Satire😀😡

Major weapons of the Satirist

      

                     In english literature, there are satirists like Dryden, Pope, Swift, Huxley and Orwell. All can be called primary satirists. Satire can be described as the literary art of derogating (insult) a subject by making a ridiculous and evoking towards it attitudes of amusement and indignation.Comedy evokes laughter mainly as an end in  itself, while satire derided, that it is uses laughter as a weapon against the corruption that exists in the society and outside of society. There should be a person or a group, a class, and institution, a nation or even against mankind.

1. Invective:-

                     The simplest weapon of satire is Invective, defined in dictionary as, "a violent attack in word". 

                    Invective is sometimes exchanged between angry motorists after a small accident, or between excited supportors at football match, Used by satirist is must of course be controlled by good taste and the law of libel. The latter can sometimes cause serious difficulties to a writer who attacks people who are alive and recognisable. The best example of this kind of satire are,

Aldous Huxley's "Point Counter Point" (1920)

Hilaiee Belloc's "Lines to a Don"

                   Nobody would pretend that this is satire at its most serious; it is too personal and too trival; the sort of thing that a clever schoolboy might write. But it has the spirit and energy which makes fine invective.

2. Irony:-

                 In comparison of invective, irony is less direct weapon of satirist, but not less effective. It is not easy to define irony exactly, but we can begin from the dictionary:

    "The expression of one's meaning by language of opposite or different tendency, especially the adoption of another's view or tone".

In ordinary conversation, irony often expressed by a tone of voice, like...

        "She is fine example of a faithful wife"

              In such a way as to mean what people say, exactly the opposite of what they seems yo mean.

      Jonathan Swift was one of the great masters of Irony.

3. Ability to amuse and entertain the reader:-

                  The most important of all satirist's weapon is his ability to amuse and entertain the reader. Without this, satire becomes merely tedious and bad tempered. Many of 20th century have been worried about possible misuses of science and technology by government. Historians, sociologists, journalists have written millions of words about it, but by far the most effective wornings have come from imaginative writers like H. G. Well, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. The book like Brave New World, Nineteen- Eighty-Four have been read by millions of people for pure enjoyment. 

          The best example of all is Gulliver's Travels, which one can easily read as a story without realising author's satirical intention at all. 

Conclusion:-

                     So, without Invective or Irony, one cannot make or write good satire. However, amusement and enjoyment are essential part of satire. All this weapons make the reader to read satire without any kind of disturbance and make him know about the Idea of Satire, which is laid behind the words.

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