Satire

"Satire is a glass that a bystander usually finds the face of everyone, but they are themselves" (Swift). As Jonathan Swift clearly emphasizes, these holders aim to recognize a social or political dilemma through guiding the satirical story. In some satirical works, the use of absurd and blatant exaggeration, like Swift's own 'discreet proposal', aims to attract viewers to the social state of the poor. Even such direct irony has another meaning.

Satire is as old as democracy. The two hold hand in hand. The earliest irony came from Aristophanes, and there is evidence that it affected public opinion and politics in democracy in ancient Athens. Since then, through the pioneers of manga like Hogarth, Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshank, subtle excavation by Shakespeare and Jonathan Swift and satirical joke, the sarcasm penetrated into the development of Western democracy. In Britain in the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher's post was hit by public opinion polls, strikes by miners, depression, a massive increase in homeless and unemployment, and many other intense social experiences. Politics is polarized, there is a gap of wrath on the left and right. At the time, this primitive political environment was bored by programs composed of celebrities such as images of the same primitive and cut-off spits, famous politicians and grotesque bubble puppet theater.

Menippean is not as ironic as Juvenalian and Horatian, but it is the oldest satire type. Menippean makes people bored with the target mentality or the world view, not a specific person. Horatian and Menippean's caricatures have considerable overlap, as these two are not specific people, they often target people's stupidity and bad habits. Satire usually relies on other literary devices to help it achieve its effect. Below is a list of some of the most common devices satirers use to ridicule themes. Keep in mind that these devices are not a specific kind of sarcasm - they are just devices that are used frequently as part of a satire (device) or satire (type)