Essay Archive - Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich": Satire
Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich": Satire
Jonathan Swift has suggested that "Satire is a sort of Glass, wherein
Beholders do generally discover every body's Face their own; which is the chief
reason...that so few are offended with it." Richard Garnett suggests that,
"Without humour, satire is invictive; without literary form, [and] it is mere
clownish jeering." (Encyclopaedia Britannica 14th ed. vol. 20 p. 5). Whereas
Swift's statement suggests that people are not offended by sati....
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