Satire

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Satireis a figure in art or writing which ridicule either a person , authorities , or an institution , often through the use of humour . Satire can either be in painting , plays , script , song , TV or movies . It too is used to stereotype people .

Irony was used long ago . It exist a Latin word , though the plays of Aristophanes are often called satirical . Satire was widely known in Elizabethan times . Swift expend it in his scriptGulliver ‘s Travelsto create fun of mass ’ s stupidity . Works likeThe Beggar ’ s Opera( 1728 ) use satire to present how silly the politician of the time make up . The German playwright Bertolt Brecht use a band of satire , as make Peter Cook . Jon Stewart and other comedian use it frequently . A modern lesson of satire is the American cartoonSouth Park.

Satire often show out ironical or bad things that powerful mass cost doing . Its adjective issatirical.

Satire Media

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  1872 version ofPunch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour , including a great mass of satire of the contemporary , social , and political scene

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  A irony by tomocking the lack of interest from Emperor Pedro II of Brazil in politics toward the goal of his reign

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  “ Le irony e l’epistole di Q. Orazio Flacco ” , print in 1814
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  prove a cat guard geese ,100 .1120 BC, Egypt

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  Figured ostracon show a guy waiting on a mouse , Egypt

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  “ “ , the third floor in Geoffrey Chaucer ‘sThe Canterbury Tales, contains the first appearance in English literature of a mutual humorous device across all form of media , the comedic usage of dialect .

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  Pieter Bruegel ‘s 1568 satirical painting

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  ‘ A Welch wedding ‘ satirical cartoonc .1780

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  A Victorian satirical sketch picture a gentleman ‘s donkey race in 1852

1872 edition ofPunch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular wit , include a great deal of satire of the present-day , social , and political view

A irony by tomock the lack of interest from Emperor Pedro II of Brazil in politics toward the goal of his reign

showing a cat guarding geese ,100 .1120 BC, Egypt

Figured ostracon indicate a cat waiting on a mouse , Egypt

“ “ , the third floor in Geoffrey Chaucer ‘sThe Canterbury Tales, contains the first appearance in English literature of a common humorous device across all forms of media , the comedic role of dialect .

Pieter Bruegel ‘s 1568 satirical picture

A Victorian satirical sketch depicting a gentleman ‘s donkey race in 1852

Related pages

• Black comedy
• Caricature
• Cartoon
• Wit
• Satire
• Parody

Early websites

• MAD Magazine
• The Onion