Opening Agenda• Things to Get:

• VPA notebook• Things to Do:

• Opener: Satire Reading

• Class work: • 3)Swift• 4) Hogarth

• 3) Exit Slip• Satire Review

Music Listening ReviewOn the guided notes identify the composer, title, and

form using the terms given below.Composer:Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, BeethovenForm:Oratorio, Symphony, Sonata, Mass, Concerto, Fugue,

String QuartetTitle:Moonlight Sonata, Surprise Symphony, Messiah, La

Primavera, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Requiem Mass - Lacrimosa

Neoclassic Theater-SATIRE

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Satire Theater• sat·ire (săt'īr')

n. – A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked

through irony, derision, or wit. It aims to improve society by its humorous criticism.

– The branch of literature constituting such works. See synonyms at caricature.

– Changing a negative situation by making fun of it.• Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose

folly, vice, or stupidity.

Key and Peele (Modern Day Satire)

Answer the following question in your notes:

1. How is this clip satire?

2. Is it funny to you? Explain why.

3. Name one problem that this clip is trying to draw attention to in hopes of fixing.

3 Types of Satire1. Horatian:gentle, sympathetic satire where the subject is mildly made fun of with light joking.

2. Juvenalian:harsher form that uses contempt and condemnation toward the subject.

3. Menippean:chaotic, formless satire that attacks the structure of the world as well as its subject matter.

Purposes of SatireName two in your notes!

Satire at its heart is concerned with ethical reform. It attacks those institutions or individuals the satirist deems corrupt.

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 who can pick up on its moral clues. It is not a sermon.

Satire in general attacks types -- the fool, the boor, the adulterer, the proud -- rather than specific persons.

• While watching the following clip, identify three topics that are satirized.

• On your paper, complete the following chart to demonstrate your knowledge of satire.

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Question Title: pg. 133 in your VPA notebook

Satire Questions from the Adventures in the Human Spirit pg. 317

Write these answers in complete sentences on the handout provided.

1) _______ is the literary or artistic attitude that aims to improve society by its humorous criticism.

2) Eighteenth-century satirists hoped that laughing at social evils would help to _____ them.

3) Who spent his literary talents on efforts for social reform?4) In, A Modest Proposal, what did Swift suggest as a solution to hunger, poverty,

and overpopulation?5) Was he serious?6) How do you know?7) What was the name of Swift’s satiric masterpiece?8) Who is known for painting pictures of moral corruption?9) Who was the middle class public eager to laugh at?10)Name the series of paintings that, “mocked the bourgeois(upper class) social

climbers and degenerate nobles (wealthy landowners without morals) who married off their children for their own advantage.”

Hogarth – Marriage Contract

Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift• 1667-1745• Irish• Used literary talents for social reform• Works Include:

– “A Modest Proposal”– Highlights a way to solve hunger, overpopulation, and

poverty in Ireland with one solution.“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”

William Hogarth

• 1697-1764• English painter• Picture series of moral corruption• Audience was middle class public eager to laugh

at neighbors• A Rake’s Progress

– 8 paintings– shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell

Rakish

ADJECTIVEdashingly stylish: stylish in a dashing or sporty way

Synonyms: casual, confident, breezy, stylish, sporty, dashing, jaunty, dapper, debonair

Synonyms: dissolute, profligate, degenerate, louche, dubious, disreputable, depraved, lecherous, dissipated, raffish

Activity• Objective: – To demonstrate your knowledge of satire in

visual art• Assignment:

– In pairs, make a poster that analyzes A Rake’s Progress by completing the following: • Title your poster “Satire in A Rake’s Progress” • In pairs match the eight images to the correct

description.• Glue these images, with their descriptions, in order on

your poster• Summarize the rise and fall of Tom Rakewell citing

two images that show his rise; two that show his fall• Summative Statement: Why is this series a satire?

Poster Outline

Evaluation:Why is this series a satire?

