were extreme. To Jonathan Swift, England more closely resemble...

Rhetorical Questions of John Donne in 'Holy Sonnet XVII' and 'Satire III'

Dutch, and darst thou lay/ Thee in ships wooden sepulchres, a prey/ To leaders rage, to storms, to shot, to dearth?/ Darst thou di...

Youth Stress, Test Scores, and a Satire Essay

same score. This group learning program has helped lessen the stress of an introverted student who is able to fade into the backg...

'Do-Gooder' Satire in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

Huck should not do it anymore. Huck thinks, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they dont know ...

Satire and Irony in Political Literature

nineteenth century. Here, Marx in some sense provides a sense of irony. Marx & Engels (1998) talk about a "great battle between pr...