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 satire because
readers identify the character's faults with their own fau....
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