Download - Satire vs. Parody

Satire vs. Parody

An MMA Showdown

04/22/23 Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 2

Parody

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

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.impawards.com/2006/posters/scary_movie_four.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.impawards.com/2006/scary_movie_four.html&usg=__K2CP_17D4Hw4Z1NEwFvwpHgPNIk=&h=755&w=510&sz=52&hl=en&start=9&tbnid=v_AswdpMKlxiIM:&tbnh=142&tbnw=96&prev=/images?q=scary+movie&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.impawards.com/2003/posters/scary_movie_three_ver4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.impawards.com/2003/winner_bestfunnytagline.html&usg=__EJrrfGcXzRKBVWy-GGN-5b1hmH0=&h=755&w=505&sz=91&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=_-ZlJBeOp7sr9M:&tbnh=142&tbnw=95&prev=/images?q=scary+movie&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off


Parody

• TV, movies, comics, books, etc.


Satire

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


Satire

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

• Stories, Novels, Poems, Songs


So which is the following?


Satire• Famous example:

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


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”).


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.


Satire• Most recent satire has been Juvenalian to the

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

Simpsons, Family Guy.


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)


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!

Download - Satire vs. Parody

Top Related