satire vs. parody

Satire vs. Parody

An MMA Showdown

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Parody

• A humorous interpretation of a character, situation, etc., for humor’s sake only.

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Parody

• TV, movies, comics, books, etc.

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Satire

• A humorous interpretation of a character, situation, etc., with society’s best interests at heart.

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Satire

• May be good - humored, or it can be bitter and unsparing

• Stories, Novels, Poems, Songs

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So which is the following?

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So which is the following?

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So which is the following?

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So which is the following?

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Satire• Famous example:

“The Rape of the Lock” - Alexander Pope- satirizes the trivial pursuits of the idle wealthy

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Satire• Began with the

ancient Greeks, but also sprang up in ancient Rome

•Horatian Satire: playfully amusing and seeks to correct vice or foolishness with gentle laughter and understanding (Pope’s satire is Horatian).

•Juvenalian Satire: provokes a darker kind of laughter. It is often bitter and criticizes corruption or incompetence with score and outrage (see Swift, “Gulliver’s Travels”).

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Satire• Satire flourished during

the 17th and 18th centuries, the “golden age” of satire.

• Sought to protect their highly developed civilization from corruption by attacking hypocrisy, arrogance, greed, vanity and stupidity.

•With a few exceptions – Lord Byron, William Thackeray and Samuel Butler in England and Mark Twain in America – the popularity of satire faded in the 19th Century.

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Satire• Most recent satire has been Juvenalian to the

extreme: “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. • Also Doonesbury, Dilbert, SNL, MadTV, The

Simpsons, Family Guy.

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Reading AssignmentSee online homework sked for details

• For Wednesday• “A Modest Proposal” • pp. 612-622

• Lesson 9, Vocab Book, Due Thursday – (Fri. for D Block)

• Quiz Friday – (Mon. for C Block)

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Satire Assignment

• You need to create your own satire in which you mock politics, society, the school system, etc.

• You may create a comic, draw a picture and provide captions, create a poster using pictures from a magazine, or you may write an essay!