Category: Satire

There is no one kind of humor: Numerous types of humor surface in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and The Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Graham Chapman. Looking at the texts The Importance of Being Earnest and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it is evident that humor is demonstrated…

Mark Twain satirizes controversial topics such as slavery, civilization, women roles by contrasting them to the natural state of people living in harmony without external social constraints as exemplified by the life Huck and Jim lead on the raft going with the flow of nature symbolized by the river.. He accomplished this through the eventful…

The Necklace is the most famous short story of Maupassant, and its theme has always been controversial. The most typical one is the theory of love and vanity, which holds that the author satirizes the vanity of the petty bourgeoisie through Mathilde’s tragedy. When Maupassant was writing, he used satire several times to satirize the…

The novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn created by Mark Twain and is based on a character/narrator named Huckleberry Finn. The novel starts with Huck in St. Petersburg, Missouri living with a woman who goes by Widow Douglas who adopted Huck and a woman named Miss Watson. The situation Huck is in becomes bad when his…

There are all kinds of fake news that exist around us and knowing what is reliable and true is important. Radio in the past has had many problems with fake news such as the Orson Welles famous broadcast. Newspapers have higher prints in the United States that include USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The…

Wilde succeeds in criticizing the Victorian era by using satire to show the reality of the society of the time. Throughout the movie, we can clearly see the characteristics of the Victorian period. For example, the desire and pressure of marriage for young women of the time and always focused on the financial side. The…

There are all kinds of fake news that exist around us and knowing what is reliable and true is important. Radio in the past has had many problems with fake news such as the Orson Welles famous broadcast. Newspapers have higher prints in the United States that include USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The…

Wilde succeeds in criticizing the Victorian era by using satire to show the reality of the society of the time. Throughout the movie, we can clearly see the characteristics of the Victorian period. For example, the desire and pressure of marriage for young women of the time and always focused on the financial side. The…

In the changeable world of politics the words are almost always do not relate to the particular actions. In this respect on the controversies of what politics do and how they act the satirical genre appears. Political satire is the field where the concrete remarks and actions of politics are analyzed by means of humor.…

The Importance of Being Earnest belongs to Oscar Wildes famous high-society comedies. The author, breaking the canons of entertainment theater, brings to the stage a satirical mockery of the mores of his contemporary bourgeois society and invites the audience to laugh at the surrounding reality. Wilde, a lover of passage and paradox, refused to take…