Restoration and Enlightenment
Restoration and Enlightenment
A literary technique. Behaviors or instructions are ridiculed
for the purpose of improving society.
The major difference that sets satire apart from other
techniques… HUMOR!!!
Satirists use IRONY and EXAGGERATION to poke fun at
human faults and foolishness in order to CORRECT human
behavior.
“The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander
Pope (page 1714 of your textbook)
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Horation Satire: Playfully
amusing and seeks to
correct vice or
foolishness with gentle
laughter and
understanding.
Alexander Pope’s satire
is Horation
Juvenalian Satire:
Provokes a darker kind
of laughter. It is often
bitter and criticizes
corruption or
incompetence with
scorn and outrage.
Swift uses this often in
Gulliver’s Travels
Restoration and Enlightenment
The Ending of a Fad
Who still used Satire?
Popularity of Satire faded in the 19th
Century.
 Lord Byron
 William Makepeack Thackeray
 Samuel Butler (England)
 Mark Twain (America)
 Satire in the 20th century reacted to warfare and
complex social issues.
 Method: Juvenalian in the extreme
 Example: George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945)
Animal Farm and Gulliver’s Travels were fantasy
satire. Portraying similarities of our world to that of a
fantasy world.
Often political
cartoons with
caricatures of
leaders and
parodies of
contemporary
issues.
Restoration and Enlightenment
An element of irony.
The contrast between what is expected and what actually
happens.
Verbal Irony: typical of satirical prose. What is said is not
exactly what is meant.
EX: “Nice day, isn’t it” being said during a rainstorm.
In Jonathon Swifts, A Modest Proposal, Look for irony in his
rational arguments.
An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids
goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that
flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's
going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything
blows up
In your face
A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a
knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic...don't you think
A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Jne9t8sHpUc
In your notes, write down 4 things
that are “ironic” based off of the
song.