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How is satire used in these two texts to help inform the reader about what is wrong with the society at the time? Provide specific examples and show how using humour can be successful means for dealing with more serious issues.
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How is satire used in these two texts to help inform the reader about what is wrong with the society at the time? Provide specific examples and show how using humour can be successful means for dealing with more serious issues. Satire is when you are making a mockery of someone who is rich, powerful and fashionable. It serves the purpose of making humour out of something that is more serious. It is used quite frequently throughout both texts. On those occasions satire was used I think it was used successfully because it gives the reader an accurate insight onto how the writer feels about the particular people and society he is writing about. Satire found in both "Gulliver's Travels" by J.Swift and in "Blackadder the III" by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton is fairly similar to one another in that they both deal with politics and how the country is...
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