SATIRE

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SATIRE

• The First Amendment Guarantees Our Right to Satire

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Satire

• Satire is a literary or artistic work that
  ridicules its subject through the use of
  techniques such as exaggeration, reversal,
  incongruity, and/or parody in order to make a
  comment or criticism.

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Characteristics of Satire

• Criticism! It must contain either general
  criticism of humanity / human nature or specific
  criticism of an individual or group. Satire is
  concerned with ethical reform.
• It works to make vice laughable and/or
  reprehensible and thus bring social pressure on
  those who still engage in wrongdoing.
• It seeks a reform in public behavior, a shoring
  up of its audience's standards, or at the very
  least a wake-up call in an otherwise corrupt
  culture.
• Satire is often implicit and assumes readers can
  pick up on its moral clues.

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Characteristics of Satire

• Satire usually attacks types or stereotypes --
  the fool, the boor, the adulterer, the proud --
  rather than specific persons.
• If it does attack some by name, rather than
  hoping to reform these persons, it seeks to warn
  the public against approving of them.
• Satire uses humor. It is witty, ironic, and often
  exaggerated.
• Some kind of moral voice simply mocking or
  criticizing is not satire.
• Teenage Affluenza http//www.youtube.com/watch?vK
  FZz6ICzpjI

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Techniques of Satire Exaggeration

• to enlarge, increase, or represent something
  beyond normal bounds so that it becomes
  ridiculous, and its faults can be seen.
• the portrayal of something trivial or unimportant
  as very important, usually to emphasize its
  triviality

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Techniques of Satire - Incongruity

• to present things that are out of place or are
  absurd in relation to its surroundings
• can also relate to humor that sets up a person to
  expect one type of outcome, and is surprised by a
  completely different outcome
• Cartoons without captions often rely on
  incongruity (visual puns) to be humorous.

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Techniques of Satire - Reversal

• to present the opposite of the normal order (the
  order of events, hierarchical order, gender
  roles)
• or to present the opposite of what the author
  actually wants to happen in order to make a point

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Techniques of Satire - Parody

• To imitate the techniques and/or style of some
  person, place, or thing.
• Not Another Teen Movie
• Austin Powers
• Monty Python
• Scary Movie

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What is the Difference between Parody and Satire?

• Parody is a literary or artistic work that
  imitates the characteristic style of another work
  itself, the subject of the work, or the author of
  the work in order to ridicule, ironically comment
  on, or poke some affectionate fun at.
• It is a type of satire.
• Satire is a literary or artistic work in which
  human vice or folly is attacked through irony,
  derision, or wit.

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Satire in the MoviesShrek

• Find an example of
• Exaggeration
• Incongruity
• Reversal
• Parody

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Parody in Television Music

• Television
• Saturday Night Live
• MadTV
• Music
• Beautiful by James Blunt)
• (My Cubicle by Jym Britton)
• Youre Pitiful by Weird Al Yankovich)

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Satire in Music

• Dont Download This Song
• "Weird Al" Yankovic
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqscadsLdvV0feature
  related

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Parody in Fine Art
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Satire in Literature

• Harrison Bergeron
• by Kurt Vonnegut
• Read the short story
• Answer the questions
• completely
• Write the essay
• Give examples from
• the story

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Satire in Literature Harrison Bergeron
by Kurt Vonnegut Harrison Bergeron is a
political and social criticism of America. The
political system depicted in Vonneguts story is
distinctly American and founded on the principles
of egalitarianism, which holds that people should
be equal in every way. Equality is a beloved
principle enshrined in Americas constitution in
the phrase All men are created equal, but
Vonnegut suggests that the ideals of
egalitarianism can be dangerous if they are
interpreted too literally. If the goal of
equality is taken to its logical conclusion, we
may decide that people must be forced to be equal
to one another in their appearance, behavior, and
achievements.
http//www.amazon.com/2081-based-Vonneguts-22Harri
son-Bergeron-22/dp/B002Y2BDEE
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Parody in Advertising

• Dove Campaign for Real Beauty
• Dove Ad (http//www.youtube.com/watch?viYhCn0jf46
  U)
• and the parody
• Slob Evolution (http//www.youtube.com/watch?NR1
  v7-kSZsvBY-Afeatureendscreen)

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Satire in Cartoons

• First, look at the satirical details.
• Characters clothing, race, features, sex
• Setting time of day, location, season,
  signs/posters
• Dialogue what is being said versus what is being
  implied/tone of voice
• Second, try to determine the social comment the
  artist is trying to make.

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