Title of Poster: “Satire in A Rake’s Progress”

Summary: The Rise and Fall of Tom Rakewell

Picture Picture PicturePicture Picture Picture Picture Picture

Subject Subject Subject Subject Subject Subject Subject Subject

The Heir

• In the first painting, Tom has come into his fortune on the death of his miserly father. While the servants mourn, he is being measured for new clothes. He is also rejecting the hand of his pregnant fiancée, Sarah Young, whom he had promised to marry (she is holding his ring and her mother is holding his love letters). He will pay her off, but it is clear that she still loves him.

The Levée

• In the second painting, Tom is at his morning levée in London, attended by musicians and other hangers-on all dressed in expensive costumes. Surrounding Tom from left to right: a music master at a harpsichord, who was supposed to represent George Frideric Handel; a fencing master; a quarterstaff instructor; a dancing master with a violin; a landscape gardener Charles Bridgeman; an ex-soldier offering to be a bodyguard; a bugler of a fox hunt club. At lower right is a jockey with a silver trophy. The quarterstaff instructor looks disapprovingly on both the fencing and dancing masters. Both masters appear to be in the "French" style, which was a subject Hogarth loathed.

The Orgy

• The third painting depicts a wild party or orgy underway at a brothel. The whores are stealing the drunken Tom's watch. On the floor is a night watchman's staff and lantern. The scene takes place at the Rose Tavern, a famous brothel in Covent Garden. The prostitutes have black spots on their faces to cover syphilitic sores.

The Arrest

• In the fourth, he narrowly escapes arrest for debt by Welsh bailiffs (as signified by the leeks, a Welsh emblem, in their hats) as he travels in a sedan chair to a party at St. James's Palace to celebrate Queen Caroline's birthday on Saint David's Day (Saint David is the patron saint of Wales). On this occasion he is saved by the intervention of Sarah Young, the girl he had earlier rejected; she is apparently a dealer in millinery. In comic relief, a man filling a street lantern spills the oil on Tom's head. This is a sly reference to how blessings on a person were accompanied by oil poured on the head. In this case the "blessing" being the "saving" of Tom by Sarah, although Rakewell, being a rake, will not take the moral lesson to heart. In the engraved version, lighting flashes in the sky and a young pickpocket has just emptied Tom's pocket. The painting, however, shows the young thief stealing Tom's cane and has no lightning.

The Marriage

• In the fifth, Tom attempts to salvage his fortune by marrying a rich but aged and ugly old maid at St Marylebone. In the background Sarah arrives holding their child while her indignant mother struggles with a guest.

The Gaming House

• The sixth painting shows Tom pleading for the assistance of the Almighty in a gambling den at Soho's White Club after losing his "new fortune." Neither he nor the other obsessive gamblers seem to have noticed a fire breaking out behind them.

The Prison

• All is lost by the seventh painting, and Tom is incarcerated in the notorious Fleet debtor's prison. He ignores the distress of both his angry new (old) wife and faithful Sarah, who cannot help him this time. Both the beer-boy and the jailer demand money from him. Tom begins to go mad, as indicated by both a telescope for celestial observation poking out of the barred window and an alchemy experiment in the background. Besides Tom is a rejected play; another inmate is writing a pamphlet on how to solve the National debt. Above the bed at right is an apparatus for wings, which is more clearly seen in the engraved version at the left.

The Madhouse

• Finally insane and violent, in the eighth painting he ends his days in Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam), London's celebrated mental asylum. Only Sarah Young is there to comfort him, but Rakewell continues to ignore her. While some of the details in these pictures may appear disturbing to modern eyes, they were commonplace in Hogarth's day. For example, the fashionably dressed women in this last painting have come to the asylum as a social occasion, to be entertained by the bizarre antics of the inmates.

Exit Slip

• 1) Define satire.• 2) Name the three types of satire.• 3) Why was Swift’s proposal to eat Irish

children to curb the population boom satire?

• 4) Summarize why “The Heir” by Hogarth is considered satire.